It never occurred to me that a pump might fail in a way to give her too much insulin...

I mean the donation is cool. And will hopefully get the residents thinking about how they can also help their city. But I can't help thinking how it's just a small band-aid on a city that can't manage it's infrastructure budget as needed.

This way things have their place and you know where to find something specific.

I am based in Europe and one of the younger interviewers let-slip that they will all be working during the local public holiday. lols. No thanks.

Also, I grew up in a mixed ethnic environment. For the last few decades there has been a focus on trying to make society more inclusive. Such that my school exam papers would have questions like "Susan has 6 apples and gets 6 more. How many does she have" or "Rohit is travelling at 50mph ...." So a variety of names and genders etc to reflect the people who live here.

Well, my Palantir interview information was about "networks of people that need to be tracked"... all Muhammads, Omars etc. These names were my school colleagues and friends, so this didn't sit well with me (just to be clear, I didn't want to work somewhere that seemed to be making software to track entire groups of people).

They really should have sanitised their material and made it about helping Susan and Rohit track financial crime or some such. Instead I got vibes of that tv show Homeland.

I struggle at home though. Because there's not as much pressure to do one task until it's done... so my text file gets forgotten about. Then I start a paper list. Then I forget that... rinse and repeat.

All my current desktops are ~8 year old corporate cast-offs.

Plus, even if you used a Trusted^TM VPN, if the authorities want to know who you are, chances are they can find out.

So the intent part is definitely a thing if they simply turn off their phone.

I'm not drawing any conclusions. But I found it fascinating.

What really surprised me was her blood sugar rockets up when she has video meetings with a certain difficult colleague. While other chilled colleagues have no such effect.

That made me wonder if interacting with difficult people causes more physiological changes than I realised.

Testing any other software tends to pay atleast double minimum wage. But less than a developer salary.

Obviously this is a very general statement but that has been my experience.

I'd heard deadlines couldn't be extended due to console certification timelines. But I think a bigger problem is poor project management and waterfall development methodology... add the fixed deadline and you've got a recipe for a buggy under tested game.

I read a really terrible story years ago, a daughter was sunbathing in the driveway on a lounger, father comes home and parks... on his daughter, who is then paralyzed.

*Edit, found the article: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/31/experie...

I can't even imagine what that guy felt.

In non-games QA, if development takes too long, you typically get an extra sprint to test the changes.

In the games industry QA is considered an entry level job with little respect from other departments.

In non-games testing, QA is a career that pays double and is usually a respected part of the development process.

Basically, I would support the claim that QA could be improved generally across the board in the games industry.

I had a conversation with my wife a few years back, about how a lot of things that are deemed acceptable or situationally appropriate are cultural. And sugared-breakfast-cereal vs real food came up.

My conclusion was, cereal is cheap and sugar is addictive. Better to take the time to eat a good non-processed-food breakfast.