Philip Greenspun on how Harvard Business School has bastardized the term “hacking” – “As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws.“
Aside
It would have been nice to have heard Alex’s perspective on the issue (sorry, I just think it’s really cool to read something from one of the primary authors of ACS), but I’m still glad to be one of the many people dragging down the reputation of coders with my crap! 🙂 And now, I’m off to party!
I think Alex would have said something along the lines of “woof,” so unless you’re secretly a dog, Sean, I don’t think it’d be very constructive.
Wait, are you a dog?