klugy

Example Sentences

• "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."