Thursday, May 04, 2006

Yak Shaving Razor

Joe Carter just posted an anniversary edition of his Yak Shaving Razor series:

Yak Shaving is a term that was introduced by Ren and Stimpy and coopted by the MIT AI Lab to refer to 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.

For the first anivesary of this series I've compiled fifty for of my favorite tools from the YSR archives that will help in solving problems you might not have known were problems.

Check it out! Joe's advice ranges from Gmail and Firefox hacks, keyboard shortcuts, math tricks, and sheet folding instructions. The breadth of what he covers and the cleverness of his ideas are truly impressive!

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