Sentences with word «kludge»

He had to kludge something together, because his Fox News employer wouldn't issue IDs to the news team.

A lot of critics say this law was never designed for dealing with carbon dioxide, that in some ways Obama is resorting to it as a sort of kludge because Congress couldn't pass a climate bill in 2010.

Not JUST to scale, or to improve it - but because the code you write when you're in a hurry is kludges all the way down.

This agreement is accomplished through each modeling group selecting the forcing data set that produces the best agreement with observations, along with model kludges that include adjusting the aerosol forcing to produce good agreement with the surface temperature observations.

20 The greatest kludge of all?

The brain is not random kludge, of course, so the search for neural networks associated with psychological concepts is a worthy one, as long as we do not succumb to the siren song of phrenology.

He is, in short, a good man in an emergency, but even that is not enough to rescue the klunky kludge at work here.

When you add up enough kludges, you get a very complicated program that has no clear organizing principle, is exceedingly difficult to understand, and is subject to crashes.

But if it's a completely unique vehicle you are looking for, something with massive power and brawny looks, this strange kludge will put a smile on your face.

I never could make Fantastic Contraption work the way it was intended to... good thing I could usually kludge a way that wasn't expected, at least in the early going.

Though this theme isn't exactly new (even for games), Alien: Isolation's commitment to retro - future kludge makes every attempt to progress an anxiety - inducing fight against the technology that holds us hostage.

Many cells have no fixed thermometers so various kludges are used to fabricate grid cell averages.

Its advocates believe it enables them to straddle the gap between demands for greater work / life balance than was achievable before, but the critics call it an awkward kludge, offering a job title that few will recognise and half a position, which will leave the holder of the job unable to move around in the profession as other firms will not take them seriously.

The National Post has put an awful lot of kludge into your browser for the sake of a relatively few words by Chris Selley.

If I've kludged citation management on the iPad, I'll fix it then.

So I did basically what I call a 10 - year retrospective average, with a couple of kludges where there are multiple years with missing data.

Is there a way within the scope of your resources (time, ability, financial, etc...) to change your habits, kludge something together or develop some manner of automation to address the problem (i.e. build)?

I'd far rather look through many hundreds of stock photos and find one that fits perfectly with a book's message than to attempt to kludge together a cover from a few images I could get an exclusive on at some high price or to attempt to take one myself, with all the complications that can involve, particularly that of finding models.

But it remains a kludge in progress: In April, the administration delayed until 2015 the rollout of the state - run exchanges that will allow employees a wider choice of coverage options, and in July it pushed back, also until 2015, the launch of the employer mandate (forcing businesses with 50 or more employees to buy coverage or pay a penalty).

-LRB-...) The chicken tax is a kludge that helped the Big Three survive their weird obligation to patronize a UAW labor monopoly while foreign - born auto makers are free to tap a competitive U.S. labor market.

Don't waste time with this kludge.

The US health care system is made up of kludges that no one has the actual authority to fix.

«Democracy» is a kludge as it is, without that sort of distortion.

The «balance mandate» is just a kludge to mitigate some paradoxes in the way votes are counted and save this rather complicated system from a recent court case but none of this fundamentally changes the dynamics of the political system in Germany.

It's a kludge; it's ugly.

it appears nature is a kludge and likes to conserve it's energy rather then create new protiens, neurotransmitters etc...

The term comes out of the world of computer programming, where a kludge is an inelegant patch put in place to solve an unexpected problem and designed to be backward - compatible with the rest of an existing system.

(A rear wing was rejected because engineers consider them kludges and, as Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo declares after helicoptering in to Fiorano from nearby Bologna, «I find them vulgar.»)

The Ricardo setup looks like a kludged up add - on but it might weigh less.

The soft - top makes the Evoque convertible look like a kludge, but good engineering keeps the ride quiet.

This is a kludge, but it's a useful one.

At the low end are open source tools and a bunch of kludges.