Re: Re: Tricking Our Egos

[davorg]

in reply to Re: Tricking Our Egos
in thread Tricking Our Egos

I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds that explaining the problem out loud to another programmer often gets me past blocks like this.

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<http://www.dave.org.uk>

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me

[Nooks]

I've heard this referred to as the `mannequin effect', so named because it would appear to be useful to have a mannequin on a trolley that one could simply get up, go fetch, and talk to about the problem (as opposed to bothering a presumably busy human about it).

Update: Of course, the mention was right here on PerlMonks (not Advogato as I'd previously thought). See this node, by lemming.