(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast). || (computing) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (malicious user who breaks into computer systems).
There is a rich, hackerish tradition in the computer world of making any new computer or video game system emulate those that came before it.
The hackerish look of dot-matrix fonts on screens and printers has partially prevented full acceptance of computers as tools for a literate public.
Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers. || (computing) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds. || (computing) Characteristic of hackers.
The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.
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.
Like a hack; amateurish. || (Geordie) Filthy or totally dirty. || (computing) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds. || (口语) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.
It’s nice to see someone else struggle with the hacky css and obvious formatting problems.
Also, the phones socket was at 90 degrees to the phone, so it wouldn’t drop into a pocket and never worked well. A hacky mess.
It’s a grotesque and hacky travesty of application compatibility, but there you go.
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‘outlawing _hacking_ has not stopped it’
