A kludge or kluge is a workaround or makeshift solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain. Its only benefit is that it rapidly solves an important problem using available resources.
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Yeah, it describes about 99% of all IT solutions and Implementations.
There’s nothing as permanent as a quick and dirty temporary workaround.
Oh my God, YES. I Am aware of two proof of concepts that have been running for at least 10 years
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Yeah, that’s it man….
get it done right now!!! deploy it now!!!
they even created a buzzard for it called “MVP”…. Minimum viable product, a.k.a. deploy the crap …… install the crap.
I’ve learned to say jobs done, boss
The first modem just transmitted data over the analog phone network as a series of beeps, a function which the phone system was never designed for.
Computer networking is kludges all the way down.
That’s awesome!!!
Also about half the industrial electric gigs i see, its either installing a bunch of new shit or several days of kludge
Or, as my dad told me, “There’s the right way, and the right now way.”
TIL what 90% of my job is
Also called a hack.
It’ll be fine. Just don’t touch it. Or look at it.
In german we call this a “Krücke” which translates to the english word “crutch”.
Pretty close to the “kludge” 🤔
And if the Krücke doesn’t really work, we call it Verschlimmbesserung.
I love that word.
Happens way to often.
Then you build a Krücke for the Verschlimmbesserung 😄
We call that a bodge.
Now that I think of it, the Finnish translation for this is “purkkapatentti” which translates to “chewing gum patent”
I can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone use that, but sure.
My whole life is a kludge
This is my specialty. Once my friends and I BBQed at a park but forgot the spatula and tongs. I smashed an empty soda can flat with a rock and wedged it on the end of a stick to make a spatula. I also sharpened and split a stick to make a sort of two pronged fork. It did the job.
Well TIL my Royal Kludge RK61 keyboard is aptly named! I hate the bloody thing
What’s wrong with it? I don’t at all doubt that something is- it’s a $50 wireless mechanical keyboard, I’m just curious.
No I mean it works perfectly fine but - it’s absolutely my fault for getting a 60% - I cannot deal with all the shortcuts and hotkey combinations. Like, the up arrow is the same key as ?, and when I was on Minecraft trying to ask a question I’d end up repeating myself because I’d hit enter as soon as I finish typing my ?. But of course the blasted thing thought I wanted the up arrow (loading the previous message sent).
Anyway that’s just me being a plonker, there’s nothing inherently wrong with Royal Kludge keyboards. Except the name maybe 🤔
In Spanish is a ñapa
In Dutch it’s called ‘de Franse slag’ or ‘the French method’.
It’s a bit culture-ist but it’s not often wrong.
