Weinberg, 41, looks a little like vintage Elvis Costello has joined your fantasy baseball league. “Search should be one of the most private spaces on the internet,” he says, “because people are typing in their most sensitive problems and issues.”
“We had a time of the week where there were ‘office hours.’” It was an experience that stuck with him, even if the seed took years to sprout. With this newfound power, he created a way for his father, an infectious-disease doctor, to answer people’s questions about HIV and AIDS. By using an inanimate object, the programmer can try to accomplish this without having to interrupt anyone else.In 1991, Weinberg, while in the sixth grade, began exploring online bulletin-board systems and figured out how to set up his own. More generally, teaching a subject forces its evaluation from different perspectives and can provide a deeper understanding. In describing what the code is supposed to do and observing what it actually does, any incongruity between these two becomes apparent.
Many programmers have had the experience of explaining a problem to someone else, possibly even to someone who knows nothing about programming, and then hitting upon the solution in the process of explaining the problem. Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different inanimate objects. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck. In software engineering, rubber duck debugging or rubber ducking is a method of debugging code. Rubber ducking increases agency and we at AE Studio like building products that increase agency with technology. Rubber ducking is a powerful method for solving even the most complex problems This extension is just a fun little thing to remind you to Rubber Duck, that you can talk to the duck, and that seeing the little icon in Chrome will prime you to be likely to take a step back and rubber duck and that might save you a lot of time and increase your productivity.
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