On 16/03/2012 4:01 PM, Invisible wrote:
> On 16/03/2012 03:42 PM, Warp wrote:
>
>> Writing a program that does something mundane isn't usually considered
>> "hacking".
>
> I don't know. People seem to use the phrase "I was hacking on XYZ" to
> mean the same thing is "I was working on the source code for XYZ",
> without any particular requirement that the code or the coding activity
> is anything remarkable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29#Hacker_definition_controversy

A hack is also the cracked skin that you can get on your fingers due to 
cold.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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