Why shouldn't someone consult some kind of external resource for help, after struggling with a specific coding problem for 20 minutes? Why is 6 hours the right amount of time to timebox this to?

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demorro 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

20 minutes is not enough time to drive you into a state of desperation, where you may be forced to try something novel which will expand your mind and future capabilities in unknown and unexpected ways. You might be driven to contact another human being, for example.

	▲	YesBox an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I was typing up a long and somewhat boring story. So, the short of it is that this is a great insightful comment that I can back up with my own experience in making a game from scratch over the last 4+ years.

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Jtarii 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It entirely depends on what your goals are.

If you want to solve the problem quickly then just use the resources you have, if you want to become someone who can solve problems quickly then you need to spend hundreds of hours banging your head against a wall.

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bhelkey 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There wasn't always an external resource to go to for help. Especially for legacy pieces of software, it was easy to become the person with most context on the team.

	▲	noosphr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is reaching "you won't always have a calculator" levels of cope.

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thrance 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The struggle is the point, that's how you learn. If you offload your task to someone/something else after barely 20 minutes of head scratching, you've missed the plot entirely.

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th0ma5 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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