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Sounds like Rubber Duck Debugging. A simple, yet effective technique. http://wiki.c2.com/?RubberDucking http://wiki.c2.com/?RubberDucking https://blog.codinghor
by jspash 10y ago
Sounds like Rubber Duck Debugging. A simple, yet effective technique.
http://wiki.c2.com/?RubberDucking http://wiki.c2.com/?RubberDucking https://blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/
Having just read the recent article on HN about Japanese workers "pointing at things" got me thinking that the two actions probably stimulate a similar area of the brain. Sometimes we just need to get "out of our head" to make a breakthrough in the problem we're trying to solve.
- AstralStorm 10y agoIt is no longer Rubber Duck when you actually spell out the assertions. It becomes a form of very good and useful documentation and sometimes runtime verification.