: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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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.
--
Ancient Chinese... - nontrivial: adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing
power.
Often used as an understated way of saying that a problem... - uninteresting: adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although
{nontrivial},
can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources... - May you live in uninteresting times.
--
Chinese... - trivial: adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2.
Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable... - WOMBAT: [Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] adj. Applied to problems
which are both profoundly {uninteresting} in themselves and
unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved.
Often used in fanciful constructions such as `wrestling... - May you live in uninteresting
times...
From the same category:
- Tell me to whom you are addressing yourself when you say that.
I am addressing myself--I am addressing myself to my... - Hollowpoints -
the ultimate in feminine protection... - AUCTION:
A gyp off the old block... - A geneticist living in Delft
Scientifically played with himself,
And when he was done He labeled it: son, And filed... - There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the
things,
and more books upon books than upon all other subjects...
