On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:09:42 +0200 notoneofmyseeds <notoneofmyse...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 01:41 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Another illustration of this: > > > > "Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to > > someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. > > Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an > > embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This > > works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. > > One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. > > Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear > > before they could speak to a human counselor." > Well noted. And many thanks. It's either this, or I walk away for a > while. But I find that hard to do, believing that, just one more try and > it will work; just a sec that turns into days. > > yes - normally asking the list after giving it the old college try is a good thing. except when it comes to cups, then crying for help immediately gets a free pass in my opinion. i have had similar miserable experiences setting up cups and my printer has a driver FROM THE MANUFACTURER FOR CUPS. does it work ? hell no. had to use the open source driver. in fact, it's broken right now because i refuse to step back into that quagmire. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150610220523.00a99...@cedar.deldotd.com
