Re:Understanding the Node.js Event Loop
by z1mm32m4n on Saturday June 27, 2015 @05:54PM
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If all occurrences of "this is [magic]" are treated as "this is [sufficiently complicated internally and beyond the scope of this post]," then what's the difference? The former makes for a point that's expressed more succinctly and eloquently at little real loss.
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I went and looked in the Oxford English Dictionary and did not find your definition of magic there. http://www.oed.com/search?searchType=dictionary&q=magic&_sea...
Re:Understanding the Node.js Event Loop
by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd on Saturday June 27, 2015 @06:56PM
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Definition 2a seems related: "Producing [...] remarkable results, like those attributed to magic [...]; effecting or permitting change, success, etc., as if by magic."
Also the 'magic box'.
The Urban Dictionary (the place where I look for colloquialisms) has this definition: "with or through complexity either spurios to the contemproary context or to long to be reasonable or desired of explanation". [1]
1: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=magic&defid=9...