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Oct. 16th, 2006 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleMy relationship to computers, as summed up in a conversation between me and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kittenpants last night:
I don't actually know anything about how computers work. I'm not educated in the field, I don't know all of the terminology, or have any standardized background in the things at all. I do, however, have a kind of Cargo Cult proficiency with them -- I repeat rituals I have witnessed being successful in similar situations, I pray to them and bargain with them and curse them, and kludge together unlikely fixes based on my limited and probably skewed understanding of principle. I am a sort of computer witch doctor. This behavior is, oddly enough, successful about 75-80% of the time, which is better than you can get from most tech support, so I call it good.
kittenpants last night:I don't actually know anything about how computers work. I'm not educated in the field, I don't know all of the terminology, or have any standardized background in the things at all. I do, however, have a kind of Cargo Cult proficiency with them -- I repeat rituals I have witnessed being successful in similar situations, I pray to them and bargain with them and curse them, and kludge together unlikely fixes based on my limited and probably skewed understanding of principle. I am a sort of computer witch doctor. This behavior is, oddly enough, successful about 75-80% of the time, which is better than you can get from most tech support, so I call it good.
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Date: 2006-10-16 08:47 pm (UTC)If only the latter group of people understood this fact.