purpleball

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Was making 45k, asked for 90. Got 95. (USD)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did similar. I asked for double my previous salary, figuring that's absurd. They told me that's too low for the position, so they gave me 5 grand more than what I asked for. Clearly I could have gotten substantially more.

But the way I look at it is I got a very high salary that I wasn't expecting, and the company feels like they got a deal. Win - win situation, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A friend in high school helped me install a counter strike server on linux on an old desktop. From there, I experimented with hosting some forums and an upload script to save files remotely. In the days way before the cloud was a thing. That got me interested enough to start figuring things out and get into it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I didn't need to sleep tonight. [shudders]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using them for a few years now. Always good and reliable. My wife and I both have accounts on a custom domain from them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My number one tip is slow down. Don't be afraid to go too slow. Keep training and speed comes with time. Don't make it too hard but keeping too fast of a pace. Running slowly will still provide training and is less likely to cause injury. Your body will know when it's time to speed up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This American Life

Radiolab

Decoding the Unknown

The Running Channel

Every so often Planet Money

I used to listen to Reply All until their whole thing and they shut down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I program in multiple computer languages, and I speak two human languages. I find them completely different skillsets for entirely different purposes.

They are both of interest but for completely different and unrelated reasons.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well, my neuroscience professor told us the story where he served on a jury that related to brain injury. He thought it was odd they didn't have a problem with him.

As an aside, the defendant's expert witness explained some findings of 2 men, Santiago Ramón and Cajal. He then questioned to himself how much of an expert the witness was if he didn't know that Santiago Ramón y Cajal was the name of a single man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That humans use 10% of our brains. We use 100%. Intelligence is correlated with the type of brain matter present.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have the same issue. I use multiple accounts across different servers, and get a different subset of comments across each one. Not sure the solution right now.

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