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

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  To: Roedy Green
From: Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>

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 "Andreas Leitgeb" <andreas.leitgeb@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:11 +0000
  Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "Andreas Leitgeb" <andreas.leitgeb@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:11 +0000
    Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "markspace" <markspace@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:11 +0000
      Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given valu "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:12 +0000
        Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "Daniel Pitts" <daniel.pitts@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:12 +0000
          Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "Andreas Leitgeb" <andreas.leitgeb@1:261/38.remove-yy0-this> - 2012-08-03 18:54 +0000

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