klugy

comparative klugier · superlative klugiest

1. alternativeAlternative form of kludgy.

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

   2008, Jane C. Linder, quoting Chet Wayland, “Secret #4: Energize People”, in Spiral Up … and Other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives, New York, N.Y.: AMACOM, →ISBN, page 181

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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.

   1987, Dan Coleman, Arthur Naiman, et al., “Basic MacWrite tips”, in The Macintosh Bible: Thousands of Basic and Advanced Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts, Berkeley, Calif.: Goldstein & Blair, →ISBN, part II (Maximizing application programs), chapter 6 (Word processing), page 111

   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.

   1990, Kim Sterelny, “Is Mental Representation Structured?”, in The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction, Oxford, Oxfordshire] Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, published 1991, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Connectionism), page 182

   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.)

   1991, Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, “Vaginal Orgasm”, in Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality, New York, N.Y.: Summit Books, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Orgasm Equality), page 71

   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.

   1991 October 16, Kevin Karplus, “derived classes of buil-in types”, in comp.std.c++ (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025

   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.

   1993 September 22, David Iwatsuki, “Shimano XT cassette removal”, in rec.bicycles.tech (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025