So many times, walking away and taking a break has given me time to think about the problem and then come back to the code with a fresh perspective. There's something about being away from the computer and being unable to actually look at or change the code that leaves you free to actually analyse the issue and often you'll come back to it with a new approach that solves the problem
Its so relieving to see that I am not the only one who walks away from computer to think about problem.
I always go and find a quite place to think when I get these "hard-to-reproduce" bugs.
So many times, walking away and taking a break has given me time to think about the problem and then come back to the code with a fresh perspective. There's something about being away from the computer and being unable to actually look at or change the code that leaves you free to actually analyse the issue and often you'll come back to it with a new approach that solves the problem
Its so relieving to see that I am not the only one who walks away from computer to think about problem.
I always go and find a quite place to think when I get these "hard-to-reproduce" bugs.
Yup, totally agree. I think our minds run background tasks aimed at solving the problem. I wrote some thoughts about this here: Problem=solution