From my limited experience, I'd say most hacking is using the results from research to get shit done - Not that hacking isn't great, its just not generally rese

From my limited experience, I'd say most hacking is using the results from research to get shit done - Not that hacking isn't great, its just not generally research. However, it'd be pretty hard to "hack" a new filesystem without a research component. But designing a website doesn't usually involve much research (learning a framework isn't research in the sense i'm trying to describe). Designing a new web framework could be research because you need to test different ways of doing things and people might use your results. Where normal design and normal engineering turn into research isn't the easiest thing to define. Man, this comment isn't working out as well as I'd hoped.