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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hack</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html" title="ha ha only serious"/><link rel="next" href="hack-attack.html" title="hack attack"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hack</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="hack-attack.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hack"/><dt xmlns="" id="hack"><b>hack</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Originally, a quick job
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that produces what is needed, but not well. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> An incredibly good, and
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perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is
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needed. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To bear emotionally or
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physically. “<span class="quote">I can't hack this heat!</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To work on something
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(typically a program). In an immediate sense: “<span class="quote">What are you
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doing?</span>” “<span class="quote">I'm hacking TECO.</span>” In a general
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(time-extended) sense: “<span class="quote">What do you do around here?</span>” “<span class="quote">I
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hack TECO.</span>” More generally, “<span class="quote">I hack <span class="firstterm">foo</span></span>” is roughly equivalent to
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“<span class="quote"><span class="firstterm">foo</span> is my major interest (or
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project)</span>”. “<span class="quote">I hack solid-state physics.</span>” See
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<a href="Hacking-X-for-Y.html"><i class="glossterm">Hacking X for Y</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 5. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To pull a prank on. See
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sense 2 and <a href="hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a> (sense 5). </p></dd><dd><p> 6. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To interact with a
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computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way.
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“<span class="quote">Whatcha up to?</span>” “<span class="quote">Oh, just hacking.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 7. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Short for
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<a href="hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 8. See <a href="../N/nethack.html"><i class="glossterm">nethack</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 9. [MIT] <span class="grammar">v.</span> To explore the
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basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional
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building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this is
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usually performed at educational institutions) the Campus Police. This
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activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games
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such as Dungeons and Dragons and <a href="../Z/Zork.html"><i class="glossterm">Zork</i></a>. See also
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<a href="../V/vadding.html"><i class="glossterm">vadding</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Constructions on this term abound. They include <span class="firstterm">happy hacking</span> (a farewell), <span class="firstterm">how's hacking?</span> (a friendly greeting among
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hackers) and <span class="firstterm">hack, hack</span> (a fairly
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content-free but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell).
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For more on this totipotent term see <i class="citetitle">
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<a href="../meaning-of-hack.html" title="The Meaning of ‘Hack’">The Meaning of Hack</a></i>. See also <a href="../N/neat-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">neat hack</i></a>,
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<a href="../R/real-hack.html"><i class="glossterm">real hack</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ha-ha-only-serious.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="hack-attack.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ha ha only serious<75></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>hack attack</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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