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]
Nearby terms:
hacker ethic « hacker humour « hacking run « Hacking X
for Y » Hackintosh » hackish » hackishness
