Re: Confused about memory and collectgarbage("count") results

[Paige DePol <lual@...>]

On Apr 21, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org> wrote:
>>> On Apr 21, 2014, at 4:07 PM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> > PS: Please accept my apologies for the noise. This is now my second
>>> > question to this list that is both very basic and also answered by
>>> > myself. I promise, I do spend a great deal of time trying to solve
>>> > these things myself...Thank you for your graciousness. :)
>>> 
>> Sometimes I will draft an email to the list, then let it sit in my drafts folder for a bit while I let my brain percolate on the problem for a bit. Often the answer will come to me after a bit, then I delete the email.
>> 
>> Just the act of writing the email helps your brain to think of the problem in a different light, which will often times allow you find the solution to the problem. I thought I would share this technique as it may also work for you, or others! :)
>> 
>> ~pmd~
> 
> This is often called Rubber Duck Debugging (for the practice of explaining the problem to a rubber duck rather than a mailing list). Simply writing out a detailed explanation of the problem sufficient for others to understand it gets you thinking about it enough to find a solution in a lot of cases.
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my Game Boy.

That is a cute name, and is definitely something I do as it really does help. It is amazing how just expressing the problem in a different way is enough to `unstick` your brain, which may be too narrowly focused on the problem to see the solution!

~pmd~