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My mentor's 10 minute rule actually broke my debug habit
My old team lead in Austin told me to walk away after 10 minutes of staring at code, and I thought it was lazy advice until last Tuesday when I spent 3 hours stuck on a null pointer that a coffee break would've caught. The break let my brain see that I was passing the wrong variable into a helper function, and the fix took 2 lines. Anyone else have advice that sounded dumb at first but turned out to be the most useful thing?
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tylerw921mo ago
That "wrong variable" part is the real kicker, most people think walking away means taking a nap but it's really about letting your brain sort the noise from the signal.
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