d牛刮胡定义-一旦刮I牛，我就完成。
The term was coined by Carlin J. Vieri, a Ph.D. at MIT back in the 90s.
该术语是由Carlin J. Vieri博士创造的。 在90年代的麻省理工学院。
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牛刮胡是您在执行一些愚蠢的小任务时所要执行的任务，该任务与您应做的工作没有明显的关系，但是一连串的十二种因果关系将您的工作与原始的元任务。
Phrased differently, yak shaving is all that stuff that you need to do to solve some problem.
换个说法，牛刮胡子是解决某些问题所需要做的全部工作。
Here's a task. "Hey, Scott, can you deploy that web site?
这是一个任务。 “嘿，斯科特，您可以部署该网站吗？
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，我可以访问吗？ 不，一定要得到它。 密码？ 部署技术？ 网络农场？ 缩放比例如何？ Web框架未配置？ 哦，连接字符串呢？
"Hey, Scott, is that site deployed yet?"
“嘿，斯科特，那个站点已经部署好了吗？”
"No, I'm still shaving this yak."
“不，我还在刮this牛。”
Yak photo by Ludovic Hirlimann used under Creative Commons
d牛照片由Ludovic Hirlimann使用，位于创用CC之下
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* Ren and Stimpy of course, were first, but it was used at MIT in the context of irritating technology ceremony.
*当然， Ren和Stimpy是第一个，但是在麻省理工学院的激动人心的技术仪式中使用了它们。
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关于斯科特 (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·汉塞尔曼(Scott Hanselman)是前教授，前金融首席架构师，现在是演讲者，顾问，父亲，糖尿病患者和Microsoft员工。 他是一位失败的单口相声漫画家，一个玉米种植者和一本书的作者。
翻译自: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/yak-shaving-defined-ill-get-that-done-as-soon-as-i-shave-this-yak