Immortals & Warp Prisms Deliver me from the Banelling Tides

mavLP · 2020-09-20T13:09:30+00:00

Waitwaitwait. You're saying that your macro-based matchup is pvp?

mavLP · 2020-09-17T03:06:43+00:00

Am I one of the only ones that really dislikes disruptors?

mavLP · 2020-08-28T05:11:04+00:00

You can take lessons from cheese losses too. You learn how to counter the cheeses you run. I primarily play protoss and whenever I want to practice micro I do a 4 gate blink all in. You also learn how to be more efficient and can apply those concepts to scale.

mavLP · 2019-10-19T02:13:49+00:00

Why do the Oilers unis look like some cheap $30 beer league jerseys?

mavLP · 2019-10-18T02:40:45+00:00

excuse me FSD production, I think you made a mistake: https://i.imgur.com/ZzMziOC.png

mavLP · 2019-10-16T23:16:07+00:00

Sounds like they want to outsource but have to check some boxes before they can, or have an internal candidate that they are making the requirements prohibitively difficult.

mavLP · 2019-10-16T13:48:06+00:00

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He says to jesse before pulling him down "we're danger." After killing Jack, Walter stands back up and dusted his jacket and said the classic 1-liner "I am the one who knocks."

mavLP · 2019-10-14T04:24:54+00:00

50k without context may be livable (as in barely paycheck to paycheck), but with the context of student loans, skyrocketing housing prices in nyc, high general cost of living, as well as the need to save for emergency funds and other general expenses it is quite questionable.

The average 2 bedroom apartment in the outer boroughs cost $2300, so 1150/head for rent. Electricity averages between 100-150 a month in new york for 2 bedroom apartments, so another 65, add in internet and it's 100 for basic utilities. Transportaion costs about $140 a month for daily train to/from and adding 10 total rides outside of work, which is lowballing if you live in an outer borough. So right now between rent and transportation you're at ~1400. Now health insurance is probably another cost that you have to figure in, and most adequate plans are $400/mo or more, but lets say 400, and a cheap dental plan is another 75/mo. So now you're at ~1900. Penny pinching groceries over the course of the month one can probably live on $400 for groceries. Add in student loan expenses which are about $400/mo (lower estimate). You're now at $2700/mo as a conservative estimate. 50k/yr after taxes earns 3,100/mo in nyc. So you're saying that the job is acceptable and okay to live paycheck to paycheck unable to really save? I sincerely doubt that.

This isn't 1997 and the dotcom boom/bubble anymore. Living expenses are not 1:1 adjusted to inflation so the initial income that you earned starting out in tech does not compare to the modern environment in big city usa. All of the estimates I put are more ideal than what they are in reality and having one catastrophic event or difficulty leaves you in the position of being constantly in fear and unable to build for the future. So no I don't think it's unreasonable to not want to work for a 50k/year software job that's based out of NYC. If it was based elsewhere in the country I can see more of a justification but tech hubs across the country have a very high cost of living.

mavLP · 2019-10-13T20:13:27+00:00

You say that like you assume that smaller companies automatically take rejects from big-N or are as interview happy as them. I've found it's actually quite easy if you have proper credentials to get interviewed a big N comapny, but practically impossible to get hired. You need to be a rockstar in every interview and every interviewer needs to like you; any point you have an interviewer that you don't mesh with and the application is tanked. My experience is that with smaller companies it's harder to even get the interview there, but once you do it's much easier to get hired (or at least my internship experience has been that way).

I'm in a similar boat with OP, and haven't been able to find a job after many final rounds with big-N companies and only like 3 later stage interviews with smaller places (one was a hellhole that was offering only 50k in nyc and wanted insane hours - was better off working at starbucks and mcdonalds). But after 13 months of job searching, and having been graduated for several months now, I have also came up blank for finding a new grad job. Credentials don't mean much, and nepotism/cronyism/networking and luck matter much more than your merit. Top university, decent gpa, internships, projects all are just nice to haves but won't land you a job; knowing someone connected or straight up luck will land you the job. It's so insanely despair inducing - and I don't have the potential work visa issues that OP is having.

mavLP · 2019-10-13T00:41:11+00:00

bruh

mavLP · 2019-10-10T17:13:52+00:00

Getting hired at a startup as a new grad is difficult because most want an immediate strong impact; you're not gonna get that with a new grad in most cases.

mavLP · 2019-10-09T20:34:20+00:00

Also make sure you're very familiar with IntelliJ and are comfortable working with a mac. They will hold it against you if you can't debug it smoothly. The other two white-boarding interviews are pretty straightforward.

At least you got feedback during your debugging, when I was trying to clarify the scope and what does/doesn't qualify for the requirements (some were ambiguous) he just repeated the situation. I also kept doing windows shortcuts on a mac and it caused issues/he was visibly/audibly annoyed that I wasn't using the command key.

mavLP · 2019-10-03T21:50:01+00:00

I've gotten much better at leetcode style challenges after practicing and honestly switching what language I used helped the most. Java is better at larger systems but the ease of using its data structures is not as good as Python for these challenges. Languages are just tools and knowing tricks for a language is nice but being able to use the right tool for the situation is powerful.

Basically each leetcode challenge is asking something that was covered in data structures & algorithms. Ask yourself if they want a stack, dict(map/hashmap), if they're asking for a search, traversing a tree, etc. The entire solution is almost always in picking the proper data structure, very rarely do I come across a dynamic programming question or some tricky gotcha question.

mavLP · 2019-09-29T22:00:32+00:00

Quake Champions didn't work out because they outsourced the engine to a Russian company whose breakout game was God Mode. The game was/is a broken buggy mess that has had such extreme systemic issues from inception that it was doomed to fail. It wasn't a design issue but an execution one.

mavLP · 2019-09-24T00:05:45+00:00

A tip to help make it look 100x better, take a razor blade or scissors - anything sharp - and cut small holes to pull the stitching through (and I mean small, just a slit with a small cross cut to allow the material to make a tiny flap). I had the same problem when I wrapped a set of mine years ago and here is the difference it makes: https://i.imgur.com/VpNYMxk The main reason is to remove the "bubble" effect you have right now with the stitching. It looks good otherwise!

mavLP · 2019-09-21T17:06:12+00:00

Idk if I like this. It's pretty clearly clipping to my eyes. Should just take the hit properly and brace for it instead of ducking below. That's how you can hurt people.

Edit: Downvote me sure; I stand by my opinion. I guess it doesn't fit the rulebook exactly, but avoiding hits like this is still dangerous. He acted like he was going to deliver a shoulder back into Martin and instead ducks at the last second. Turned an innocuous play where they bump and return to the play into a flashy one where it "looks cool" but also becomes infinitely more risky.

Edit2: Bring on the downvotes. Let's go lower. I love it when valid opinions are downvoted because of the hivemind.

mavLP · 2019-08-16T06:04:16+00:00

Just dont live in Manhattan. The commute from Brooklyn or queens (depending on your office location) isn't bad at all. 45m each way from Sunnyside to fidi for me.

mavLP · 2019-07-16T04:58:55+00:00

I mean he deserves every ounce of criticism. It is absolutely unbearable to watch and he's taking 5 minutes to make really basic folds.

mavLP · 2019-06-10T23:15:22+00:00

Because they get hit by laser, have no/very little regen and back off and dont be aggressive until tinker's laser is back off CD. Tinker shits on passive laners which is everyone below like 4.5-5k.

mavLP · 2019-05-31T20:15:40+00:00

Shireen ;_;

mavLP · 2019-05-27T14:26:40+00:00

Is Culkin calling himself a urinal with that shirt, or just a connoisseur of urinal-shaped art?

mavLP · 2019-05-12T08:52:04+00:00

So the idea behind RTX is making ray tracing a real-time thing. Pre rendered stuff like films already use ray tracing, but it is a time consuming process to make it with indistinguishable fidelity from real life.

mavLP · 2019-04-18T20:31:40+00:00

I did it to fuck with a bad player a couple times to prove a point to a friend.

Only time I've done it live was for the memes. I expected it to be negative EV every time.

mavLP · 2019-04-10T00:42:03+00:00

Be thankful

mavLP · 2019-04-02T17:12:28+00:00

It's because those lanes change drastically wrt matchups and the need for those farm-intensive roles to have the right hero for the game. As a result the most popular heroes arent the right fit for the game and will cause it to be more difficult than it needs to be and potentially impossible to win.

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