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Look for a hack.
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Look for a good enough approximation.
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Have faith in sound-looking abstractions.
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Forget about optimizing your code.
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Solve the problem directly.
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Feats are fragile.
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Build a theory of the problem.
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Shear off a layer.
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Get red and green right before mixing yellow.
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A blink lasts 300 milliseconds.
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Zoom in.
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Add constraints.
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Mark it: WONTFIX
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Write the README
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Verify your fears, explicitly.
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Keep calm.
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Take a closer look.
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Is it the bug you think it is?
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Is it a typo?
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Stop and think.
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If you lack motivation, find the most interesting thing and branch from there.
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Work append-only.
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Run through the thornbushes.
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Change your mind.
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Power through.
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Look for ways to chain tools.
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Backtrack.
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Flip the problem around.
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Work forward from where the unfinished part of the code suggests you should.
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List dependencies to determine order of completion.
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Try the naïve method first.
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Do it both ways.
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Verify that your assumptions are correct.
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Every bug hunt is at worst a log time search through the code base.
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Write down everything you know about the problem.
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This process usually converges: If you're stuck, finish some remaining piece. Then go back and check to see what new possibilities opened up. Repeat.
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Form hypothesis, test hypothesis, repeat.
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Have opinions.
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Have goals and subdivide them.
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Do it the wrong way.
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Do something.
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Put the problem aside and work on something else.
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A line has two sides.
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Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture).
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Always, first steps.
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Ask your body.
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Breathe deeply.
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Cascades.
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Consider changing nothing, continue with immaculate consistency.
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Cluster analysis.
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Consult other sources.
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Courage!
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Cut a vital connection.
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Decorate, decorate.
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"Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor."
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Discard an axiom.
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Disconnect from desire.
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"Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do."
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"Don't be frightened of cliches."
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"Don't break the silence."
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Do some clean up.
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Do the names need changing?
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Emphasize differences.
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Emphasize repetition.
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Emphasize the flaws.
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Give way to your worst impulse.
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Honor the error as a hidden intention.
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How would you have done it?
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Infinitesimal gradations.
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Is it finished?
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Is there something missing?
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Keep going.
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Look at a very small object, look at its centre.
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Look at the order in which you are doing things.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you could do. Do the last thing on the list.
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Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate.
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Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics.
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Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities.
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Repetition is a form of change.
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Go the other direction.
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Take a break.
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Stand up.
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Look away for a while.
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Tidy up.
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Twist the spine.
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Use an old idea.
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Water.
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What were you really thinking about just now? Incorporate.
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What mistakes did you make last time?
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What would someone you admire do?
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What wouldn't you do?
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Work at a different speed.
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You are an engineer.
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Take a walk.
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Look to the left and the right.
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Stretch your neck.
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