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Only to have it co-opted to mean doing anything. "Hey, I just hacked my resume together in Microsoft Word!", "I just hacked dinner together with some pans and some food!", "That was a great hack putting together that email!"

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Bah, they can have the verb. It's the noun, 'hacker', that doesn't have a satisfactory equivalent, IMO.

I'd like to verb to stay linked to the name too. I hacked that app in one night, sounds pretty good to me. Blame it on Hollywood.

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