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Is 15 minutes enough time? It might be a small point of contention, but why not an hour?

• twoodfin 13y ago
  I think "stuck" means you don't have any idea how to make progress. It's not the same thing as, say, encountering a problem in an area of the code you've never dealt with before. In that case, spending an hour or more working through the source is likely worthwhile. 15 minutes of documenting exactly why you have no idea how to proceed sounds about right. If you need longer, you probably haven't whittled down the problem sufficiently, and you can make progress that way.
  • mfringel 13y ago
    Author here. That's more or less how I define it. "stuck" means "completely stuck," as in "no forward progress." More importantly, by the time a person realizes they're going in circles, they've actually been going in circles for probably twice as long.