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• brute force and ignorance n. A popular design technique at many software houses -- brute force coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways.
  Dogmatic adherence to design methodologies tends to encourage this sort of thing....
• brute force and ignorance: n. A popular design technique at many software houses -- {brute force} coding unrelieved by any knowledge of how problems have been previously solved in elegant ways.
  Dogmatic adherence to design methodologies tends to encourage this sort of thing....
• Brute force, clumsiness, ignorance, and superstition will always triumph over science, skill, knowledge, and logic.
• elephantine adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous hogs (owing perhaps to poor design founded on brute force and ignorance) and exceedingly hairy monstrosity.
  See also second-system effect and baroque....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompso