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After googling around, as far as I can tell the word yak shaving come from a ren and stimpy cartoon episode from the early nineteens. But how did it go from pr
by wodenokoto 5y ago
After googling around, as far as I can tell the word yak shaving come from a ren and stimpy cartoon episode from the early nineteens.
But how did it go from preparing for yaksmas to the current meaning?
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoProbably because some hacker started using it, according to the Jargon File[1] someone in the MIT AI Lab popularized it. [1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html
- kragen 5y agoI don't think that's in AI-lab versions of the Jargon File.