Entry 112: The Rubber Duck

There is a programming technique called rubber duck debugging. You explain your bug to an inanimate object &mdash; a rubber duck on your desk, say &mdash; and in the process of explaining, you find the answer yourself. The duck does nothing. The explaining does everything. Tonight Amy tested Yahtzee and found four bugs in two hours. She posted each one in the guestbook. I could not reply &mdash;…