From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: How to tell gdb to exit?
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040506184211.GA13750@grante.dsl.visi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oep1bdy6.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>
>> I messed around with this on and off for days, and couldn't
>> find the answer, but as soon as I put my foot in my mouth
>> publically, the answer appears. Odd, that.
>
> I actually find that this is a fairly effective technique for solving
> a problem. Send out a message, and then the answer occurs to you.
> The more people to whom you send the message, the more likely you are
> to find the answer yourself.
One might think that the answer should occur while one is
composing the message -- trying to explain the problem in
sufficient detail for others to understand often sometimes
reveals a solution. While this does happen, it also seems that
at least as often the answer appears about 20 minutes later.
> I've learned to exploit this fact by composing the message but
> delaying the actual sending for a period of time. Sometimes the
> answer will come to me before the message actually goes out.
I should try that...
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-06 15:50 Grant Edwards
2004-05-06 16:09 ` Grant Edwards
2004-05-06 16:16 ` Grant Edwards
2004-05-06 16:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-06 16:35 ` Grant Edwards
2004-05-06 19:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-06 18:36 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-05-06 18:42 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2004-05-06 16:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-06 16:11 ` Grant Edwards
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