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Wizardly Adj. Pertaining To Wizards. A Wizardly Feature Is One That Only A Wizard Could Understand Or Use Properly.
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wizardly adj.
Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly
feature is one that only a wizard could understand or use
properly.
Related:
wizardly: adj. Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly {feature} is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
elite adj. Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the cognoscenti.
Also used as a general positive adjective. This term is not actually hacker slang in the strict sense...
Unix weenie n. [ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard', common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs....
magic: adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explai
compare {automagically} and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law...
UNIX weenie: [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs....
Some people think of wizards as nothing more than men in pointy hats who like to go around turning people into toads.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Perhaps wizards should come together and agree on a saying or two to better humanize their professio...
Only a wizard can use a magic whistle.
MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines.
Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking....
UTSL // n. [Unix] On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!
in "Star Wars") -- analogous to RTFS (sense 1), but more polite....