But what if my favorite way of hacking, what makes me feel amazing is something more like Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Development (clojure.blip.tv/file/4457042

But what if my favorite way of hacking, what makes me feel amazing is something more like Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Development (clojure.blip.tv/file/4457042/)? Of course I don't get a chance to do this as much as I'd like at my day job. Still, some of my most satisfying programming experience has been when I've spent days researching and thinking about a problem, had a moment of enlightenment, and wrote 200 lines of beautifully simple code that strikes at the heart of the problem. That makes me feel like a programming god. And I'd argue the result is somewhat better than "innocently" hammering out reams of code without taking time to really consider it.