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Who is the author “JC Shakespeare”?
- themaninthedark 4y agoDarn, I was hoping that someone was going for an amalgamation of JC Denton and Shakespeare. I was looking forward to reading the stories...
- smitty1e 4y agoAt least it waxed not soteriological.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago> I was looking forward to reading the stories... I'm not big into books
- lelandfe 4y agoWhat good hath thy soldier when he may oft be ordered to terror
- zerocrates 4y agoWhat a shame.
- _8j50 4y agoWhat the hell is yak-shaving? This is the second front page HN post where the author says that and I've never heard of it before.
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- pdntspa 4y agohttps://americanexpress.io/yak-shaving/ https://americanexpress.io/yak-shaving/ Pretty much the first result on DDG...
- tsol 4y agoBut why do I suddenly desire to raise my credit my credit limit?
- glitchc 4y agoIt’s when your yak’s hair is overgrown and you finally decide to do something about it.
- _8j50 4y agoNice!
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- svat 4y agohttp://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11 http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs... — earliest internet mention (AFAIK), citing Carlin Vieri who coined the term (with this meaning). https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/ — a good example (and where I first saw it), which actually involves shaving a yak.
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- _8j50 4y agoSo I can say stuff like I was yak shaving and bike shedding this one time... and only devs would know what I mean. Very amusing.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoSimilarly, Google attributed an academic paper about the music of Herbert Howells to a scholar called Miss A Sabrinensis. There is no such author, but Howells did write a work called Missa Sabrinensis (the Mass of the [River] Severn).
- wiredfool 4y agoSee also excel and dates.
- twhitmore 4y agoI laughed at the authors CS Salad, B Noodles and C Fajita -- Google in that case having parsed a cafeteria lunch menu.