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by arvindrajnaidu 1525 days ago
What does “finished” even mean?
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Once all the yaks are shaved and you get around to the original goal?

Though, for myself, previous rounds of yak shaving has made it easy to start a “simple” project and usually get it finished in a reasonable amount of time since what I mostly do is write wrappers for the python C-API and my system is pretty solid at this point. Makes it easy to test out different libraries even if the end goal is to use it from a C(++) program.

Probably need to get a grip on the yaks I’m currently herding if I ever want to finish my current long term project.

It means you're Donald Knuth and you've just released TeX 3.