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I use this all the time (of course with one eyebrow raised ironically :-\ )
CCC solved so far: 2 (including a Hard One!) 37!?!! - Randall, Clerks
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I use this all the time (of course with one eyebrow raised ironically :-\ )
CCC solved so far: 2 (including a Hard One!) 37!?!! - Randall, Clerks
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My College Professors also loved this word. Another one they used: P.F.M.: Pure F'in Magic :laugh:
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This isn't a buzzword. It's more of an anti-buzzword. And it already has a much better definition from the Jargon File (aka Hacker's Dictionary) Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. “The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable.” This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.
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This isn't a buzzword. It's more of an anti-buzzword. And it already has a much better definition from the Jargon File (aka Hacker's Dictionary) Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. “The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable.” This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.
Wow you sure have a lot of knowledge on this subject. Any idea about the origin of: Pure Freak'in Magic or PFM for short. My wave optics professor loved to use this when he would describe 1/4 wave magic, again magic. It's just that he didn't want to delve into quantum mechanics to show us what what really happening.... And yes, light can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, but only when it is incident upon a 'pilicial' a 1/4 wave obstruction of the incident wavelength. Now we just need to make them in fiber and wrap them around the world and talk to the future. :laugh:
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!