I'm struggling with the following question for my YC application:<p>'Please tell us about the time you, dirkdeman, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.'<p>It must be the language barrier, but I have no grasp of the meaning of 'hacking a non-computer system'. What does this mean? A 'system' like taxes, governement, school or a company you work for? Or is it something more trivial, like making a beer cooler out of Lego? Does anyone has an example of this to put me in the right direction?
It's about gaming the system, or using the rules to your advantage in a way that they weren't intended for.<p>For example - you might collect Air Miles and, having worked out that a particular promotion at the supermarket was worth more in miles than the product cost, got a first class round-the-world flight for less than an economy ticket to the next town.