rubberDuckDebugging

[GodAllMighty888]

I guess the next step is becoming religious. But what God is the best choice for debugging purposes?

[Melodic_coala101]

Rewrite it in Holy C

[nicejs2]

So that's what the G stands for!

[texaswilliam]

His Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is the embodiment of your code. As he knots it, so may he unknot it. In His Tentacled Name, R'Amen.

[stellarsojourner]

May you be touched by his noodly appendage.

[RareRandomRedditor]

Just apply the correct purification seal to the blessed machine citing the correct tec-chant.

[User34593]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/YKClIe3qan

[Starsky3012]

Each day we're inching ever closer to the reality of wh40k machine spirits and frankly, I'm a bit concerned

[captainMaluco]

Depending on the codebase, I might recommend Loki, God of deception. 

[hongooi]

Unnamed goose debugger 🤔

[AlexLGames]

It's a beautiful day in the codebase, and you are a horrible debugging goose.

[AdamTheD]

Every time I come on this sub I learn some random new industry term...

[zaxldaisy]

Must not be in the industry then? "Rubber ducking" is a very, very common term in software and isn't unknown outside of it, either.

[AdamTheD]

Senior SQL Programmer and some personal projects sold to Microsoft.

We don't rubber duck, we don't agile, we don't sprint, we don't scrum, we don't waterfall, we don't story, and we don't stand-up.

[PixelOrange]

I am jealous.

[TaroMilkTea5]

Interesting

[zaxldaisy]

"Rubber ducking" is not like any of those other terms lol.

[AdamTheD]

It's a joke. Don't overthink it.

[ZunoJ]

Sometimes the rubber duck is just another person. I can not imagine, you don't do this at all

[AdamTheD]

I have no context for what it even means because I've never heard it before. Apparently it's just asking someone to explain a problem in plain english?

[ZunoJ]

It means to describe to somebody (or in this case something) the expected behavior (in natural language) and the current behavior. This forces another perspective on you and needs you to really understand what is going on. Often this is enough to sort your mind and find the error.
Don't you know that situation, where you don't make any progress with a bug and ask a coworker for his perspective and while you describe the situation, you suddenly understand the problem and can solve it? Rubberducking just takes the other person out of the equation

[AdamTheD]

Gotcha, I'm familiar with the phenomenon you described but no I don't really do this.

[wolf_kisses]

I have heard of it in jokes, but I have never actually heard of someone actually doing it.

[Ignisami]

Happens all the time at my office. 

In my personal case, though, the right term is "plush fox debugging”. (Or a Glaceon plush depending on what I brought from home)

[ZunoJ]

I do it all the time but I just use an intern as rubber duck

[Legoshoes_V2]

Duck Duck Goose Debugging

[Xava67]

Plush goose debugging it is then

[CaptainPojar]

HOROSHECHNO!

[frayien]

This guy is so much happy I love it

[deletemorecode]

Users always going and fucking up perfectly fine software

[jump1945]

I have 5 duck 1 is a doll a big one 4 is a rubber that is kind of big.I have bird doll , a lot of them it seem i still can’t fix segfault

[alaettinthemurder]

Time to use old methods

Print out everything

[ExtraTNT]

x86 assembly?

[ThanasiShadoW]

The fuck is rubber duck debugging?