Got my head stuck ...

[dglenn]

Got my head quite thoroughly stuck in a computer problem/project and lost track of a) time, b) my own fatigue level, c) the temperature, d) my own hunger. Yah, the short translation is that I was "in hack mode", but the way my body is, that's gonna cost me later. And there was some place else I'd really intended to be today. Oops.

But I've got

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[siderea]

Well, making is making, whether art or tech. I'm not sure that what differentiates art from tech is what it feels like to make 'em.

That said, I'm not about to venture an opinion as to what differentiates art from tech, period. ("When you leave it out in the rain, tech is still there and art isn't", yeah, yeah, yeah.)

[merle_]

I am certainly not an "artsy/tech hybrid" as ohiblaher defined it. I do not have an "artistic" bone in my body. I can draw.. a cube. A tree? Way beyond me.

But I do feel some that programming, the interesting parts, feel like art/creation. Whether it can be reused, or shown off, matters not: the act of creation is what (to me) causes inner joy.

But I cannot answer as a "programmer in general, not just a hacker", as I cannot fathom the former without the latter. It's a way of life. There are definitely programmers who do not particularly care about their output, but that sort of thing is true in most occupations... and such people are not great data points...