Hacker News
- Is Web Design All About Hacking or Kludging? http://ideonexus.com/2013/05/05/is-web-design-all-about-hacking-or-kludging/ 10 comments
- Tim Bray on Unicode: is UTF-8 a racist kludge or a stroke of genius? http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF 2 comments
Lobsters
- [Kludging] for reasons, I need to find a way to use a shared internet access on a smartphone as backup WAN. any idea how ? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/an2dk2/kludging_for_reasons_i_need_to_find_a_way_to_use/ 7 comments sysadmin
- Man’s DIY Kludge Spreads Internet Access Across Coastal Marin Village - "installed high-speed antennas all over town and turned his garage into a command center of an internet company that serves 140 of the 400 houses in Dillon Beach with new requests for hookups coming every day." http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/09/07/residents-diy-internet-spreads-marin/ 46 comments technology
- The irony: SegWit was kludged into a soft fork to prevent a chain split https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6qw4ea/the_irony_segwit_was_kludged_into_a_soft_fork_to/ 47 comments btc
- Brock Pierce's BLOCKCHAIN CAPITAL is part-owner of Bitcoin's biggest, private, fiat-funded private dev team (Blockstream) & biggest, private, fiat-funded private mining operation (BitFury). Both are pushing SegWit - with its "centrally planned blocksize" & dangerous "anyone-can-spend kludge". https://eu4.ixquick.com/do/search?nosteeraway=1&cat=web&language=english&query=%22blockchain+capital%22+bitfury&lui=english&nj=0 35 comments btc
- u/Luke-Jr invented SegWit's dangerous "anyone-can-spend" soft-fork kludge. Now he helped kill Bitcoin trading at Circle. He thinks Bitcoin should only hard-fork TO DEAL WITH QUANTUM COMPUTING. Luke-Jr will continue to kill Bitcoin if we continue to let him. To prosper, BITCOIN MUST IGNORE LUKE-JR. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5h0yf0/ulukejr_invented_segwits_dangerous_anyonecanspend/ 39 comments btc
- In successful open-source software projects, the community should drive the code - not the other way around. Projects fail when "dead scripture" gets prioritized over "common sense". (Another excruciating analysis of Core/Blockstream's pathological fetishizing of a temporary 1MB anti-spam kludge) https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4k6tke/the_tragedy_of/ 19 comments btc
- Kludge Not: Obama’s plan for free community college is elegant and forward-thinking—unlike virtually all U.S. policy fixes. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/01/obama_community_college_plan_free_education_is_an_elegant_and_forward_thinking.html 374 comments politics
- fic-mode for highlighting TODOs ,FIXMEs and KLUDGEs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/fic-mode.el 3 comments emacs
- Nmap: The Internet Considered Harmful - DARPA Interference Checking Kludge Scanning http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/119981-it-security-mag-tricked-into-publishing-hilarious-nonsense 4 comments programming
- Computers Fear Me: a Kludge to end all Kludges http://chalain.livejournal.com/61694.html 89 comments programming
- Ask Reddit: Are web browsers not designed for web apps? Are web apps a kludge? http://programming.reddit.com/info/5z6gs/comments/ 32 comments programming
- The lambda is a typographic kludge! http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/aug99/0083.html 48 comments programming