[sdiy] Score: Silicon 1, Tim 0

[harry]

Probably the harders thing to do is troubleshoot alone...  More brains make
light work....

H^) harry

Magnus Danielson wrote:

> 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

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