[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Automagically (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/5/2010 2:03:23 AM EDT
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"The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. Just because you're too stupid/unwilling/uninterested understand doesn't mean it involved magic spells.
When I get in my car and accelerate, it shifts gears without me doing anything, autoMATICALLY. I may not know all of how, or even why, it happens, but I'm sure there isn't a gobin with a magic want making it happen "automagically". Where I work, the term "automagically" is used exclusively; I haven't heard anyone say "automatic" since I bought my last car, but "automagic" happens several times a day. Does this term piss anyone else off? |
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"The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. Just because you're too stupid/unwilling/uninterested understand doesn't mean it involved magic spells. When I get in my car and accelerate, it shifts gears without me doing anything, autoMATICALLY. I may not know all of how, or even why, it happens, but I'm sure there isn't a gobin with a magic want making it happen "automagically". Where I work, the term "automagically" is used exclusively; I haven't heard anyone say "automatic" since I bought my last car, but "automagic" happens several times a day. Does this term piss anyone else off? Brain sells? |
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"The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. Just because you're too stupid/unwilling/uninterested understand doesn't mean it involved magic spells. When I get in my car and accelerate, it shifts gears without me doing anything, autoMATICALLY. I may not know all of how, or even why, it happens, but I'm sure there isn't a gobin with a magic want making it happen "automagically". Where I work, the term "automagically" is used exclusively; I haven't heard anyone say "automatic" since I bought my last car, but "automagic" happens several times a day. Does this term piss anyone else off? Brain sells? My eyes automagically went right to this. |
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"The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. Just because you're too stupid/unwilling/uninterested understand doesn't mean it involved magic spells. When I get in my car and accelerate, it shifts gears without me doing anything, autoMATICALLY. I may not know all of how, or even why, it happens, but I'm sure there isn't a gobin with a magic want making it happen "automagically". Where I work, the term "automagically" is used exclusively; I haven't heard anyone say "automatic" since I bought my last car, but "automagic" happens several times a day. Does this term piss anyone else off? Not really. A lot of programmers use this term, even when we know why everything is happening. |
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"The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. Just because you're too stupid/unwilling/uninterested understand doesn't mean it involved magic spells. When I get in my car and accelerate, it shifts gears without me doing anything, autoMATICALLY. I may not know all of how, or even why, it happens, but I'm sure there isn't a gobin with a magic want making it happen "automagically". Where I work, the term "automagically" is used exclusively; I haven't heard anyone say "automatic" since I bought my last car, but "automagic" happens several times a day. Does this term piss anyone else off? Not really. A lot of programmers use this term, even when we know why everything is happening. ^ this. it's a way of emphasizing encapsulation. |
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"The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. You lie! |
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) "Automagically" works me, but there's a certain time and place for it. It isn't a replacement for automatically. |
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Quoted: Quoted: "The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. Just because you're too stupid/unwilling/uninterested understand doesn't mean it involved magic spells. When I get in my car and accelerate, it shifts gears without me doing anything, autoMATICALLY. I may not know all of how, or even why, it happens, but I'm sure there isn't a gobin with a magic want making it happen "automagically". Where I work, the term "automagically" is used exclusively; I haven't heard anyone say "automatic" since I bought my last car, but "automagic" happens several times a day. Does this term piss anyone else off? Brain sells?  |
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"The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. Just because you're too stupid/unwilling/uninterested understand doesn't mean it involved magic spells. When I get in my car and accelerate, it shifts gears without me doing anything, autoMATICALLY. I may not know all of how, or even why, it happens, but I'm sure there isn't a gobin with a magic want making it happen "automagically". Where I work, the term "automagically" is used exclusively; I haven't heard anyone say "automatic" since I bought my last car, but "automagic" happens several times a day. Does this term piss anyone else off? Brain sells? I think your being to hard on the pour guy. He's just chalk-full of flustration and prolly new better. |
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My peers and I use the term extensively when dealing with those with weak hack-fu.
From the Jargon File: automagically: adv.
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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Technical artists and software developers love that word when they're talking with the art team (context: video game development).
Usually because whatever they're talking about involves a shitload of calculus or hundreds of lines of code that the artists won't understand and aren't paid to care about anyway. They know it's programmed and complicated but the details aren't important. You push the button and it does what you want it to do. So, "autoMAGIC!ally." |
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My peers and I use the term extensively when dealing with those with weak hack-fu. From the Jargon File: automagically: adv.
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. They used to advertise wives?? |
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Quoted: "The user does XXXX, then automagically YYYYY happens". Not "autoMATICALLY", but "autoMAGICALLY". It's not really magic though, as anyone with more than two brain sells can tell. There's no warlocks, sorcerors, goblins, trolls, fairies, or god damn fucking pixie dust behind your computer that makes it happen, just a SQL query written by the programmer in the next cube over. Just because you're too stupid/unwilling/uninterested understand doesn't mean it involved magic spells. When I get in my car and accelerate, it shifts gears without me doing anything, autoMATICALLY. I may not know all of how, or even why, it happens, but I'm sure there isn't a gobin with a magic want making it happen "automagically". Where I work, the term "automagically" is used exclusively; I haven't heard anyone say "automatic" since I bought my last car, but "automagic" happens several times a day. Does this term piss anyone else off? My turbocharger automagically boosts horsepower. I open up the throttle, the exhaust flows, and witchcraft occurs. |
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http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/mditt8671/good-news-everyone.jpg .... AUTOMAGICALLY!! 
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My peers and I use the term extensively when dealing with those with weak hack-fu. From the Jargon File: automagically: adv.
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. They used to advertise wives??
I am quite glad I wasn't drinking anything just now. |