Prompts for Programmers\\\Kevin Lawler\2015
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Add constraints
Backtrack
Blink lasts 300 milliseconds
Board up rabbit holes
Build the theory of the problem
Change your mind
Do it both ways
Do it the wrong way
Do something
Escape the usage vacuum
Every bug hunt is at worst\a log time search\through the code base
Feats are fragile
Flip the problem around
Forget about\optimizing your code
Form hypothesis,\test hypothesis,\repeat.
Get red and green right before mixing yellow
Get water flowing through the pipe
Have faith in sound-looking abstractions
Have goals and subdivide them
Have opinions
If you lack motivation
Is it a typo?
Is it the bug you think it is?
Keep calm
List dependencies\to determine order\of completion
Look for a good enough approximation
Look for a HACK
Look for ways to chain tools
Mark it WONTFIX
Power through
Put the problem aside and work on something else
Shear off a layer
Solve the problem directly
Stop and think
Take a closer look
Try the naive method first
Verify your assumptions\about the outside world\are correct
Verify your fears, explicity
Work append only
Work forward from where\the unfinished part of the\code suggests you should
Write down everything you know about the problem
Zoom in
