trivial adj.
1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2. Not
worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods so
well known that anyone not utterly cretinous would have
thought of them already. 4. Any problem one has already solved
(some claim that hackish `trivial' usually evaluates to `I've
seen it before'). Hackers' notions of triviality may be quite at
variance with those of non-hackers. See nontrivial,
uninteresting.
The physicist Richard Feynman, who had the hacker nature to an
amazing degree (see his essay "Los Alamos From Below" in
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"), defined `trivial
theorem' as "one that has already been proved".
1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2. Not
worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods so
well known that anyone not utterly cretinous would have
thought of them already. 4. Any problem one has already solved
(some claim that hackish `trivial' usually evaluates to `I've
seen it before'). Hackers' notions of triviality may be quite at
variance with those of non-hackers. See nontrivial,
uninteresting.
The physicist Richard Feynman, who had the hacker nature to an
amazing degree (see his essay "Los Alamos From Below" in
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"), defined `trivial
theorem' as "one that has already been proved".
Related:
- trivial: adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2.
Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable... - nontrivial: adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing
power.
Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem... - bogus: adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus."
2.
Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware,
esp. one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym... - DWIM /dwim/
[acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able
to guess,
sometimes even correctly, the result intended when... - crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or
complicated way.
Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is ... - hairy: adj. 1. Annoyingly complicated. "{DWIM} is incredibly
hairy." 2.
Incomprehensible. "{DWIM} is incredibly hairy." ... - bogus adj.
1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus."
2.
Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your... - bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so...
From the same category:
- studly adj.
Impressive; powerful. Said of code and designs
which exhibit both complexity and a virtuoso flair.
Has connotations similar to hairy but is more positive... - boot v.,n.
[techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To
load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into... - tiger team n.
[U.S. military jargon] 1. Originally,
a team (of sneakers) whose purpose is to penetrate... - Easter egg n.
[from the custom of the Easter Egg hunt
observed in the U.S.
and many parts of Europe] 1. A message hidden in... - creeping featuritis /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ n.
Variant of creeping featurism,
with its own spoonerization: `feeping creaturitis'...
