Ben Finney, 20.04.2011 02:06:
Dan Stromberg writes:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:03 PM, geremy condra wrote:
When you say 'hacking', you mean.... ?
Presumably he meant the real meaning of the word, not what the press
made up and ran with.
To be fair, the press already had its own pejorative meaning of “hack”
before the engineering and computing term
Not anywhere outside of the English language that I'm aware of, though. In
German, it's a computing-only term that's used in both contexts by those
who understand why the pointer is moving over the screen when moving the
mouse, and almost exclusively in a bad context by those who write news
paper articles (and, consequently, by those who innocently read them).
Stefan
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