Duckie: Rubber Ducking as a service
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Duckie: Rubber Ducking as a service
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#3More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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#4It provided me with a really good solution to my problems:
Can you describe the problem in a paragraph? Please use small sentences, I'm only a duck.
> My colleagues are dumb!
>> Is your colleagues the thing that has the problem?
> yes
>> Can you explain what your colleagues does?
> They do very very dumb things.
>> Do you fully understand how it does what it does? Could you split your colleagues into smaller chunks?
> split them into chunks? Cheers duck, I think I have it now! grabs axe
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#5It provided me with a really good solution to my problems: Can you describe the problem in a paragraph? Please use small sentences, I'm only a duck. > My colleagues are dumb! >> Is your colleagues the thing that has the problem? > yes >> Can you explain what your colleagues does? > They do very very dumb things. >> Do you fully understand how it does what it does? Could you split your colleagues into smaller chunks?…
Yes, the awaited context is totally missing. Seems to be about programs only.
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#6An open, and subsequently abandoned, textarea on StackOverflow has rubber ducked me on more than one occasion.
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#7It provided me with a really good solution to my problems: Can you describe the problem in a paragraph? Please use small sentences, I'm only a duck. > My colleagues are dumb! >> Is your colleagues the thing that has the problem? > yes >> Can you explain what your colleagues does? > They do very very dumb things. >> Do you fully understand how it does what it does? Could you split your colleagues into smaller chunks?…
Yes, the awaited context is totally missing. Seems to be about programs only.
unfortunately so, we're looking into other contexts some some more specific programming ones.
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#8An open, and subsequently abandoned, textarea on StackOverflow has rubber ducked me on more than one occasion.
It was inspired by a mixture of turning it off and on again and that sharp intake of breath before 'nevermind'.
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#9Tried to make something like this a while ago[1] but the Eliza idea is a good one. Must be our agricultural East Anglian sense of humour. Wonder how many other farmyard animals could be turned into software as a service?
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#10Tried to make something like this a while ago[1] but the Eliza idea is a good one. Must be our agricultural East Anglian sense of humour. Wonder how many other farmyard animals could be turned into software as a service? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7720153
Nice! we started with a random response but decided to try and get some object recognition. it's a little like the thing small children do 'Why?' over and over.