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I dunno, I see "hacking" as poking at something without a great understanding or a strict methodology. In the case of "hacking a system", this would include probing the ports of a system to see what's open and vulnerable. In the case of "hacking away at some code", it's cutting corners and using trial and error rather than having a clear plan in mind. "Hacking code", in my mind, is about just getting it to work and worrying about finesse later.
Example: A few builds later, the problem had been fixed. I assumed that someone had gone into the code, found the cause, and fixed the fault that caused the file corruption. Wrong. My hack was simply rolled into the code base. That is the danger of hacking code: temporary fixes often become permanant.
-Logan "What do I want? I'm an American. I want more." In reply to Re: Fighting the denigration of hacking
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