Esoteric in a sentence as an adjective

What is the point of testing your app for esoteric bugs when your entire source code and passwords can be Google dorked?

True, there are some things that are esoteric and which only a few very specially trained persons would notice, but in many cases, it's not that way.

Sure, there are people focusing on more esoteric stuff in their free time, writing their own Lisps, exploring different data structures, etc.

I was an esoteric derivatives trader at an investment bank making money off clueless clients.

Frustrating Unix pitfall of the day: esoteric cron rulesThis isn't a Unix pitfall, it's a Debian pitfall.

Why does it seem like everyone else has spent thousands of hours understanding esoteric git or hg incantations that I've never encountered the need for.

> "web forums" and "esoteric material"Well there you go. Very unspecified.

But I thought you had to be running beta-release key value stores, esoteric web servers, and experimental programming languages if you wanted to scale!/s

A lot of the low-hanging fruit had been answered so the questions became increasingly esoteric such that you were less likely to simply know an answer and had to spend more time researching.

In the technical phone interview I was asked some esoteric questions about finding the intersection of two integer arrays, what the O-notation would be, and so forth.

The RA's choice of python was more reasonable, but Python was a highly esoteric research language at the point and did not have the ecosystem around it yet for writing scalable production code.

Nobody seems to have a really good handle on how we manage identity across multiple machines, much less how we manage esoteric stuff like family relations for delegating access to photos or music purchases or whatever.

Barring esoteric business needs, they don't need, or even want, their employees to be able to, say, shoot HD video, make unlimited anonymous video calls to anybody in the world, track themselves jogging with accelerometers and GPS, play Angry Birds, and so forth.

But I'm glad I didn't, because looking back on it, the biggest thing I got out of it was not the broad scientific background—I can barely remember much of the stuff from the more esoteric courses I took—but the knowledge that I could, in fact, learn these kinds of things in a relatively quick timeframe.

Esoteric definitions

adjective

confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories"