Too Long; Didn't Read
The origins of the term “<a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/hack" target="_blank">hack</a>” are unusually rich and expansive. Originally, it was a wholly pejorative term, meaning to work haphazardly. When people called you a “talentless hack,” it meant that you were wholly unoriginal, cobbling together mediocre performance from the scraps of others’ work.