The "Aha! Moment"
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you have been stuck for hours and hours trying to solve something or fix something , whether be it an assignment, work or a home project. You feel you have checked every single tutorial Google had to offer and none of them helped :wtf: . Just as you are about to give up, a random thought comes to you,to which by some miracle is the unified solution to your problem. You get this rush and suddenly you scream out "Aha!" Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
I feel more often its a "DOH!" moment, as Why didn't I think of that much earlier or How could I have missed that. Just earlier today I was trying to get some AjaxToolkits working and I couldn't understand why my changes weren't coming through. Till DOH!, I edited one page and viewed another. After that everything came together and I had been right all along.
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Any support I provide is from afar. Anyway, you know you're getting old when you realise that it's stupid to pass up on a toilet opportunity.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
You know you're getting old when you think you need to fart, but you're afraid to because you don't know what's really going to come out...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
you have been stuck for hours and hours trying to solve something or fix something , whether be it an assignment, work or a home project. You feel you have checked every single tutorial Google had to offer and none of them helped :wtf: . Just as you are about to give up, a random thought comes to you,to which by some miracle is the unified solution to your problem. You get this rush and suddenly you scream out "Aha!" Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
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You know you're getting old when you think you need to fart, but you're afraid to because you don't know what's really going to come out...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I won't even risk a fart these days unless I'm within wobbling distance of the can.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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you have been stuck for hours and hours trying to solve something or fix something , whether be it an assignment, work or a home project. You feel you have checked every single tutorial Google had to offer and none of them helped :wtf: . Just as you are about to give up, a random thought comes to you,to which by some miracle is the unified solution to your problem. You get this rush and suddenly you scream out "Aha!" Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
I have my “Aha!” moment every Friday after the end of the work day.
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I can't remember exactly, but those moments are fun, plus the info stays with you forever. I mean it's nice/fun at the end, sometimes I even laugh at myself. But, until the "aha" moment, really not fun.
All the best, Dan
MDL=>Moshu wrote:
can't remember exactly
MDL=>Moshu wrote:
plus the info stays with you forever
Unfortunately, the information evidently did not stay with you forever in this case. ;-)
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Thankfully, I'm trying now to compose myself to prevent any of their detritus invading my memory.
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I won't even risk a fart these days unless I'm within wobbling distance of the can.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
The two of you need to hold hands, in a toilet, farm far, far from the rest of us. This is getting entirely too bizarre. Next you'll be swapping Viagra stories...
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you have been stuck for hours and hours trying to solve something or fix something , whether be it an assignment, work or a home project. You feel you have checked every single tutorial Google had to offer and none of them helped :wtf: . Just as you are about to give up, a random thought comes to you,to which by some miracle is the unified solution to your problem. You get this rush and suddenly you scream out "Aha!" Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
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I have one every time I manage to pull off a righteous dump (that's getting more difficult to do as I get older).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I have one every time I manage to pull off a righteous dump (that's getting more difficult to do as I get older).
Classic. :laugh:
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"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011) -
MDL=>Moshu wrote:
can't remember exactly
MDL=>Moshu wrote:
plus the info stays with you forever
Unfortunately, the information evidently did not stay with you forever in this case. ;-)
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you have been stuck for hours and hours trying to solve something or fix something , whether be it an assignment, work or a home project. You feel you have checked every single tutorial Google had to offer and none of them helped :wtf: . Just as you are about to give up, a random thought comes to you,to which by some miracle is the unified solution to your problem. You get this rush and suddenly you scream out "Aha!" Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
HappyMan811 wrote:
Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
I had one when I solved the Poincaré conjecture. I let some Russian guy take the credit, though.
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MDL=>Moshu wrote:
can't remember exactly
MDL=>Moshu wrote:
plus the info stays with you forever
Unfortunately, the information evidently did not stay with you forever in this case. ;-)
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MDL=>Moshu wrote:
can't remember exactly
MDL=>Moshu wrote:
plus the info stays with you forever
Unfortunately, the information evidently did not stay with you forever in this case. ;-)
You remember the feeling but not the details. This is also called middle age :-O.
Software Zen:
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Any support I provide is from afar. Anyway, you know you're getting old when you realise that it's stupid to pass up on a toilet opportunity.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
it's stupid to pass up on a toilet opportunity
Wheeler Rule #1: Never miss an opportunity to pee. This became rule #1 after spending two hours in a traffic jam with a full bladder. My kidneys hurt for days afterward.
Software Zen:
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you have been stuck for hours and hours trying to solve something or fix something , whether be it an assignment, work or a home project. You feel you have checked every single tutorial Google had to offer and none of them helped :wtf: . Just as you are about to give up, a random thought comes to you,to which by some miracle is the unified solution to your problem. You get this rush and suddenly you scream out "Aha!" Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
I've been struggling for days trying to figure out why my character in my XNA game can walk through walls, when I find a way to draw actual BoundingSphere's. Turns out XNA's BoungingSphere.Intersect(BoundingSphere2) method's version of "Intersects" actually means "Contains"! A single screenshot of my "A HA!" moment: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/135815/KT%20Pics/boundingSpheres.jpg[^]
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you have been stuck for hours and hours trying to solve something or fix something , whether be it an assignment, work or a home project. You feel you have checked every single tutorial Google had to offer and none of them helped :wtf: . Just as you are about to give up, a random thought comes to you,to which by some miracle is the unified solution to your problem. You get this rush and suddenly you scream out "Aha!" Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
My biggest "Aha" moment came to me when I realized that almost every problem I face has already been solved by some one else. And if the problem hasn't been solved by some one else, I probably need to look at the problem from a different perspective. I gladly now call myself a hack. Maybe someday I will have an original idea, but until then I will be happy learning from others. This philosophy is the secret to my (somewhat limited) success. Ronald Reagan said it best. There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.
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Constantly. It's an indicator that you are doing some real coding and not just some boiler plate stuff and plumbing. Just yesterday I was giving the rendering of my XNA user interface an overhaul. When drawing a tree of forms or controls you have to juggle with several coordinate systems and also have to perform clipping on partially hidden controls, no matter what coordinate system you must use at the moment. There were some bugs like hidden controls that were not clipped or objects which were drawn at the wrong places due to some confusion in the coordinate systems. A mess, because everything I tried had side effects on other things, And finally, after a while, I had gathered enough information and everything fell into place at once.
And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
"Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"And I smiled and was happy
And it came worse.I quite agree, it's an exaggeration to say it happens daily, but it certainly feels that way. What is more unique, is when you are with a group of senior, bright people, pondering a problem and you realize you are the one that is delivering the correct solution to the problem. The hairs don't go up on the back of my neck, but I feel a heat there and a lightheartedness as though I have levitated a few inches higher. It's like I can't believe for that brief moment, I was the smartest one in the room. It's sort of a delicious tickle. But a more interesting moment, is when you are with a group of people discussing a problem, and usually there is an older and wiser head that comes up with the solution that will be followed, but then you realize everyone is looking at you. The realization that you have become that "older and wiser" head is a little daunting. You no longer have a safety net and are expected to supply the solution. There will be no warning when this occurs.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Any support I provide is from afar. Anyway, you know you're getting old when you realise that it's stupid to pass up on a toilet opportunity.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Hmm, does that have anything to do with your previous comment:
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Either it won't come at all or too much comes.
? ;P
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you have been stuck for hours and hours trying to solve something or fix something , whether be it an assignment, work or a home project. You feel you have checked every single tutorial Google had to offer and none of them helped :wtf: . Just as you are about to give up, a random thought comes to you,to which by some miracle is the unified solution to your problem. You get this rush and suddenly you scream out "Aha!" Have you ever had that moment? Please share your aha! moment.
When this happens to me, it's often in the bathroom. I'll be working on a problem at the computer for hours, then when I take a bathroom break the answer suddenly comes to me. I suspect the change in my environment and activities causes a change in my thinking on the problem. I then think about the problem from a fresh perspective, avoiding the cycles of unproductive thought patterns that weren't getting me anywhere. At the same time, the details of the problem are fresh in my mind, allowing me to easily consider them from fresh perspectives.
