What is Yak Shaving?
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Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.
origin: MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.
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A waitstaff shift occurring during a late weekday night, ie: Midnight to six a.m. on a Wednesday. Named so because these are the less-d..
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a large beer bellied, man eating beast who does not shave against the grain.
sometimes referred to as the potty mouth of a so called ba..
