Maybe it would help if we taboo art. What do you mean with the term when ballet and playing the piano are art but the kind of hacking you find at a hackerspace isn't?
I was not, in fact, using the term in such a way, but you failed to notice this! This is cliché-rounding.
I was not, in fact, using the term in such a way, but you failed to notice this!
The first line of your post is a quote about teaching ballet and piano to children as opposed to the kind of hacking background that Wai Dai has. Why use the term "art" when you don't mean ballet and piano, without making it explicit that you don't mean it?
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