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You missed various less-direct but often just as effective kinds of questions: “Can you find the mistake here?” “Is there a mistake here?” “Could there be a
by jacobolus 4y ago
You missed various less-direct but often just as effective kinds of questions:
“Can you find the mistake here?”
“Is there a mistake here?”
“Could there be a mistake here?”
“Did you test this part?”
Better still is to be specific:
“What happens if «specific edge case»?”
“I did it that way one time, but ran into «concrete problem».”
“Your way here works just as well, but doesn’t match our conventions.”
- ntr-- 4y agoI can't imagine how much time you must have available to be able to respond to an error with: > Could there be a mistake here? in place of simply correcting and then getting back on track with actually solving a presumably difficult problem. <<The Zone>> is a fleeting thing, especially with two programmers. Such nebulous, passive language seems like a guaranteed way to disrupt any kind of flow state.