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.
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.
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
curiously, the stuff i have at home is mostly nice and organized.
almost like we need time to properly figure things out and IT departments just want to push us ever faster.
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