22 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 reword?
Explanation:
Something like "when the solution suddenly comes to me" (or "comes to me out of the blue"). I am not so sure the original way of putting it is so brilliant it needs to be kept, but maybe someone else will do better than my uninspired efforts (inspiration: now that's another possibility).
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Note added at 39 mins (2007-03-29 01:09:40 GMT)
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Taking things a bit further, while, as I said to Wilhelm, "redemptive" seems a bit to religious in its connotations, you could go with "the inspiration which saves my ...". The dots could be filled in by whatever suits the target audience, desired tone, etc. The first thing that occurs to me is "arse", but that may not suit all occasions....
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51 mins confidence:
1 hr confidence: when finally, at long last, it hits you / the long-sought idea (solution) pops into your head
Explanation:
a few more suggestions below:
a little bit of a "Umschreibung" is probably necessary ( as has been suggested) to get the "erlösender" in there. The most direct translation I can think of is "liberating"
looking and thinking all night about how to solve it, then, all of the sudden,
that "eureka moment" happened, the long-sought/desired (liberating) solution/idea just presented itself,
came out of nowhere,
hit me like lightening,
popped into my head,
and I finally realized..... I had kept my sanity.
http://www.eham.net/forums/Licensing/2109
idea hit me
when it finally hit me
or:
when it finally came to me
when the (long-awaited/forever-awaited) idea suddenly popped in my head
when the oh so liberating lightening flash of genius strikes in the middle of the night
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976752-5,00...
http://www.ipfrontline.com/printtemplate.asp?id=471
Try as we might, truly genius-level thinking can't always be done at a moments notice. It seems to me that the "eureka moment," when a long sought solution finally comes, really does happen - I have known it myself. What a rush! It is the illuminating experience of seeing the solution and knowing it is valid that drives us inventors on…that and dreams of making money someday.
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-03-29 02:05:12 GMT)
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also:
when you suddenly have this aha experience,
this sudden insight
see: http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?lang=en&noframes=1&serv...
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2 hrs confidence:
6 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 sudden revelation/inspiration//brainwave
Explanation:
To add a few more...
Second, even if we accept the existence of such an algorithm, the mechanical picture provides us with no understanding of the subjective experience of inspiration, in which a person obtains the solution to a problem by sudden revealation, without any awareness of the intermediate steps.
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware4/default.asp?cmd=...
It's like a sudden revelation. A sudden revelation, an inspiration, a sudden revelation. On the one hand it seemed almost too good to be true. I wasn't sure it would ... I thought the principles said it would work. I wasn't sure whether we could really make one work, getting the right things together and so on, but I thought probably so. There were questions, but as well a great excitement, "Hey, this looks like a way of doing it." Later one might say -- I certainly said to myself -- "Why in the world wasn't this discovered before? There was no one idea that somebody didn't know, it was just a question of putting it all together and seeing what its importance was." And yes, that was the point, because it could have been discovered twenty years earlier. But even after I had the idea, many people thought, "Well, okay, it's kind of an interesting idea, but where is it going? It isn't going to do anything."
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Townes/townes-con4.h...
inspiration - inspiration
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* a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
http://humanityquest.com/themes/inspiration/Definition/synon...
If it can be a bit more colloquial, "brainwave" might work:
Aha, the user has a brain-wave and problem is solved (after some sleepless nights) by using some non-elegant methods (read dirty hacks) like symlinks spanning partitions or using some partition resizing tools like parted.
http://linuxgazette.net/issue84/vinayak.html
| heikeb
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Native speaker of:  German
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