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uninteresting
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adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial , can be solved simply
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by throwing sufficient resources at it. 2. Also said of problems for which a
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solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and
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code. Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time,
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to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. Real hackers (see toolsmith )
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generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve
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them thus solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must be
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admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain, or a mountain
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into a tectonic plate). See WOMBAT , SMOP ; compare toy problem , oppose
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interesting.
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