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Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given value...

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On 8/2/12 1:20 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:48:20 -0700, markspace <-@.> wrote, quoted or
> indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> save the request on disc and go to lunch.
>
> Bertrand Russell "told" me about this years ago.  You have to get away
> from your computer. He suggested even a week of "not" thinking about
> it for a toughie. Then when you revisit the problem, the answer will
> be right under your nose.
>
> I just think about the problem while walking.  The details are cleared
> away so I have to think more abstractly. I ask myself , what could be
> failing that created those symptoms.  I am not looking for particular
> code, just thinking about code that does some function.  It is a
> different sort of thinking than trying to decide if a line of code is
> faulty.
>
> Of course Murphy's law says the most likely time for the answer to
> come to you is one second after hitting submit.
If we're talking about Murphy, then by submit you mean "deploy the hack 
workaround fix to production after a month of QA".

;-)

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SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given value... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-08-01 19:45 +0000
  Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given value... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-08-01 20:19 +0000
    Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given value... markspace <-@.> - 2012-08-01 14:48 -0700
      Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given value... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-08-02 01:20 -0700
        Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given value... Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-08-02 09:53 -0700
          Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given value... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-08-03 00:55 +0000

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