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 Definitions for Hacking X for Y: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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Hacking X for Y n. [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information
which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the
INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out
various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined
into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g.,
`"Hacking perceptrons for Minsky"'). This form of description became
traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more
general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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Hacking X for Y
[ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS
made publicly available about each user. This information
(the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could
fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were
always combined into a project description of the form
"Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky"").
This form of description became traditional and has since been
carried over to other systems with more general facilities for
self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
[Jargon File]
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