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40: 344:), originally meaning 'smart' or 'witty'. In the typical machinations of language in evolutionary growth, the word "kludge" eventually came to mean 'not so smart' or 'pretty ridiculous' .... Today "kludge" forms one of the most beloved words in design terminology, and it stands ready for handy application to the work of anyone who gins up 110-volt circuitry to plug into the 220 VAC source. The building of a kludge, however, is not work for amateurs. 706:
and promotions. ... One day ... the admiral asked him what a kluge was – the first person ever to do so. Murgatroyd said it was hard to explain, but he would make one so the admiral could see what it was. After a couple of days, he returned with a complex object. "Interesting," said the admiral, "but what does it do?" In reply, Murgatroyd dropped it over the side of the ship. As the thing sank, it went "kluge".
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pastiche. The things we hold highest in our human experience (love, memory, dreams, and a predisposition for religious thought) result from a particular agglomeration of ad hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolution history. It's not that we have fundamentally human thoughts and feelings
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The transcendent aspects of our human experience, the things that touch our emotional and cognitive core, were not given to us by a Great Engineer. These are not the latest design features of an impeccably crafted brain. Rather, at every turn, brain design has been a kludge, a workaround, a jumble, a
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On being drafted into the navy, Murgatroyd gave his profession as "kluge maker" .... Whenever Murgatroyd was asked what he was doing, he said he was making a kluge, and actually he was one of the world's best kluge makers. Not wanting to seem ignorant, his superiors kept giving him commendations
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Phineas Burling is the chief calligrapher with the Fink and Wiggles Publishing Company, Inc. ... According to Burling, the word "kludge" first appeared in the English language in the early fifteen-hundreds. ... The word "kludge" is, according to Burling, derived from the same root as the German
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In a 2012 article, political scientist Steven Teles used the term "kludgeocracy" to criticize the complexity of social welfare policy in the United States. Teles argues that institutional and political obstacles to passing legislation often drive policy makers to accept expedient fixes rather than
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The result of this history is a tangle. Many younger U.S. hackers pronounce the word as /klooj/ but spell it, incorrectly for its meaning and pronunciation, as 'kludge'. ... British hackers mostly learned /kluhj/ orally, use it in a restricted negative sense and are at least consistent. European
883:. Rather than continue to struggle to diagnose and fix the bug, the programmer may write additional code to compensate. For example, if a variable keeps ending up doubled, a kludge may be to add later code that divides by two rather than to search for the original incorrect computation. 993:
that is installed backward, facing the back of the head rather than the front. As a result, all kinds of stuff gets in its way, including a bunch of wiring that passes through the eye and leaves us with a pair of
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hackers have mostly learned the word from written American sources and tend to pronounce it /kluhj/ but use the wider American meaning! Some observers consider this mess appropriate in view of the word's meaning.
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or difficulty by building a kludge, perhaps exploiting properties of the bug itself. A kludge is often used to modify a working system while avoiding fundamental changes, or to ensure backwards compatibility.
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anecdote tells of a computer part which needed a slightly delayed signal to work. Rather than setting up a timing system, the kludge was to connect long coils of internal wires to slow the electrical signal.
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n. A clever programming trick intended to solve a particular nasty case in an expedient, if not clear, manner. Often used to repair bugs. Often involves ad-hockery and verges on being a crock.
837:") is a solution to a problem, the performance of a task, or a system fix which is inefficient, inelegant ("hacky"), or even incomprehensible, but which somehow works. It is similar to a 821:) as an invasion of its historical role as the NASA center for manned spaceflight. Thus, MSC personnel missed no opportunity to disparage the Skylab project, calling it "the kludge". 1566: 1571: 1211: 810: 809:
and kludged what was originally designed for the conical Gemini Command Module onto the cylindrical Skylab Airlock Module. The Skylab project, managed by the
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spelling possibly deriving from German, until the two terms were confused in the mid-20th century, as British and American (respectively) military slang.
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or makeshift solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as
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accepts Granholm's coinage of the term (not the fanciful pseudo-etymology quoted above), there are examples of its use before the 1960s.
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vt. To insert a kluge into a program. "I've kluged this routine to get around that weird bug, but there's probably a better way."
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era for any piece of electronics that worked well on shore but consistently failed at sea". A summary of a 1947 article in the
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the kludgy design of the brain as molded by the twists and turns of evolutionary history. Rather, we have them precisely
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v. To use a kludge to get around a problem. "I've kludged around it for now, but I'll fix it up properly later."
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A kludge is often used to fix an unanticipated problem in an earlier kludge; this is essentially a kind of
771: 614:] similarly said: "An ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole.") 482: 239: 48: 1305: 1016: 110: 256:'An ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole' (Granholm); esp. in 1360: 1008: 918: 818: 44: 1586: 995: 787: 271: 223:(2nd ed., 1989), cites Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 "How to Design a Kludge" article in the American 1384:. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Office, Office of Policy and Plans. 947: 1123: 1052:, a Japanese term for deliberately "un-useful" inventions, created as a hobby and entertainment 1491: 1458: 1454: 1448: 1412: 1385: 1055: 982: 895: 802: 450: 224: 31: 850:
can also be used with a positive connotation, for a quick solution to a frustrating problem.
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launch vehicles, the ATM was kludged from an early design for the descent stage of the
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The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
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Dunar, Andrew J.; Administration, U. S. National Aeronautics and Space (1999).
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Another type of kludge is the evasion of an unknown problem or bug in a
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This article is about workarounds. For the American music magazine, see
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Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990
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which was expected to work almost always, but ends up failing often.
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Hansen, Aage (1926). Knudsen, Gunnar; Kristensen, Marius (eds.).
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MacGyver in popular culture § MacGyverisms and "to MacGyver"
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Nolan Underwood, Agnes (Winter 1947). "Folklore from G.I. Joe".
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meaning 'toilet' (in either the room or device sense), with the
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Granholm humorously imagined a fictitious source for the term:
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refers to a piece of control data embedded inside a message.
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at the axial docking port of the Multiple Docking Adapter.
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and government. It is similar in meaning to the naval term
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variant, both were interchangeably used and confused. The
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spelling in particular derives ultimately from a word in
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compares evolutionary kluges with engineering ones like
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n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of
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seems to have the sense of 'overcomplicated', while
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The word emerges in English only in the 20th century
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First Usage of "Kluge" on UseNET (14 December 1981)
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
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Something that works for the wrong reason. 500: 499:, is incorrect and would properly be spelled 494: 461:Arguments against the derivation from German 371: 333: 315: 8: 1349:on 3 April 2019 – via Our-Local.co.uk. 1039: 950:proponents have misconstrued brain anatomy: 931:metaphor has been adapted in fields such as 890:(Network Address Translation) (RFC 1918) or 860:A solution might be a kludge if it fails in 462: 453: 444: 408: 400: 389: 379: 327: 321: 303: 294:('skill in designing or applying kludges'). 1071: 634: 562:of computer programmer slang maintained by 524: 518: 509:An alternative etymology suggests that the 434:, perhaps related to Low German diminutive 429: 309: 805:, even recycled the hatch design from its 759:Perhaps the ultimate kludge was the first 662:) device, whether in hardware or software. 574:and cites usage examples pre-dating 1962. 1014:In the science fiction television series 517:(a language closely related to English): 1434:"The Jargon File: The Meaning of 'Hack'" 1327:(4). 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Houghton Mifflin Co. pp.  1152:Mapstone, Robina (7 June 1973). 407:('dumpling', 'clod', diminutive 278:'to patch or mend clumsily' and 176: 153: 65: 1066:Chinese Industrial Cooperatives 1024:carefully thought out reforms. 886:In computer networking, use of 458:('piece of bad workmanship'),. 440:('dumpling', 'clod'), standard 1511:Teles, Steven M. (Fall 2017). 693:"was common Navy slang in the 643:during or after World War II. 449:('mess, disorder') and Danish 1: 796:Apollo Command/Service Module 683:, which is now often spelled 286:entry also includes the verb 1036:, British slang for a kludge 815:Marshall Space Flight Center 1321:New York Folklore Quarterly 1072: 792:Apollo Applications Program 699:New York Folklore Quarterly 556:The New Hacker's Dictionary 534: 366: 1624: 1453:. Belknap Press. pp.  967:The research psychologist 916: 29: 1513:"Kludgeocracy in America" 1447:Linden, David J. (2007). 1432:Raymond, Eric S. 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Index

Hack (computer science)
Kludge (magazine)

Miles Glacier Bridge
earthquake
/klʌ,kl/
workaround
computer science
aerospace engineering
Internet slang
evolutionary neuroscience
animation
jury rig
kludge
kluge
/klʌ/
/kl/
etymologies
Oxford English Dictionary
computer magazine
Datamation
cognates
Yiddish
קלוג
Krücke
Kloß
Low Saxon
Danish
Jutland dialect
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