The term was coined by Carlin J. Vieri, a Ph.D. at MIT back in the 90s.

該術語是由Carlin J. Vieri博士創造的。 在90年代的麻省理工學院。

Yak shaving is what you are doing when you're doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you're supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you're doing to the original meta-task.

k牛刮鬍是您在執行一些愚蠢的小任務時所要執行的任務，該任務與您應做的工作沒有明顯的關係，但是一連串的十二種因果關係將您的工作與原始的元任務。

Phrased differently, yak shaving is all that stuff that you need to do to solve some problem.

換個說法，牛刮鬍子是解決某些問題所需要做的全部工作。

Here's a task. "Hey, Scott, can you deploy that web site?

這是一個任務。 “嘿，斯科特，您可以部署該網站嗎？

Ok, do I have access? No, gotta get it. Passwords? Deployment technique? Web Farm? Scaling how? Web framework not configured? Oh, what about the connection string?

好的，我可以訪問嗎？ 不，一定要得到它。 密碼？ 部署技術？ 網路農場？ 縮放比例如何？ Web框架未配置？ 哦，連線字串呢？

"Hey, Scott, is that site deployed yet?"

“嘿，斯科特，那個站點已經部署好了嗎？”

"No, I'm still shaving this yak."

“不，我還在刮this牛。”

_{Yak photo by Ludovic Hirlimann used under Creative Commons}

_{d牛照片由Ludovic Hirlimann使用，位於創用CC之下}

Programming in a nutshell

簡而言之程式設計

* Ren and Stimpy of course, were first, but it was used at MIT in the context of irritating technology ceremony.

*當然， Ren和Stimpy是第一個，但是在麻省理工學院的激動人心的技術儀式中使用了它們。

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關於斯科特 (About Scott)

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

斯科特·漢塞爾曼(Scott Hanselman)是前教授，前金融首席架構師，現在是演講者，顧問，父親，糖尿病患者和Microsoft員工。 他是一位失敗的單口相聲漫畫家，一個玉米種植者和一本書的作者。

翻譯自: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/yak-shaving-defined-ill-get-that-done-as-soon-as-i-shave-this-yak