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		ummwhat on Sept 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Church of Interruption I find when talking with computer people, just saying "if I could move a few layers back up the stack" let's you backtrack to problem 1 if you want. This only works if you have people who understand the idea of the conversation as a stack.

steeveblack on Sept 23, 2019 | [–]

I've had a group of colleagues where we would at a point say "ok, pop, pop, pop". That meant this same thing.

closeparen on Sept 23, 2019 | [–]

I find the response is always, "we have limited time and we need to move on."

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