The article is written for normal people who understand the idea of a rule of thumb, not for programmers whose years of working with computers have made them ov

The article is written for normal people who understand the idea of a rule of thumb, not for programmers whose years of working with computers have made them overly literal. > It is indeed a valuable solution, we’ve know this for a long time, The number of times I've had to practically kidnap some brilliant engineer and take them to an arcade or a bowling alley or someplace like that to make them stop sitting all day at their desk trying to think past some hard problem they were stuck on suggests that it is not as well known as it should be.