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Re:Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Adv... by kannmig on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:07PM (#19120252)
> A former colleague of mine had a teddy bear on his desk, before you could ask for his advice you had to take the teddy and explain your problem out loud to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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Re:Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Adv... by tomjen3 on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:37AM (#19121698)
Somebody at work ordered 50 rubber duckies on ali express, apparently that was cheaper than buying a few or something, so everybody who wanted one got a debug duck.

Turns out you also have to use them for it to have any benefit, and most people don't.

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