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Re:Education of a Programmer by sbuttgereit on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:32AM (#14020606)
I'll usually call some technology thing "magic" when I mean to say that something is useful to me, but that its usefulness to me doesn't require me to understand it at any deep level (or even shallow level sometimes). Wifi is kind of like that: very useful to me, I use it every day... have almost no understanding of the ins/outs... it's PFM (pure fucking magic) to me. And I don't have much interest in learning about it more than than I know.... I've got other fish to fry. Same thing about my car's motor: I only know the most theoretical background of internal combustion engines... have me diagnose an engine problem? Ha! Everything in front of the firewall and under the hood may as well been conjured by Merlin himself.

Life is short. I spend it miserly on those things I have to or want to care about and wifi and car engines aren't those things (now).

Re:Education of a Programmer by suyash on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:09AM (#14020912)
There is no excuse for not to understand the so called 'magic' even at a very superficial level. There are tons of blogs, videos, how to articles, books etc. Just search on YouTube and I am sure you will understand most of anything in just a few minutes.
Re:Education of a Programmer by adrianN on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:37AM (#14021174)
The excuse is that there are literally billions of things that one could thrive to understand at least superficially, but the typical human life has only 4500 weeks.
Re:Education of a Programmer by barsonme on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:39AM (#14020990)
entirely depends on the definition of "understand".

superficial understanding you'll forget in a couple weeks? sure. but nothing more, unless you're some sort of savant.