tacking

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But if you are tacking a new problem you have no idea where those boundaries lie.

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a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

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noun

a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

noun

(nautical) the act of changing tack

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tacking.

noun

a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

noun

(nautical) the act of changing tack

Example sentences

But if you are tacking a new problem you have no idea where those boundaries lie.

You are simply tacking union and intersect to an existing data structure.

> What I love about that quote is it could clearly be used to condem the PSAs they've been playing in theaters and tacking on DVDs quite some time now.

This is a fairly good article on hawala too, but tacking on the somewhat forced Bitcoin analogy makes it clickbait.

Taking stuff that has existed for 30 years that anyone with community college level machine shop training knows about, tacking "with the 3d printerz!1!!

The code is clearly not well understood anymore, but if you trace the history you can see it's due to a few years of tacking on features as quickly as possible.

But once enough clever people figure out that you can earn a killing or huge bonus on top of anything, just by tacking on a nice Kickstarter campaign, it will become impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.

I could give fuck all about what track 37 of my friends are listening to, and it's not like they were just tacking this stuff on, they have made this a core business strategy, and that will come at the expense of improving the core experience, which frankly could use a lot of improvement.