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Answering your own questions

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Thanks to my boss's attempt to make the office smell less like a dirty laundry basket my mind is now clouded with shake 'n' vac and I'm really quite light headed. This is making programming and even lifting one's coffee cup to one's mouth quite a challenge.

Anyway my productivity has slowed and I'm making basic mistakes all over the place, and I very nearly made a post in the Code forums before realising halfway through what the problem was (for the second or third time this week).

Does anyone else find that they get halfway through making a post and then work it all out themselves? It's satisfying but doesn't do your post count any favours... been here on and off for 3 years this month with a pitiful post count of 173! I should open my mouth more or at least get confident enough to help more people out!
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Dead right. I often get right through making my post then submit it. Once I read it back to myself I figure it out :D

Sod's law.

I'm the same at work. I'll be stuck on something for ages, just mulling it over in my mind. Then I try to get help from a collegaue and as soon as I verbally explain the problem it just clicks what's gone wrong ;)
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Happens to me all the time,

Me: "Dave, you got a min?"

Dave: "Yeah sure, what's up"

Me: "Fancy a quick code review? It's going pete tong and I can't see why"

Dave: "Ok, let's have a look"

Me: "Right.. user inputs this, that and the other, then click submit and AHA! Found the problem, all ok now"

Dave: "Glad I could be of assistance, be sure to comment in my peer's report for my next pay review."

Me: lol

Dave: lol

:lol:
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Jenk wrote:Happens to me all the time,

Me: "Dave, you got a min?"

Dave: "Yeah sure, what's up"

Me: "Fancy a quick code review? It's going pete tong and I can't see why"

Dave: "Ok, let's have a look"

Me: "Right.. user inputs this, that and the other, then click submit and AHA! Found the problem, all ok now"

Dave: "Glad I could be of assistance, be sure to comment in my peer's report for my next pay review."

Me: lol

Dave: lol

:lol:
Yep that's all too familiar :) It does help to explain the problem out loud I think though.
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Post by n00b Saibot »

Guess like we are discussing another bit of human pyschology here again :)

PS: Sometimes it applies to me too 8O
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Used to happen at work - all I'd have to do is admit to bossman that something appeared broken and I'd sort it out. Sometimes it just takes explaining the question to some one else to help you see sense lol.

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Actually, explaining the problem out loud to the boss can be a particularly good move. My boss has read 23 pages of his new PHP and MySQL book (basically the contents pages) and understands nada, so if I talk out loud about the thing I'm struggling to code he
a) can't tell if I'm just being an idiot
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b) admires my problem solving skills when I realise what I should have done! :D
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This reminds me by support center personel.

Me: Hello i have a problem regarding implementation of your active X.

Him: What error.

Me: Throws a error code: 12021 without a specific error message

Him: Yes, not i know is a problem between lines 2000 and 2021, i will contact you with patch tomorrow.

Me: But i need you to solve it for me today, not tomorrow.

Him: Yes but is a large error cause by the fact that your system is not compatible with our program, as i said we will contact you tomorrow.

Me: Should i give you system details

Him: No need, thank you. (he hangs up).
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Re: Answering your own questions

Post by Buddha443556 »

Skittlewidth wrote:Does anyone else find that they get halfway through making a post and then work it all out themselves?
Me too ... almost like team programming ... me and phpDN. :D
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