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interesting - 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".
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There is, however, among these notes the following interesting paragraph, written in 1840 and clearly foreshadowing The Great Stone Face:
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Of the old Welsh poets it may, perhaps, be interesting to remember two.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
(the secretary's) face, during the reading of the above resolutions: to those who knew that the gigantic brain of Pickwick was working beneath that forehead, and that the beaming eyes of Pickwick were twinkling behind those glasses, the sight was indeed an interesting one.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
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