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- adjective Relating to or containing
cruft - adjective Internet Poorly built and overly-complex, and unpleasant.
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Examples
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And as I said, the construction to map HTTP request to internal API call is kind of crufty and insecure.
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A lot of the Old School Revival movement is less about those old crufty rules actually being better, but about bringing back “rulings vs. rules,” code for re-empowering the gamemaster at the table.
Player Empowerment or Player Entitlement? « Geek Related 2010
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I like some things about old school play and the principles – “rulings, not rules,” sandboxing, etc – but the actual old rules are just crufty as hell.
D&D 4e’s Out… And It’s Awful. Here’s Why « Geek Related 2008
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This locks end users into the crufty Google video interface.
Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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The social system that the ODP is pretty interesting, and while crufty and spam filled — the community dwarfs the number of poeple working on most other open projects.
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CSS-powered Slashdot goes live The new CSS-powered version of Slashdot mentioned previously has gone live After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night...
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CSS-powered Slashdot goes live The new CSS-powered version of Slashdot mentioned previously has gone live After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night...
Feedlounge is live 2006
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After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS.
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CSS-powered Slashdot goes live The new CSS-powered version of Slashdot mentioned previously has gone live After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night...
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I have known cruft and its adjective crufty since my freshman year at MIT; that would be 1974.
uselessness commented on the word crufty
Two stars out of five. If a word has this tag, it's a minor irritant that should probably just go away. But I'm not losing sleep over it.
October 6, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word crufty
When referring to URLs, 'cruft' is the parts which are only relevant or meaningful to the people who created the site, such as implementation details of the computer system which serves the page. Examples of URL cruft include file extensions such as .php or .html, and internal organisational details such as /public/ or /~users/john/work/drafts/ (see also Clean URLs).
November 1, 2007