What is a hack

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Monday December 13, 2010

The term hack can often be misunderstood. In most cases to hack something is to

create a work-around

with it or MacGyver it to work the way you want it to. The same works when you use

hack as a computer term

. Hacking doesn't always mean to expertly

manipulate software

. Sometimes it just means to

tweak applications

to your liking.

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Show Notes

- When you get something to work in a way that wasn't intended, you've performed a hack.

- When the folks in Houston got round filters to work with square pipes on Apollo 13, that was a hack.

- They made the system work in a way that had not been originally planned.

- Most of us come up with little hacks or work-arounds all the time, we just don't think of them as such.

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