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Been using automagically for years in IT stuff, have you really only just heard it?

[quote=mogrim said]Been using automagically for years in IT stuff, have you really only just heard it?

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Get wit' da programme Grandad.

It was briefly funny with IT geeks, wasn't it? The same people who thought "exsqueeze me" was the height of wit.

Baking Powder?

Been used (in geeky circles) since at least the early 90s that I am aware of. Probably before that too.

[i]"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."[/i], hence some things just happen automagically.

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Ever watched the film Idiocracy!? 😉

It's all about re-imagineering the paradigm, innit bro. 😆

Twunts behaving like tween-agers imho

It was briefly funny with IT geeks, wasn't it? The same people who thought "exsqueeze me" was the height of wit.

Not really used as funny, more for situations like "it started working again, but I don't know why and can't be bothered to spend time investigating it because the payoff is likely to be considerably less than the value gained".

It's a good word to use if you want to get senior management nodding agreeably.

Not really used as funny

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IME it tends to get used to mean either [i]"works automatically but I have absolutely no idea how"[/i] or [i]"works automatically through a very complicated process which I understand but can't be arsed to explain to you because it isn't particularly relevant"[/i], or sometimes just [i]"I wish to give the impression that I understand how this works - but actually I don't"[/i]

See also: [i]white box[/i], [i]black box[/i], [i]hand-waving[/i], and [i]timey-wimey stuff[/i] 🙂

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mogrim said » Been using automagically for years in IT stuff, have you really only just heard it?

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Get wit' da programme Grandad.

OMG some folk consider it cool 😮