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Re:Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby by ujal on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:23PM (#15942867)
Engineering can be creative but most of the time it is not. We are mostly applying existing solutions to well known problems.
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Re:Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby by scottLobster on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:56PM (#15943020)
And the ideal application of those existing solutions often requires creativity to mate them to the problem domain.

Is an artist not creative if they use pre-mixed paint?

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Re:Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby by bdibs on Saturday December 16, 2017 @07:19PM (#15943097)
A more apt analogy would be asking if an artist isn't creative because they put a jigsaw puzzle together.
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Re:Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby by jjeaff on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:22AM (#15944489)
A jigsaw puzzle goes together only one way. Many engineering problems can be solved in infinitely diverse and creative and unique ways.
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Re:Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby by convolvatron on Saturday December 16, 2017 @08:53PM (#15943496)
put the jigsaw together by haphazardly cutting off all the tabs that wouldn't lie flat and filling in all the empty spaces with glue
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Re:Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby by ujal on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:12PM (#15944050)
That is called learning and is indeed a creative process.
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