Nor should he, IMO. Hacky workarounds are almost always a terrible idea that will bite you in the ass someday.
But yeah, for production quality software hacks are the very last resort. It's still fun and enlightening to know them, though.
Yeah, they're ugly, but in practice the choice isn't between clean and hacky; it's between shipping and not shipping. Real-world software runs on constraints, not ideals.
Only fix was to write a custom touch screen event handler that overrides the built in one by Microsoft.
I would love to have a _proper method_ and pull out my _hacky_ method that prevents the removal of a person's limb.