Debugging. Hacking is stepping into a program's skin. It's spinning your laptop around to turn into an effect what someone just blurted out in conversation abou

Debugging. Hacking is stepping into a program's skin. It's spinning your laptop around to turn into an effect what someone just blurted out in conversation about what the app should do. Hacking is looking at 3D view in FF and saying "cool." Not "why?" Hacking is rewriting the same if statement knowing full well the profiler will tell you the story. Hacking is forever hoping the damn computer will do what you want, or feel, rather than what you tell it. Hacking is forever refactoring like a kid smacking piano keys until 4am because you know that daylight shit is just tedium and yet another lunch with essentially the same ingredients. It is living to the fullest extent of one's own stupidity, and thriving on the next crushing blow to your ego. Hacking is ego death.