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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In Spanish is a ñapa
Or, as my dad told me, “There’s the right way, and the right now way.”
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.
We call that a bodge.
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 german we call this a “Krücke” which translates to the english word “crutch”.
Pretty close to the “kludge” 🤔
“crutch” is used too, but it’s a little different: more something someone relies on too much; it might be a fine option, but the person doesn’t look further for something better
Similar to redneck engineering, possibly? Although, despite appearances, redneck engineering is sometimes known to be surprisingly sturdy.
I think they might be contrapositives. To me, redneck engineering roughly means “surprisingly good and durable solution made in spite of limited materials and or knowledge” where kludge roughly means “surprisingly shit solution barely good enough to work 1 or 2 times despite having the money/ability to produce a much better solution.”
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
Also about half the industrial electric gigs i see, its either installing a bunch of new shit or several days of kludge
“Mexicanada”
