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uninteresting |
3 definitions found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: uninteresting adj 1: arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip" [ant: {interesting}] 2: characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food" From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: uninteresting adj 1. Said of a problem that although {nontrivial}, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it 2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code. Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. _Real_ hackers (see {toolsmith}) generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve them -- thus solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate). See {WOMBAT}, {SMOP}; compare {toy problem}, oppose {interesting}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: uninteresting1. Said of a problem that although {nontrivial}, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it 2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code. Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. *Real* hackers (see {toolsmith}) generalise uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve them - thus solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate). See {WOMBAT}, {SMOP}. Compare {toy problem}. Oppose {interesting}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-10)
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