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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:06:27 +1000, Ben Finney
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> To be fair, the press already had its own pejorative meaning of “hack”
> before the engineering and computing term, so the association was
> probably inevitable.
>
	Comes from all the hack writers they hire <G>
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