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Microsoft is perfectly happy, while proclaiming openness and interoperability, to find a company in dire financial straits and then threaten it with expensive legal action over what any self-respecting programmer would identify as a hackish kludge - something that advances the art of computer software not one bit.

ZDNet UK Highlights 2009

However, even at his most "hackish" style Kuttner manages to be immensely entertaining.

Rare and Beautiful Fantasy Gems by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner 2008

In this "hackish" hit piece on capitalism, they blamed the great depression and the current financial crisis on republicans and deregulation.

Short Papers on the Financial Crisis, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Pedestrian, mediocre, workman-like are all adjectives I could use, with some descent into being 'hackish'.

REVIEW: Saga of Seven Suns, Books I and II 2004

Is this simply a case of being easier to address an issue with a "hackish" approach, or is the usb-modeswitch actually the right way to go?

Planet Ubuntu Timo Jyrinki 2010

Is this simply a case of being easier to address an issue with a "hackish" approach, or is the usb-modeswitch actually the right way to go?

Planet Ubuntu 2010

Sure, it looks more "hackish", but that's not what we are referring to.

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Why is that a pretty hackish (not "hacky") sentence?

Movie Review: Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer is Terrible (This Review Includes an Exclusive Note from Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghost) | /Film 2010

Jane Galt ably defends my co-blogger against the charge of hackdom, and raises an important challenge in the process: If the word "hack" has never come out of your lips (or keyboard) in public reference to someone on your own side, you have no right to use it about anyone; for your tolerance or your ideological compatriots, and more often, your approbation for their less-hackish work, has made their guilt yours.

The Anti-Hack, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I appreciate that Matthew is doing his utmost to be as hackish as possible in this post, but a little thought should be put into his post even where they are intended to be hackish.

Matthew Yglesias » The Hypocrisy of Stimulus Hypocrites 2010