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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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>> Talking it through with colleague, partner, random stranger, pet etc
I equated this option to rubber ducking. I think rubber ducking is one of the most effective ways to get answers IMHO; at least for me it is.
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It works but the duck is always a reflection of yourself - I think it's better to use a colleague for that. At worst they are a rubber duck, at best they can give you insight with a question or an observation you didn't think of.
The reproduction of ideas is like the reproduction of life: alone it works, in team it works better.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I explained the concept to an intern after the fourth or fifth time she stopped over, asked me a question and walked away after she answered it herself.
Ended up getting a cowboy rubber duck as a thank you gift when she finished up the term.
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She sounds like a candidate to hire when she graduates.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That was my thought too but she got a job offer at another place which paid more, couldn't fault her for taking it instead.
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The good ones always seem to get away. We hired a technical writer fresh out of college, and she got assigned to write help text for my application. I wasn't expecting much, but I was amazed at her results. In a very short while she had converted our existing help from an ancient and decrepit authoring system to a new package, reorganized and rewrote a fair amount of the content, and had it ready to integrate with the application. She always asked intelligent and useful questions, and you never needed to explain something more than once.
Sadly, a graduate assistant-ship opened in linguistics (her primary interest) at a college out of the area and she left. I wrote her a recommendation letter (even though such things are against company policy) for when she went job hunting.
Software Zen: delete this;
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"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." (Mark Twain) - very nice quote ... oopps ... "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine" (Winston Churchill, 1944) ...  but not reallly
liked the signature, that's what i'm saying.
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In a discussion with people involved while drawing/writing on a whiteboard
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I use more paper than bits.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Thinking about the various aspects of the problem usually turns into potential solution. Does not matter whether I'm eating, exercising or am on the computer.
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When I am in a dead-end road and I *know* there's something wrong or I still miss that final spark for the idea of the right how-to, I start drawing.
A pencil, a sheet of paper (well, tbh, _many_ sheets of paper sometimes  ) and I start drawing ... things. mostly abstract structures, buildings, isometric some-things, I just let my hand and the pencil do whatever they want.
This also happens in design-meetings and jour-fixes, when I start thinking about the problem, the topic, whatever is currently discussed and it already has brought me problems, as other people don't understand that this is my way of "creative thinking" - they thought, I am totally uninterested and "play around with my paper" during that "important meeting"... always a fight to make them understand, that this is _exactly_ the way, I solve their problems. By drawing strange buildings on paper...
non-developers... the muggles of the it-companies... always the same 
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Absolutely. I do it ALL the time when I need to think. I struggled for years in college with professors thinking I was not interested or paying attention until they saw my class work. Another thing that I started doing in recent years is carving my drawings (I built my desk and have no problem replacing the top when necessary - haha, don't ask...). Funny thing, is how much it opens up my mind to creative thinking for problem solving. So yes, I completely 100% agree with you!
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Yaay! I am not alone!  ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
I KNEW it. There must be someone out there!
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