[sdiy] Score: Silicon 1, Tim 0

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Lincoln Fong" <Linc at christeld.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Score: Silicon 1, Tim 0
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:05:45 -0000

> 
> Tim wrote:
> 
> >>Success!  After a bit of futzing with the code, the
> >>>DAC is responding nicely!  Whew!
> 
> >>Well THAT took all day. Started at 9am, got 1/4 of the
> >>circuit working at 10:30pm. Its Miller time!
> 
> Funny but when I read your previous 'I quit' email my first instinct was to
> think of all the times when giving up has immediately preceeded the
> essential inspiration.

Actually, sometimes you have this thing as franticlly running around
screaming that you can't fix it... explaining it to a colleage and
saying and this and this do not work either when I do this, but this
did, but that is not relevant since... OUPS! I haven't tried that,
have I? <running back to lab> Phew.. got it! Sorry!

Lesson? When explaining a problem to someone else who is not involved,
you are more carefull about the details than you are to yourself or an
involved fellow colleague. Since the devil is in the details, the
added precission migth be just what you need. Conversly, one can help
someone by just being there listening to them. You migth have the
worst of headaches, be totally wacked etc, but being there and trying
to listen just do the trick.

Cheers,
Magnus - have passively solved many things, not to my credit