Meaning of klugy | Babel Free

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“There is a klugy way around this problem, but it won’t work with justified text, and you have to indent the first line of every paragraph.”

“Those who believe that natural selection optimizes, should expect it to build a nonpunctuate mind elegantly, by building a language of thought, rather than a klugy network which has systematicity wired in a step at a time by Mother Programmer.”

“Life, all life, is potentially prodigious—the selection or persistence of the few through time resembles less the will of an omnipotent creator than the scrambling of a klugy computer programmer. (“Klugy” is computer talk for a program that is not well designed or even well understood but has, rather, been meddled and fiddled with until it works.)”

“We wanted to have a derived class of a built-in type. In particular, we wanted to derive objects from gnu's Pix type (which is typedef'ed to void*). We have had to do a somewhat klugier derivation that made the Pix be the sole member of a class.”

“The sprocket-remover mentioned (a.k.a. chain whip) can be home-made. I used some spare chain links and a piece of aluminum bar stock. Drilled a couple of holes in the bar and used my chain tool to rivit^([sic]) the chain to it. Didn't even have to use an HG chain :-) Net cost was $0, maybe 5 minutes time. If you want to be even klugier, wrap a length of chain around the cogs and grab the ends with a ViseGrip.”

“Our workaround was the klugiest thing you can imagine, but it worked. And it was up and running on May 1.”

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