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casting the runes
(foldoc) | casting the runes
What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a
particular program because it never works for anyone else;
especially used when nobody can ever see what the guru is
doing different from what J. Random Luser does.
Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also
see the AI koan about Tom Knight.
(1997-12-26)
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casting the runes
(jargon) | casting the runes
n.
What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and
type at it because it never works for anyone else; esp. used when nobody
can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser
does. Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also see
the AI koan about Tom Knight in Some AI Koans (in Appendix A).
A correspondent from England tells us that one of ICL's most talented
systems designers used to be called out occasionally to service machines
which the field circus had given up on. Since he knew the design inside
out, he could often find faults simply by listening to a quick outline of
the symptoms. He used to play on this by going to some site where the field
circus had just spent the last two weeks solid trying to find a fault, and
spreading a diagram of the system out on a table top. He'd then shake some
chicken bones and cast them over the diagram, peer at the bones intently
for a minute, and then tell them that a certain module needed replacing.
The system would start working again immediately upon the replacement.
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