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ha ha only serious [from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, `Ha Ha Only Kidding'] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse.
App...
hack [very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.
2. n....
hack attack n. [poss. by analogy with `Big Mac Attack' from ads for the McDonald's fast-food chai
he variant `big hack attack' is reported] Nearly synonymous with hacking run, though th...
hack mode n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course.
2....
hack on vt. [very common] To hack; implies that the subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as opposed to something one might hack up.
hack together vt. [common] To throw something together so it will work.
Unlike `kluge together' or cruft together, this does not necessarily have negative connotations....
hack up vt. To hack, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
Contrast this with hack on. To `hack up on' implies a quick-and-dirty modification to an e...
hack value n. Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack.
For example, MacLISP had ...
hacked off adj.
hacked up adj. Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass).
Not all programs that are hacked become...

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