Boringness in a sentence as a noun

Perhaps it's time to make HN proud of its boringness again?

The boringness of Denmark combined with the social problems of the UK, that's where it's heading.

The boringness of the people that you spend time with is directly correlated to your own.

It's almost a boringness anti-filter. Kinda works, but is in no fit state to release - again, due to time!

For example when I am around other people I often don't feel less lonely and instead also feel under stress, boringness etc.

My biggest fear, which is confirmed time and time again, is that my awkwardness and general boringness scares people off. It'd be nice if I could meet someone who, with fair certainty, would not be like that to me.

Maybe its boringness might be of value to some, as it has reached steady state, but I believe that if you are going to be where the puck is going to be, you need to consider languages other than Python. I am betting on JS and Clojure.

More importantly, both languages have a well-established culture of boringness. This is a quality I actively look for, because it tells me someone wrote code to solve a problem, not because it was the hip thing to do.

Canberra's boringness really is evident in its inability to turn into the wild wild west with all these law exceptions.

This does not really apply to me because I tend to bind boringness/excitement to problems and not technology. For example if my task is to create a typical website, that is relatively boring by default.

My favorite thing about go is it's overall sense of boringness - Go code seems very predictable. There's a culture of digging into the source throughout the community, and tools like go fmt & go vet ensure that most code looks similar.

Their boringness is actually what makes them a good punchline, when contrasted with the intricacy of the systems they describe, but without that set-up, they're just boring.

In fact many boring things are profitable precisely because their boringness means substantial payment is required to convince anyone to do them.

Was a fun numerical experiment to break the boringness of my own numerical experiments with fractals

Maybe its boringness might be of value to some, as it has reached steady state, but I believe that if you are going to be where the puck is going to be, you need to consider languages other than Python. I have a philosophy: Innovate in either what you are building OR what you are using to build it, not both at once.

The logical conclusion is, that we get borderline psychopaths and/or actors as politicians, who manage to build up an image of total boringness. They cannot be educated in any field, because their field actually is managing their own image.

Politeness and boringness are utterly orthogonal" ... .

People often forget that most of life is just boring or trivial, so when they're exposed to a new medium they see all the boringness and triviality and then dismiss the entire medium. In reality a representative example off literature is a shitty fantasy novel, not Shakespeare.

But it seems like this whole process comes because "boringness" makes operators no money even when serves end-users purposes perfectly. Look at craiglist - the most boring, most successful-at-fulfilling-a-need and the least-profitable-relative-to-traffic commercial website in the world.

See John Oliver's explanation of the boringness of the net neutrality debates for an example of how boring, seemingly trivial minutiae can have lasting serious effects. The anti-dual-boot provisions in MS's OEM agreements were a particularly egregious example.

Boringness definitions

noun

extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest

See also: dreariness insipidness insipidity