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hackish
adj 3
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2VERB + HACKISH
provide
HACKISH + NOUN
solution, solutions
Definitions
adj
1
Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.
2
Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're out of that thicket for now, but only in a hackish sort of way. We trickle articles into inews and have terminated one of our neighbors. The other two possibilities (news batching and uucp sub-dirs) were considered and will probably be adopted at some point.
A hackish solution is to use code switching, a technique of replacing a byte with a sequence of bytes headed by a special control character.
3
Characteristic of hackers.
hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor
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Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're
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A hackish solution is to use code switching, a technique of replacing a byte with a sequence of bytes headed by a special control character.
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The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.
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