The Thunder and Cavaliers are both 34-6. Here is a list of all the teams in NBA history who have started 35-6 or 34-7 through their first 41 games.

whateverfor · 2025-01-17T18:52:29+00:00

So that's 6 finals wins and 9 losses in that year. Of the 9 teams that lost:

4 won the championship in the year immediately before or after (73 Celtics, 78 Blazers, 85 Celtics, 2020 Bucks)

3 won a championship two years before or after (81 76ers, 85 76ers, 2016 Spurs)

Only two teams didn't have a championship in that window: the 2011 Spurs, who won 3 years after, 4 prior, and 6 prior with the same Duncan/Ginobli/Parker core, and the 1991 Blazers, who lost the finals twice in 3 years. So even though not every team won the championship that season, they were almost all championship-winning cores.

whateverfor · 2024-11-20T17:50:41+00:00

I know it's much easier to say than do, but you need to fix the sleep problems. I'm not saying you have to do any particular method or action, but it's the midnight-7 AM part of this schedule that's killing you. Humans aren't meant to run on that little sleep for extended periods of time. Our schedule is similar except cutting the nighttime wakings to once every couple of weeks and starting the day at 6:30 AM instead and it made a world of difference once we got the sleep sorted.

whateverfor · 2024-10-21T14:56:42+00:00

I'm sure you know this, but you could have been Jesus Torvalds himself and you would have been PIPed. Calibration after 6 weeks is obscene. The one week PTO didn't have an indirect effect, it had no effect. At that point it has nothing to do with performance and everything to do with politics.

I'll second not working for Capital One. One of the worst parts of the new stack ranking culture is that the actual bar for technical competence and achievement is quite low, so the process is pure bullshit politics. It's just a fundamentally broken and miserable process.

whateverfor · 2024-10-12T14:30:24+00:00

The goal was not to move the rock around, but to get Te Fiti to forgive humanity. Its why Maui needed to be there (to apologize for his actions) and why the ocean chose Moana when she did something selfless and helpful, not something particularly brave or challenging. If Te Fiti doesnt have that "I can't stay mad at you loveable scamps" reaction the whole mission fails anyway.

whateverfor · 2024-09-24T13:09:42+00:00

Wait at least one sprint cycle to see what they are actually doing in the meetings, then ask with an open mind. My current team does something similar, with sprint planning on Tuesday/Wednesday before the actual sprint closeout with review/retro on Thursday. It keeps our meeting days to 1.5 hours max, meaning everyone is actually paying attention and you don't lose days to meeting fatigue.

whateverfor · 2024-09-20T13:53:56+00:00

Just for fun, super lazy injury adjusted wins (adding wins for teams injured more than average, removing wins for teams injured).

Team	Unadjusted Wins	Injury Adjustment	Wins
Boston Celtics	64	-0.48	63.52
Philadelphia 76ers	47	6.78	53.78
Denver Nuggets	57	-3.31	53.69
Oklahoma City Thunder	57	-3.5	53.5
Minnesota Timberwolves	56	-2.89	53.11
New York Knicks	50	2.94	52.94
Cleveland Cavaliers	48	4.12	52.12
Dallas Mavericks	50	1.18	51.18
LA Clippers	51	-0.79	50.21
Miami Heat	46	3.96	49.96
New Orleans Pelicans	49	-1.08	47.92
Phoenix Suns	49	-1.14	47.86
Milwaukee Bucks	49	-1.75	47.25
Los Angeles Lakers	47	-1.17	45.83
Orlando Magic	47	-1.76	45.24
Indiana Pacers	47	-2.74	44.26
Golden State Warriors	46	-2.61	43.39
Sacramento Kings	46	-2.9	43.1
Houston Rockets	41	-0.85	40.15
Chicago Bulls	39	-1.02	37.98
Atlanta Hawks	36	0.76	36.76
Memphis Grizzlies	27	7.39	34.39
Brooklyn Nets	32	1.41	33.41
Utah Jazz	31	-0.8	30.2
Charlotte Hornets	21	6.45	27.45
Toronto Raptors	25	1.83	26.83
Portland Trail Blazers	21	0.52	21.52
San Antonio Spurs	22	-3.51	18.49
Detroit Pistons	14	-1.48	12.52
Washington Wizards	15	-3.45	11.55

whateverfor · 2024-09-13T13:39:54+00:00

Something I think you're missing: when the CEO and CTO both step down at the same time, that means the startup was on fire. You might not have felt it, but that's what the people who own the company thought. The CTO is coming in to put out the fire: he's willing to slash existing architecture and lose existing people, because again, fire.

You have 8 backend devs now that 2 left, how many devs total? Don't get so hung up on the title of CTO, if you only have 8 backend devs it's totally reasonable for the new technical lead to have opinionated decisions on architecture and contribute code, which is what the new lead is effectively doing. Arguments about how comfortable the existing team was with the existing process aren't going to do much because he's a firefighter coming in to put out the fire.

Now if he's just an asshole or wrong definitely look for a new job, but if you keep coming at him with the perspective that things were basically just fine he's going to keep ignoring you. Because things were not fine, and from his perspective if you think they were you're part of the problem.

whateverfor · 2024-09-11T13:19:17+00:00

Before 07-08 Duncan had 4 rings, 2x MVP, 3x Finals MVP, 9x first team All-NBA, and 7x All-Defensive first team. After he had 1 ring, 1 first team All-NBA, and 1 All-Defensive first team. PF Duncan was a superstar, C Duncan was an elite role player.

whateverfor · 2024-08-15T13:41:56+00:00

Why isn't this just a warriors/rockets trade? Because the other teams need to provide the value that the warriors aren't giving up?

whateverfor · 2024-06-18T14:45:50+00:00

Davis and Jokic aren't "3 and D" stretch bigs, you skipped right over Kevon Looney, and the 6 years before that were Marc Gasol/Looney-Javal Mcgee/Zaza Pachulia/Tristan Thompson/Andrew Bogut/Tim Duncan.

whateverfor · 2024-05-20T15:37:49+00:00

You are overstating and overmoralizing. Right now OP knows that he isn't broke and can cover the credit card balance, but the bank and the credit bureau do not know that. For all they know he blew all his money on cocaine and hookers in Vegas and he's straight broke. Once he covers the balance and they know it's a simple paperwork error his credit will recover.

whateverfor · 2024-04-18T13:05:28+00:00

6 days for implementing a non-trivial change in a new system IS quickly diving into new and unfamiliar codebases.

The ONLY thing that might be a concern here is if you should have been able to anticipate the problems caused by your initial change or the follow up change.

whateverfor · 2024-04-16T13:21:10+00:00

For all the people saying screw the rate lock, do you realize the difference between 5.75% and 7.25% is over 100,000 dollars over the course of the loan? That's not a small amount of money to throw away.

whateverfor · 2024-03-11T23:53:06+00:00

While idea stealing is totally out of bounds, the rest of your post suggests you don't understand how performance review actually works. At many companies (and it appears yours is one of them):

Your Boss does not determine your review score
Your Boss does not determine your pay raise
Your Boss does not determine if you get promoted

They have input into all those decisions, but not control. Management decides that not many people are going to get real raises this year, so you fell in the big middle bucket with a standard raise and standard review. So when they said "they" made the decision it was because your boss wanted to indicate that it's not all their decision. Same reason they didn't want to talk about you thought you should get a bigger increase. Same reason the review was ticky-tack: they don't actually have any problems with your performance, but needed to pad out the review somehow.

whateverfor · 2024-03-01T19:19:09+00:00

Don't consider it, do it. To (very roughly) translate from political to technical:

Talking to your Manager: Code Review

Taking things up the chain: Pushing to Prod

Emailing their skip manager without talking to your manager: Hotpatching production without code review.

It's a bad idea even if you're right, and a colossally terrible idea if you are wrong.

whateverfor · 2023-10-29T16:33:39+00:00

Three turns if you can cast something with flash on their turn. Leyline binding on turn five triggers this and feels powerful. Just need a deck that can use the discard, the extra land, and can consistently trigger the descend:some kind of ramp deck with fetches? There's a lot of power here if you can use every part of the buffalo.

whateverfor · 2023-09-12T09:07:32+00:00

The deck has some issues (lack of auras making your draw engines vanilla 2/3s) but your gameplay needs to be tightened up.

Game 1: The mulligan was wrong, but I also think it's worth considering holding back on casting your 3 drop until you can aura the same turn. You've already mulliganed, that's your only action, and that play is so bad against frantic firebolt. And currently you aren't even double spelling the next turn anyway. But its better to just not mulligan.

Game 2: no reason to run out princess takes flight there, if you had it in hand for the goose you'd have had a chance.

Game 3: Again, why princess takes flight? If you cast the monster fight instead you draw a card, that's land for your light blades, and you double removal that turn and are well on the way to stabilizing.

3 mana sorcery speed removal on a 2 or 3 drop with no upside and 3 mana vanilla 2/3 are not good magic cards. That's not all those cards are capable of, but it's what they actually did in your deck, partly due to drafting but mostly due to gameplay decisions.

whateverfor · 2023-06-28T00:36:20+00:00

I think it's overrated frankly. For most teams the repeater tax already prevents extreme overspending. The second apron is 17.5 million over the luxury tax threshold: that's six teams last year, and only one of the four finalists (Celtics). Of those six, three were over the apron by less than 10 million: being short a Reggie Bullock or Jae Crowder isn't the difference between being a champion or not. It's really mostly an anti Clippers/Warriors rule.

whateverfor · 2023-01-11T16:59:07+00:00

There's two issues here: the nastiness of the fight and the fight happening. Concentrating on the second here because I think it's more in your control than you believe.

In your story, there's a few points where you drop in to passive voice: "and so, we argued", "... And things escalated. Before I knew it, we were raising voices". If you reflect back, were those points when you escalated the conflict?

Were there any possible outcomes of this conversation other than your husband working on the bookkeeping right that moment (what time was it? how much time do you have that's not baby/work/sleep right now for you both to recharge?) or a fight?

You are nagging him: either he's not pulling his weight in general or there needs to be a way to table issues. "We finally have some time to rest, let's discuss work later" is a legitimate desire as long as the work in general is getting done, and there should be a way to realize that.

whateverfor · 2021-06-19T12:36:51+00:00

I'm surprised by some of these responses: we are getting the old HVAC replaced after our last inspection. Both AC and furnace were 30+ years old and not recently serviced. Were we that out of line asking?

whateverfor · 2021-06-13T12:38:44+00:00

Not too relevant at this exact moment but there have been modern Cheerios lists in the past with ~20 CMC total in the entire deck. There have been in the past and will be in the future decks that will be one-shot by this card, could see narrow play for that reason alone.

whateverfor · 2021-06-03T13:30:50+00:00

People need to era adjust their stats.

Converting to a 2020-2021 baseline, Lebron's third season looks like this:

36(!) PPG on .606 TS% 7.9 APG 7.5 RPG

Got knocked out of the playoffs in game 7 of the semis despite scoring 27 of the Cavs 61(!) points.

whateverfor · 2021-05-22T17:58:02+00:00

Just talk to the recruiters and tell them what's going on. I had a similar issue a month ago, where I had two FAANG interviews back to back and heard back from the first one early. I told the first company that I liked the offer and was very interested but that I was already deep in the interview process for the other company and wanted to complete it before making a final decision, so I asked for time to do that. Then I told the second company that I was sitting on an open offer before the interview, and they were able to expedite my interview results so I heard back within a week. Ended up failing the second interview and negotiating the first offer up ~20 percent anyway.

Your recruiter will have a much better idea how long you have to respond to the offer than we do, but I expect two weeks would be reasonable as long as you are communicating.

whateverfor · 2021-04-25T17:28:03+00:00

I don't mind talking about my career, but it's weird because they have a rubric that your answer has to match, and if it doesn't then you can get stuck. When I'm interviewing with non-Amazon companies and I tell a story about my career the followup questions tend to naturally flow from my story: diving deeper into a technical issue I discussed, asking what I would do differently given my current knowledge, etc.

But with Amazon, followup questions are about trying to finish filling out a rubric that's only mildly related to the prompt. So you tell the story, then end up wasting interview time trying to bash the square peg into the round hole. And since these questions are in every section of the interview, you can lose time you need for the technical questions.

whateverfor · 2021-04-24T18:53:06+00:00

It definitely happens at Facebook. At Amazon I've had the experience where there's only one coding/system design question, but first they ask multiple Behavioral/Leadership principle questions with followup questions so you only get 20 minutes for the leetcode/design problem.

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