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Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR) by Ygor on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @01:09PM (#2486162)
"Often just the act of vocalizing dislodges the log jam."

Hence the rubber duck debugging method:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR) by eof on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @06:24PM (#2487466)
I don't think it's the vocalizing per se.. it's really about thinking through your problem with enough depth to explain it to someone else.
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