Posted by Erik Pragt in the late evening: April 10th, 2008
According to CATB, the act of shaving a Yak is “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.“.
The first time I read about the term was on this blog, but that was a long time ago. I was only recently that I noticed that a) I was doing it again, and b) some of my collegues where unfamiliar with the term. Therefor, I decided to (also) blog about it.
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