Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪My best debugging strategy remains formulating a #StackOverflow post to explain the "massive, totally unsolvable" problem that I am facing. Once I've written the post with a nice reproducible example (or gotten at least halfway through), the solution magically occurs to me! #Rstats #coding 🪄🦄
Andrew Abdalian@ElenLeFoll this reminds of “rubber duck programming”, where you’re meant to keep a rubber duck or some other inanimate object on your desk, and when you get stuck, explain to it what you’re trying to do and where you’re stuck. Doesn’t just work for programming, obviously, but the name originated there.
I think what I’m saying is that Stack Overflow is your rubber duck.