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I’ve personally never heard the phrase before, so I would question whether it’s so crucial to the conversation that it needs a replacement. It’s not even clear
by tshaddox 5y ago
I’ve personally never heard the phrase before, so I would question whether it’s so crucial to the conversation that it needs a replacement. It’s not even clear what it means. From context I can gather that it means “do something desperate to try to complete a software development task before a deadline.”
- ianmcgowan 5y agoI took it as a reference to the Mechanical Turk, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk, cheating by including a clever human literally inside your machine in that case...
- 8note 5y agoExplicitly referencing the mechanical Turk would be better, and a bit more explicit on the approach. I think the actual reference might be to a Calvin and Hobbes strip, but adding that it's a little person in the atm vs just a person -- an unnecessary addition.