define: yak shaving

yak shaving - Wiktionary:

"Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem."





"Main task of Data Scientist is 'yak shaving'" :)



Machine Learning on Azure | AzureConf 2014 | Channel 9

by Seth Juarez

Free ebooks from Microsoft Press (Azure etc.)

Free ebooks from Microsoft Press

There are many books there... for example:



Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure
Scott Guthrie, Mark Simms, Tom Dykstra, Rick Anderson, and Mike Wasson
July 2014



For some reason PDF files are much smaller size than ePub and Mobi (Kindle) here.

May be related to compression of embedded images, since all formats are compressed; PDF published for web is usually reducing resolution of images.