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wizard
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n. 1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or
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hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp. someone who can find and fix
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bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a hacker if he or she has general
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hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she
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has specific detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a
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wizard for something given the time to study it. 2. The term wizard is also
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used intransitively of someone who has extremely high-level hacking or
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problem-solving ability. 3. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden
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to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system. 4. A Unix
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expert, esp. a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough
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established that Unix Wizard is a recognized job title at some corporations
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and to most headhunters. See guru , lord high fixer. See also deep magic ,
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heavy wizardry , incantation , magic , mutter , rain dance , voodoo
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programming , wave a dead chicken.
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