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mottsc

My brain is old!

Apr 19, 2006 12:34

(I'm posting more today because I have nothing to do except wait for QA to find bugs for me to fix.)

Last night I bought Brain Age for the Nintendo DS. It was made based on the research of Japanese neuroscientist. He found certain types of exercises stimulated blood flow to various areas of the brain and Nintendo took those activities and put them ( Read more... )

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a_n_s_i April 19 2006, 15:28:00 UTC

Hey, why don't you come over and fix some of our bugs? We've got a ton! :)

mottsc April 19 2006, 15:34:34 UTC

Maybe next week when we've signed everything off just have to wait.

crisper April 19 2006, 22:59:52 UTC

>I'm posting more today because I have nothing to do except wait for QA to find bugs for me to fix.

Short shameful confession: Sometimes, I've written a bug against new code before I've even used it, because I'm confident that there's going to be a race condition or a data corruption problem or an uninitialized variable caused by coming into the feature from a non-standard path, etc. So I write it just vaguely enough that it's not pinned down to some exact set of steps, but plausible enough to send them looking in a general area.

About half the time, they turn something up and fix it and send it back to me to verify.

mottsc April 20 2006, 06:36:46 UTC

That's kind of funny. I've handed a new build off to QA and told them where I thought there might be bugs and maybe how to get to them if they are there.

jynxjynx April 20 2006, 00:02:52 UTC

That game sounds awesome! I want to check it out. Did you pick it up locally or did you have to order it?

mottsc April 20 2006, 06:37:43 UTC

I got it at Toys R Us, but it should be anywhere DS games are sold. Bonus, it's a bargain title, $20.

It has Sudoku built into it too.

mottsc April 20 2006, 08:40:02 UTC

This morning I did the training and then the tests and I was down to a 26.