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A blue rubberduck with an Australian flag and the text Australia printed on it, positioned on a white cup

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[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife is the programmer.

Instead of a rubber duck, I gave her a plush frog for her desk.

To help her catch all the bugs.

[–] theFibonacciEffect@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Oh that's cool

[–] prwnr@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I either solve the problem or get wrecked

[–] adolf_hitler@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago
[–] erre@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rubber duck

This or anyone near me 😅

[–] Arigion@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Ah finally another duck. I was thinking if I should also get a toy named cover, because whenever I hear duck my brain autocompletes: ...and cover. Because of this shit: https://youtu.be/zMnKNHNfznE :-)

[–] zeropublix@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I can’t post a picture of my wife, I wonder if she ever will understand it

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should probably post a picture of myself. I don't have count on how many times people have asked me for help but figuring it out while explaining it to me. Or me to them probably just as often.

[–] snaptastic 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if (bear with me here), you tried explaining the problem to a rubber duck instead of colleagues?

[–] marco 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a dev manager of a remote team: I would encourage my team to talk to each other over their favorite rubber animal anytime, if the opportunity is given.

This facilitates both knowledge sharing and teamwork.

[–] snaptastic 3 points 1 year ago

Yes and I agree, but the post was about rubber ducks, the whole point of which is not discussing with a person (at least not at first).

[–] arvere@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago
[–] lambda@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Okay, this is the second thing I've seen about rubber duck debugging. What does this mean? Am I a bad developer?

Edit: LFTL

[–] marco 4 points 1 year ago

the fact is that most ducks prefer to take a mentoring role

🦆 🤣

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Does a home-made crocheted Corgi count?

[–] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf 3 points 1 year ago

This is my dad's

[–] semi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago