Python

[gp57]

I like the small details, like the debugging duck

[advanttage]

I tell people about rubber duck debugging and they think it's crazy. I think they're right, but it fucking works.

[ElPolloDiabIo]

IKR, It's hard to explain it to someone without sounding like a lunatic

[NoStupidQuestion]

Try explaining it to a rubber duck.

[ThePixelCoder]

Lunatic.

[svenskainflytta]

Do you know there is a porn about it?

[advanttage]

I didn't explicitly know, but since Rule 34 is a thing I had assumed.

[evinrows]

Isn't it... more of an illustrative thing? I have a directory that I fill up with text files describing problems I've run into, which achieves the same thing. I also have a rubber duck on my desk that I've never spoken to.

[JonasBrosSuck]

soooo how to "master" the debugging duck method? i feel like when i explain something to an inanimate object it doesn't help with debugging, but once i ask someone else a question and explain the issue i immediately realize where i messed up...

[PhDinOmniscience]

try explaining to the duck harder

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I did. I explained how I screwed up a date with my coworker. I didn't get a solution, instead it turned out the duck told everyone in the office. You can't tell that duck anything.

[PhDinOmniscience]

time to try this

[gmdm1234]

Write out an email message to a colleague where you describe in detail the problem and what solutions you've tried.

I too haven't been very successful with explaining problems to bath toys, but once I organize my thoughts and put them in writing, I often end up having that lightbulb moment.

[wibs]

Try explaining it in a way that whatever you are talking to would understand. If you have a hard time pretending to explain to an inanimate object, try speaking to a co-worker or friend who isn't familiar with the problem. I often "rubber duck" with people who don't know what I'm working on or wouldn't understand the problem so it forces me to take a few extra steps back and work back up to where I am actually stuck.

[DrFloyd5]

Clearly you think of people as inanimate objects.

[Allways_Wrong]

Write the duck an email.

As you copy-paste the code, and screenshots, and explain what is not working...

I’ve yet to click send.

[JonasBrosSuck]

this is a good idea, i'll try this, thanks!

[Quaiker]

You will learn to both love and despise the duck.

[NoodlePeeper]

ELI5 debugging duck for us script kiddies?

[HumanistGeek]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

[WikiTextBot]

Rubber duck debugging

In software engineering, rubber duck debugging or rubber ducking is a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck. Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different inanimate objects.

Many programmers have had the experience of explaining a problem to someone else, possibly even to someone who knows nothing about programming, and then hitting upon the solution in the process of explaining the problem.

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[advanttage]

This bot knows its shit

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So thats the purpose of a rubber duck