interesting adj.
In hacker parlance, this word has strong
connotations of `annoying', or `difficult', or both. Hackers
relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out
of the ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times".
Oppose trivial, uninteresting.
In hacker parlance, this word has strong
connotations of `annoying', or `difficult', or both. Hackers
relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out
of the ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times".
Oppose trivial, uninteresting.
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- interesting adj.
In hacker parlance, this word has strong
connotations of `annoying',
or `difficult', or both. Hackers relish a challenge... - Ancient Chinese Curse:
May you live in interesting times... - May you live in interesting times.
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Ancient Chinese... - May you live in uninteresting times.
--
Chinese... - nontrivial: adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing
power.
Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem... - May you live in uninteresting
times... - uninteresting: adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although
{nontrivial},
can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources... - You will live in interesting times and, if lucky,
survive them... - nontrivial adj.
Requiring real thought or significant
computing power.
Often used as an understated way of saying that a ...
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During a discussion on that group...
