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supern0vayesterday at 11:25 PM1 replyview on HN

I assure you that if you rubber duck at another engineer that doesn't understand what you're doing, you will also be pummeled with information that may or may not be relevant. ;)


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stephenrtoday at 1:16 AM

That isn't rubber duck debugging. It's just talking to someone about the problem.

The entire point of rubber duck debugging is that the other side literally cannot respond - it's an inanimate object, or even a literal duck/animal.

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