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Hacking - Art or Science?
An anonymous reader asks: "The argument regarding the principle nature of hacking - be it an art or a science is not a new one. This paper hopes to discuss both the meaning of the term 'hack' and the underlying arguments for it being defined as an art or a science, in reference to the base principles and basic methodologies of the discipline. So in your opinion, is hacking art or science?"
It's philosophy. :)
Perhaps a good term to some up the meaning of "hacking" is "tinkering".
I think writing is an art.
When I was coding, someone brought up that the best programmers were people with art backgrounds. After that, whenever a bug was discovered in my code, I would respond with "I code what I feel and I was feeling shitty that day!"
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
It's more like 4R7.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Hmmm... Well, on the one hand, it takes precise timing and an intuitive understanding of physics to keep the sack in the air. On the other hand, if you do it right, it looks a lot like a dance. :)