And I Am The Wizard

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And I Am The Wizard

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The bell curve of programming wisdom strikes again! At the far left, we have sweet summer children who think "computers are magic" because they've never had to debug a race condition at 2 AM. In the middle, the enlightened souls who understand the fundamental truth: computers only do exactly what you tell them to do, no more, no less. Then at the far right, we circle back to "computers are magic" – but this time it's the grizzled veterans who've seen so much unexplainable behavior that they've transcended rational explanation. "Why did restarting the server fix it? No idea. Magic. Ship it."

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