May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:42 AM

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