So I've been meaning to write at least some small note of introduction for a while now but just haven't had the time.
So I've been meaning to write at least some small note of introduction for a while now but just haven't had the time. But I was reading something this morning and was reminded of the word 'kludge' and wondered if this had ever been mentioned or considered in reference to Klue?
It's nothing monumental in the long run but it's certainly interesting enough. Especially as it has computer science connotations and goes back to the old FidoNet days.
"The same way RFC headers of an Internet message that cannot be mapped to the elements of an Fidonet message are converted into so called kludges that are special lines in a Fidonet message designed to carry information invisible by default to the end user."
[That bit was from an old Usenix conference talk from 1998. The PDF is unrelated but the link is here: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/freenix/crosser.pdf]
In looking at the Wikipedia entry for 'kludge' I'm reminded of the book by the same name that came out a handful of years ago. Publishers Weekly described the book this way: "Evolution seems a rushed process in which traits and attributes of humanity have been pieced together to make a functioning but far from perfect or rational being. Marcus explores the ways in which the human mind, while magnificent in its overall ability, still stumbles on several points. Focusing on areas such as memory, decision making and language, Marcus keenly identifies the makeshift devices humans have created in order to contend with what he describes as "evolutionary inertia."
Anyway, sorry to make this be my first post. Especially as it's just a very minor back-of-the-envelope scribble I thought I'd mention.
Because, yeah, in a whole lot of ways our girl Klue is most assuredly a kludge.
[embed]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge#In_computer_science[/embed]
It's nothing monumental in the long run but it's certainly interesting enough. Especially as it has computer science connotations and goes back to the old FidoNet days.
"The same way RFC headers of an Internet message that cannot be mapped to the elements of an Fidonet message are converted into so called kludges that are special lines in a Fidonet message designed to carry information invisible by default to the end user."
[That bit was from an old Usenix conference talk from 1998. The PDF is unrelated but the link is here: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/freenix/crosser.pdf]
In looking at the Wikipedia entry for 'kludge' I'm reminded of the book by the same name that came out a handful of years ago. Publishers Weekly described the book this way: "Evolution seems a rushed process in which traits and attributes of humanity have been pieced together to make a functioning but far from perfect or rational being. Marcus explores the ways in which the human mind, while magnificent in its overall ability, still stumbles on several points. Focusing on areas such as memory, decision making and language, Marcus keenly identifies the makeshift devices humans have created in order to contend with what he describes as "evolutionary inertia."
Anyway, sorry to make this be my first post. Especially as it's just a very minor back-of-the-envelope scribble I thought I'd mention.
Because, yeah, in a whole lot of ways our girl Klue is most assuredly a kludge.
[embed]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge#In_computer_science[/embed]
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