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by groovy2shoes
5144 days ago
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> It often fixes the problem, but it's just something she's learned to do with little understanding. This reminds me of a hacker koan: A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by
turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke
sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling
it with no understanding of what is going wrong."
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
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