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.