There is an entire development methodology (whose name escapes me at the moment) that makes use of that very phenomenon.
It has happened so many times to so many people where a developer goes to explain their problem to others in the team and the very act of having to formulate the question in ones mind seems to make things click. On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 05:47, David A. Mann wrote: > Hi all, > > I got halfway through typing out a question regarding a small awk script > I've been working on, and it must have kick-started my brain. I no > longer have a problem. The process of explaining a problem tends to do > that :) > > The answer turned out to be related to how my LCD program reads its named > pipe. My own stupid fault... fixed in the meantime with an extra line in > the awk script. > > So there is no question... and I finally have a working ppp traffic > monitor on my LCD module (just bytes in/out since the link was brought > up, with a little bit of formatting). > > Cheers, > > - Dave > > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ > > >
