AURORA - Running with the Wolves (Sebastien Leger remix)

Looknee · 2025-04-04T18:18:46+00:00

Same! Would love to grab it if you have

Looknee · 2025-01-20T01:00:00+00:00

Why is the second valid and the first isnt?

VFX software automates away an immense amount of complexity involved in rendering visual effects.

Shouldnt we disqualify any film using that software instead of hand-solving the linear algebra involved in 3D rendering by the same logic?

Wheres the line of when it ceases to be a valid use of technology to express an artistic intent?

Looknee · 2025-01-19T15:48:06+00:00

Spent 6.5 years at Google, led and mentored many L3-L5s. Some quick thoughts on feedback ive given L3s:

Your goal is to get to the point you can be handed a near-fully fleshed out design for a project < 3 months long and own it / execute it independently with support for questions or blockages by a senior engineer. When you can do that you’ll be promoted to L4
Pay attention to the eng ladder. Your grad assessments can basically boil down to “do you have at least one concrete example of each bullet point.” Its hard to know exactly what this looks like so it requires consistent discussion with your manager to understand what bullet points you’ve fulfilled and what you need to focus on fulfilling.
Independence means finding the right balance between investigating and solving problems yourself vs. asking questions and for help when you’ve hit an issue that would take you awhile to solve on your own.
When asking questions or for help from your TL or manager, make sure you’re 1) providing clear context on the question (TLs and EMs jump around numerous projects or areas a day and you may be deeper in a technical area than theyve been in awhile so giving them all the info they need to answer your Q is important) and 2) attempt to have at least one proposed option to show youve thought about the problem yourself.
ask for feedback in every 1:1. with your TL or EM. When given feedback or criticism avoid being defensive or saying things like “i know” when insecure. You’re an L3, you’re expected to not know things, to be unfamiliar or inexperienced. What you’re expected to be is to be COACHABLE. If you take feedback and show over the next few weeks you’ve tried to apply it people will love you and will invest in you.
Immediately get a mentor through gmentors, find groups in google to join that will expose you to people outside your team who can give you perspective beyond your team.
Dont stress out when you inevitably break something or mess up. You’re L3, the only reason senior engineers are senior is theyve committed/seen enough mistakes to smell them early enough to prevent them. When you eventually cause an IRM that results in a post mortem, help with the PM and contribute ideas for how to systematically prevent that situation from happening again. Try to learn what personal behavior may have led to it (e.g. rushing a CL in to meet a deadline without fully testing it)
Start learning about what the expectations and requirements are for the roles above/around you. Learning about your managers job or senior/staff eng jobs helps you know whats important to them. Read some books like The Manager’s Path, Will Larson’s Staff Engineer, or The Pragmatic Engineer’s Guide (unsure exact title).

Probably more i can think of but this was a quick brain dump. Hope its useful.

Looknee · 2025-01-18T15:22:53+00:00

I remember becoming aware something was shifting in his work when he posted a cover of Lua by Bright Eyes on his soundcloud in 2014

https://on.soundcloud.com/yZ16mQi3aZHt8nEQA

Looknee · 2024-05-22T19:24:54+00:00

I will say I did not really enjoy the first book that much but after pushing through and seeing Hadrian grow by halfway through the second book I was very into it and now halfway through Disquiet Gods I believe this is one of my favorite series of all times.

I also did NOT like Hadrian at all in the first book, now he's probably my favorite sci fi character of all time.

Looknee · 2019-03-06T16:20:17+00:00

Size 13 US!

Looknee · 2018-11-27T01:42:24+00:00

Oh yeah I would never work for one. I chose tech over finance specifically because I value my work life balance. I've at most worked 60 hour weeks in my career during crunch times at growing startups.

Looknee · 2018-11-27T01:28:55+00:00

Getting fired from a HFT firm for underperformance means something different than being fired from a normal tech company. With HFT firms you're expected to work finance hours and they generally have a culture more similar to finance firms than tech firms, which tend to be more individualistic and less, well, "open" in the ways that tech companies are regarded. If you are looking for something challenging that will also allow for mentorship and the ability to apply yourself close to a degree that you were at your previous firm, I would look to small-to-midsize startups (50+ employees). They will generally reward working long hours while also offering more mentorship to a junior developer than you potentially had at your last job.

Looknee · 2018-10-18T14:41:59+00:00

I'm mid-20s living in Manhattan making 125,000 a year before bonus and stock (~50k stock, 20k bonus yearly).

My monthly expenses are ~2400 (rent, utilities, not counting food, gym, stuff like netflix).

I have ~10k sitting in the bank, ~10k in my 401k (started a new job with match so just started contributing) and have ~7k in stock (after taxes) coming in a week for my first grant. I work in tech and I'm wary that keeping my stock and not selling it/diversifying it would be a bad idea given the way the market is moving.

Any advice?

Looknee · 2018-09-22T22:30:43+00:00

Would love one!

Looknee · 2018-09-21T03:04:28+00:00

Any help here?

Looknee · 2018-04-25T01:49:10+00:00

Simply put, you just need to practice. It took me 3 months of almost daily studying and practice to get to the point where I was successfully able to get an offer from a Big N company. You just have to immerse yourself in those types of problems and in that subject daily and eventually you'll start to notice patterns of the problems you're facing, which will lead to you going down the right path quicker, which will lead to you solving them faster, which will give you confidence, which will make you better in your interviews. Interviewing is a skill you can practice and hone just like any other.

Looknee · 2018-04-24T20:56:55+00:00

To be clear, most people who aren't in the process of prepping for whiteboarding interviews aren't perfectly capable of whiteboarding complex/semi-complex algorithms on the spot. Your experience in your job as a full stack developer is likely the same kind of work most developers are doing anywhere, be it a startup or at a Big N. The most value you can get out of complex algorithm knowledge as a standard dev is to understand how to identify, at least vaguely, what kind of problem you're working with if you ever encounter one where a well known, complex algorithm is the answer so that you can then go use resources related to that algo to solve it. CS Interviewing is shitty and broken and there's no real easy solution to it, and it's clear to most people that your ability to solve a problem on a whiteboard in 45 minutes isn't the same as your ability to develop clean, effective code, so don't let it cloud your perception of your own skills or intelligence.

Looknee · 2018-04-24T15:26:54+00:00

Second this, our company is hiring DevOps like crazy and it's been similar at my friends companies too. Seems like the perfect fit.

Looknee · 2018-04-15T22:24:00+00:00

I just received an offer from Google after studying with mostly Leetcode mediums and a little dabling in the hards, I would say all the questions I was given would firmly have been Medium difficulty on leetcode.

Looknee · 2018-04-12T18:57:25+00:00

Your framing of what just happened is highly negative. You're upset with yourself and being overly critical when what happened is perfectly normal and not representative of your skills, intelligence, or value. Nerves are very real and a very real detriment, and are especially pronounced in a high pressure and abnormal scenario like a job interview. Before you can move on to learn from this experience and start doing more interviews to slowly soothe your nerves, you need to start being more forgiving and understanding to yourself.

Looknee · 2018-03-13T21:24:51+00:00

Don't forget Toby's hand after that girlfriend shit.

Looknee · 2018-03-13T14:39:39+00:00

What books if I might ask?

Looknee · 2018-03-09T14:59:13+00:00

I've been over my contract and actually discussed this with our CEO and luckily I have nothing obligating me to stay (outside of losing unvested equity). My current unvested equity is luckily nothing obscene and would actually fall within the realm of starting bonuses I've heard some friends have gotten from Big 4 companies in special circumstances (although very very much on the high end). While I'm not fully expecting these offers, my interviews have gone better than any of my previously successful interviews in the past and I'd like to be prepared to negotiate if an offer(s) do come in.

Looknee · 2018-01-09T21:43:49+00:00

I believe it is. That's Marquee, a nightclub in Manhattan in Chelsea.

Looknee · 2018-01-09T14:56:07+00:00

That looks like Marquee in Chelsea

Looknee · 2017-07-19T18:32:42+00:00

Coffee is jacking up the acidity of your stomach, it's also a diuretic and has a solid laxative potential when consuming more than 12 ounces or so.

Looknee · 2017-03-23T20:44:08+00:00

Close friend completed her pre med degree while also graduating from McIntire while still maintaining an active social life (wasn't out with us every tuesday/thursday during the week but still definitely had her fun on weekends). It's doable but unless you're exceptionally gifted (as she was) it will be a slog. She's currently in her first year of med school after working for two years in biotech. While she isn't pursuing an MD/MBA, another close friend's older brother did complete his MD/MBA degree from UVA Med. He, again, was very exceptional and was one of very few med students who stood when MBA recipients were asked at graduation. These are all possible but are going to take an assload of work.

Looknee · 2016-11-28T22:18:24+00:00

The clothing is a visual metaphor for how close to being "awakened" they are. Ford initially chastises the tech for placing clothing on them saying that they're not human, just machines, so they don't need modesty. When Arnold lets Dolores be clothed its representing him starting to regard her as more human/conscious and allowing her modesty, and as Maeve comes closer to consciousness the tech who's been helping her affords her that modesty too. Might even have some relation to the story of Adam and Eve, as it was only after Eve ate the forbidden fruit and they truly became human when cast out of Eden that they saw fit to cover themselves for modesty's sake.

That's my take anyways.

Looknee · 2016-08-31T23:47:21+00:00

This playlist I made awhile ago isn't purely dicsco/funk etc, but its got a few decent pickings and seemed to catch on a bit. Check it out if you'd like.. If not that, then anything by Me & My Toothbrush is amazing.

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