tinkering

Perl brings me back to the days of my Pentium 2, tinkering about with my primitive IRC bots.

Were they just tinkering or did they have an alternative theory from which they could deduce it might work?

I was tinkering with DNS tunneling for free mobile internet, and found that TCP port 53 was apparently unfettered.

Although maybe if I was smart I'd order those $500 tablets and start tinkering with them.

For personal tinkering, that's great (as long as you don't mind running on Windows, which is no longer the case with most web developers these days).

I have followed the original instructions and after a couple days of tinkering around it is now my go-to service for gaming.

As someone else who's also built a cluster of Pi 2s, I would agree that the primary purpose is education and fun/tinkering, not performance.

It's meant to be super simple for tinkering.

If you are using Visual Studio professionally, rather than for your own personal educational tinkering, then you're only eligible for Community if your company has less than $1 million in revenue.

I have deadlines, and for me, tinkering with my editor is very much a hobbyist thing (whereas I'd prefer to be writing actual code in my free time).

(think: much worse than most) I'm a calm person but I needed serious gmail filter tinkering to catch all those we-want-you-to-join-or-feel-bad emails.

Which would be less important, as mobile eclipses desktop, if mobile environments included a standard, bundled interpreter that users could easily access for tinkering, but that's very much not the case.

We should probably not trust this "lab tinkering" because it's so new - nature already figured everything out already.

Thus the tinkering hostility comes from propping up DRM under the guise of "security".

Carmageddon was my first exposure to what I would call "tinkering" with games.

You can replace "pharmaceutical" with any medical technology that is going to require a fair amount of original research and further tinkering in the laboratory to obtain the first working prototypes and the result is much the same.