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Discussion on: What's the best thing to do when you've run into a debugging dead end?

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leob • Edited

Take a break, walk, cycle, sleep, come back tomorrow :-)

But when it's mega urgent or you're super fanatic and determined to "just solve it" then following this advice is hard.

An alternative (well, one of the many alternatives) is to "google it". It continuous to amaze me how many problems can be solved in that manner.

To optimize this work on your "vocabulary", the more words/synonyms you know (and the more "background knowledge" you have), the greater the chance of finding something - use a certain generic term and you'll often find nothing usable, but use a more accurate term or focused synonym and it's frequently "bingo".