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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.
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