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Re:Typing the technical interview by eckza on Monday April 10, 2017 @03:14PM (#14081648)
I always like to kindly remind people that sufficiently-advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
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Re:Typing the technical interview by kybernetikos on Monday April 10, 2017 @03:54PM (#14081978)
My favourite casting of this is 'any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced'.
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Re:Typing the technical interview by kabdib on Monday April 10, 2017 @09:16PM (#14084097)
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is insufficiently documented."

[I think I coined this one, back in the day. But I was probably preceded by someone even more damaged]

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Re:Typing the technical interview by fasquoika on Monday April 10, 2017 @09:31PM (#14084160)
And then we come full circle back to heavy wizardry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(programming)#Variants
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