Have you ever started asking someone to help you solve a problem, and halfway through, you figure it out yourself? It feels great. It feels even better when you learn to do it on purpose—and when you ...

In one of the nerdiest internet jokes ever, Stack Overflow, a website for programmers, introduced a rubber duck for an April Fools’ Day joke. The duck’s role was to help visitors solve computer ...

A yellow rubber duck as a problem solver — a tried and tested trick from the IT scene: In so-called rubber duck debugging, you explain your own problem to a plastic bird step by step and often ...