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Some well-known acronyms were created to work around bureaucratic or contracting restrictions: PDP - The term was used to describe a computer by another name, due to contracting complications for purchasing or leasing computers. The term PDP (Programmed Data Processor or Programmable Data Processor) was a workaround.
An intimate knowledge of the problem domain and execution environment is typically required to build a corner-case kludge. More commonly, a kludge is a heuristic which was expected to work almost always, but ends up failing often. A 1960s Soviet anecdote tells of a computer part which needed a slightly delayed signal to work. Rather than ...
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Spotify’s biggest-ever round of layoffs in December 2023, when it said goodbye to 1,500 staff, came as CEO Ek said the company was doing too much “work around the work.”
Jugaad (Hindustani: जुगाड़ jugaaḍ / جگاڑ jugaaṛ ()) is a concept of non-conventional, frugal innovation in the Indian subcontinent. [1] It also includes innovative fixes or simple workarounds, solutions that bend the rules, or resources that can be used in such a way.
Workaround Companies Use To Be 'Carbon-Neutral' When the 2022 World Cup was first announced in Qatar, it left a number of people scratching their heads — not just because of the surprising ...
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The amount of license fee that a patent troll can demand is limited by the alternative of the cost of designing around the troll's patent(s). [4] In order to defend against design-arounds, inventors often develop a large portfolio of interlocking patents, sometimes called a patent thicket. Thus a competitor will have to avoid many patents when ...