uninteresting

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uninteresting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Uninteresting \Uninteresting\
     See interesting.

  Uninteresting \Uninteresting\
     See interesting.

uninteresting - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  uninteresting
      adj 1: arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or
             excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"
             [ant: interesting]
      2: characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in
         being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"

uninteresting - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  uninteresting
  
     <jargon> 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) generalise 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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-03-10)
  

uninteresting - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.