unstuck

But then a piece of duct tape comes unstuck. You say: Replace that duct tape with something more durable.

This time we had the benefit of Lyle Ramshaw to get us unstuck. Would that I'd known Lyle in 1986; but it was too late 3 years later when I got to know him.

They re-run some command, the process is unstuck. They close the ticket with "cron job was stuck, kicked it and it's succeeding again."

My trick for getting unstuck is to start maintenance on the part where I'm stuck. Any kind of cleanup, comment clarification and so on will do.

Of being unstuck in time and space, a sort of vertigo upon realization that the universe is huge. Cyan Worlds manage to nail that effect while removing fear or tension.

So sometime later, as a result of thermal expansion or mechanical flexing, the solder joint becomes unstuck. This is called a "cold joint".

#1 from above gets beginners unstuck, while #2 will allow them to slowly evaluate different pieces of the stack over time. It's important to understand the "why", not only the "how".

When you get stuck, you will have to find a way to get unstuck: by getting educated, by consulting others, by finding others' solutions, or just by old fashioned figuring it out. How often?

Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up." I use a similar technique when brainstorming, after all the obvious good ideas are exhausted.

Which can be the genesis of good ideas and help us get unstuck, contributing to team creativity and productivity. 3.

In one of DeMarco's other books -- I can't now recall if it was PeopleWare or The Deadline -- he explains how arbitrary deadlines come unstuck. Because people learn that they are arbitrary.

Asking a concrete, directed question meant to understand part of the problem and get him "unstuck" would probably have been fine and expected.

Get unstuck. Although, I will annotate to your analysis -- the reason I started this particular company was that I wanted to make a difference.

Social support, similarly motivated peers, role models, and even just the knowledge that they have access to expertise that can get them unstuck when they're tired and frustrated are huge factors in getting people to learn. They will be more fearless, more intrepid, and work their way up to a place where they have the confidence and skill to both learn on their own and on the job.

For instance, the German Blitzkrieg was extraordinarily effective against the static French defences in 1940, but the same forces and tactics came unstuck in 1941 when faced with a vicious winter and the Russian scorched earth style of defence. With reference to the hacker context, the lesson is that simply moving quickly isn't enough.

When I'm stuck in traffic, I consider that a time to submerge the ego, embrace the virtue of patience, and realize that the goal of all drivers should be for everyone to get everyone unstuck and return to normal traffic flow. So rather than sit bumper-to-bumper, I will open a car-sized space ahead of me, and intentionally allow "line jumper" cars to enter it.

The aircon in the room had also failed so I had a combined MRI and sauna; which meant the sensor pads kept coming unstuck and so I kept 'flatlining' and had to be removed from the scanner a couple of times for more bits of surgical tape.

Certainly some rip-off merchants do come unstuck; I've heard about what would have been extremely lucrative sales of very expensive specialist equipment that got flushed when the prospective customer discovered some form of artificial nerfing in software and took their cash to someone else who didn't do that. But it seems that everyday hardware and software are in one big race to the bottom.

For instance, the German Blitzkrieg was extraordinarily effective against the static French defences in 1940, but the same forces and tactics came unstuck in 1941 when faced with a vicious winter and the Russian scorched earth style of defence." Nah, the reason it came unstuck is because the Germans ran out of fuel and because overrunning Stalingrad became a point of pride with Hitler and the Wermacht...

To get out of being stuck, The most effective way I've ever found to get unstuck is to get away from the computer. I take pencils, paper, and code listings and get away, always into another room, sometimes to another building. I have learned that the reason I'm stuck is not because I don't know how to do something; it's because I don't know what to do. What needs to be determined away from the computer; how can be determined at the computer. and to avoid getting stuck in the first place. This is the one time I disagree with OP. Getting stuck is not the problem; getting unstuck is. If you're not getting stuck on a regular basis, then you're probably not working on big enough problems. Never getting stuck makes programming like almost any other vocation. For me, getting stuck and then getting unstuck and making something cool work for the first time ever is one of the best feelings you can have.

This is actually one of the few useful points in Pirsig's _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_: getting stuck is a bug report, and getting unstuck is debugging. It's worth a short quote: ___ Okay, I say. I tell him getting stuck is the commonest trouble of all. Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when youre trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do is try not to force words to come. That just gets you more stuck. What you have to do now is separate out the things and do them one at a time. Youre trying to think of what to say and what to say first at the same time and thats too hard. So separate them out. Just make a list of all the things you want to say in any old order. Then later well figure out the right order. ___ Pirsig is talking about writing here, but he also applies it to motorcycles and it can apply equally well to programming. The key thing is that stuckness is inside your head, and having tools to get yourself unstuck is vital.