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My pal inspects factories for a living, and I shall take his expert advice to the grave: "Never eat the meat pies". Tell us the best advice you've ever received.

(, Thu 20 May 2010, 12:54)
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Assumption is the mother of all cock-ups
the derivation of this is based from the experience that when someone tells you 'I've checked it and it's not part X that's wrong' but they haven't fixed it, then it's worth checking part X yourself. Engineers find it difficult to say 'I don't know what's wrong' so they usually volounteer something even if it's total BS.
(, Thu 20 May 2010, 17:34, 1 reply)
Agreed.
Always work from first principals and start from the beginning yourself.
I think this is the reason people should listen to "turn it off and back on again" -- start from a clean slate and go from there.
(, Thu 20 May 2010, 17:39, closed)

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