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What makes a technology "ghetto"?
by copperx 11y ago
What makes a technology "ghetto"?
- pg_is_a_butt 11y agoculturally similar clusters of negroes
- genericacct 11y agoBeing inexpensive and fast apparently..
- icebraining 11y agoThe definition I'm aware of is being hacked together (rapidly and cheaply) and flimsy, as opposed to engineered and robust. Not to be confused with something that is "engineered" (as in, plenty of resources are dedicated to it) yet still flimsy, like so much of the software we know.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoIn certain circumstances it means an inelegant but effective and cheap workaround, so basically one of the sub-meanings of "hack"