Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for April 29, 2014

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    Randy B Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Verne’s not a true Belieber.

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    sottwell  over 10 years ago

    Comes from hackney carriages, used as taxis in horse-and-buggy days, horrible working conditions for both man and horse. So a person who works long hours at something tedious and meaningless became a “hack”, and “hacker” came to be used to refer to a computer programmer who so loved programming that he was almost exclusively focused on programming for long hours. Then it finally morphed into the negative connotation that it has now.

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    bubbareb  over 10 years ago

    Hackers wear capes? Are they superheroes in disguise, working to save us all from the coming robot-zombie apocalypse?

    (Just trying to give Lewis and Fry material to work with here.)

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    dogday Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Verne, you’ve been seen with that hopeless schlemiel Bieber; it’s all over. Just end it now.

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    Boots at the Boar Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I would add that the hack driver has more in common with the “to hook” lineage of hack because of the s-hooks (those flimsy skeuomorphic things you see on funeral hearses once had a function) needed by the driver.

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