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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by bakul on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:35PM (#27296985)
Jugaad is very different from this sort of collusion.
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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by eindiran on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:52PM (#27297149)
From the wiki article it sounds like it just refers to extremely improvised engineering, something akin to "bubble gum and baling wire" or "MacGyvering" something. Something like a kludge, but a bit less pejorative.
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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by yesenadam on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @07:30PM (#27297459)
like, uh, hacking—hacking together something?
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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by eindiran on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @08:44PM (#27298026)
Yes, but "hack" is so overloaded and has so many definitions that using it as a definition itself is supremely unhelpful.
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