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Old 05-31-2021, 08:40 PM   #78307
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The term for this in the industry is "rubber ducking." Some people will buy an actual rubber duck and leave it on their desk. Basically the idea is you walk through your problem/code either with a person or just talking it out to the inanimate object. By doing that, you use a different thought process to explain it. While doing that you can sometimes realize you've been going about it wrong and your usual thought process isn't able to figure that out.
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