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Discussion on: What's the best thing to do when you've run into a debugging dead end?

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Suzanne Aitchison

Make a cup of coffee > Explain the problem to someone else > Have a mid-sentence brainwave > Run away back to desk and fix in seconds > Have existential crisis about why that took so long

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Dublin Anondson

This so much. There's just something extra about talking to a person instead of a duck.

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Suzanne Aitchison

And the face-palm moment that inevitably follows 😂

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Cassidy

This always works for me too! I try to explain the problem like ours the first time I’ve ever seen it.