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Guilherme Ranoya Aug 3, 2023

"Gambiarra" is a Brazilian Portuguese word that it's hard to explain, because it's a way of thinking embodied into things, as a way of overcome problems without care about the elegance of the solution; at the same time, with a lot of creativity.

There is an alternative to a Object Oriented Programming (POO in portuguese - Programação Orientada a Objetos) which is POG - Programação Orientada a Gambiarra.

That's more like my way of programming.

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Jeremy Kitchen Aug 4, 2023

@ranoya @TicklishHoneyBee in infra eng we just call this “trying to keep up with the unreasonable demands placed upon us” and it’s less of an ideology and more of a necessity because we literally have no time to do it “the right way” :(

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Guilherme Ranoya

@kitchen @TicklishHoneyBee ohh it's very different. We have those here. There are sayings like "do repairs while the bus is in moviment" and things like that.

But "Gambiarra" ia a choice. A creative choice, and almost a lifestyle: it's a mindset that the lack of tools, materials, money, knowledge and other resources will not prevent us from solving the problem.