The Wishlist, or how I got my SO to manage money.

March 22, 2021 No comments Article

So, I’ve been struggling for years to get my SO to understand money. Her problem is pretty common: she has a mental disconnect between the money she has, and the money she can spend. So, either she gets money anxious even if she’s doing ok, or she just buys whatever she feels like, without control.At

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Architecture complexity in the dotnet community & Our duty to beginners

March 20, 2021 No comments Article

I have noticed that dotnet community seems default to a lot of complexity for their software.I see a lot questions often by beginners about clean architecture, domain and persistence layers, repositories + UoW patterns, dtos, mapping code between domain, persistence & dto layers, mapping code & keeping change tracking by introducing diff libaries etc More

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Learn to look at the real cost of what you’re buying.

March 19, 2021 No comments Article

[Edit]: Sit tight while I reformat this. Reddit isn’t being nice this morning.Learn to calculate expenses over at least 5 yearsExamples:$500k Mortgage 5 year fixed rate mortgage with 25 years amortization, accelerated by-weekly payments: – 1.79% = $826.77 – 1.60% = 808.8 You’re thinking, $17.97 difference, that’s trivial. But, that’s over 130 payments which is

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Thank you to u/coast-to-coast88 for saving me $18k

March 17, 2021 No comments Article

Just wanted to give a shout out to u/coast-to-coast88 for posting this a while back.Unbeknownst to me I’d already completed step 1 back in December 2020 by blending and extending my then 3.14% rate down to a 2.76% rate with Scotia. Had 3.5yrs remaining on the 3.14% at the time and cost to break was

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My RRSP transfer from Manulife to Questrade was stolen

March 16, 2021 No comments Article

I am in Canada. I transferred $13000 from a RRSP account from Manulife to Questrade in September of 2020. I wanted an electronic transfer but was told a physical cheque in the mail was the only option. The funds never showed up and finding out what happened has been like pulling teeth. Manulife told me

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How to modify a CLI project to include unit tests?

March 13, 2021 No comments Article

I’m new to the dotnet ecosystem (coming from the JVM) and wanted to share this simple CLI project with you for feedback.https://ift.tt/3rR7kQs is a very simple tool that does AES encryption/decryption given a key and a file path.In order to add unit tests to this project, do I actually require creating a solution, and then

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I’m Dr. Morgan Levy, a psychologist specializing in therapy related to anxiety and perfectionism. Ask me anything!

March 13, 2021 No comments Article

I’m a psychologist currently providing online psychotherapy. I’ve been providing therapy for several years now and specialize in treating people with a history of perfectionism and anxiety. While I can’t provide therapy over reddit, I am happy to answer general questions about symptoms and treatment of anxiety, online therapy, and mental health/psychological issues in general.Outside

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We are the Microsoft Excel product team. We build cool stuff like XLOOKUP, Sheet Views, and lambda in Excel. AMA!

March 11, 2021 No comments Article

We are the Microsoft Excel product team. Come ask us anything, from XLOOKUP to Sheet Views to lambda functions. Our whole team will be online answering your questions starting at 10 AM PT on March 10, 2021. Proof: https://twitter.com/msexcel/status/1361792480723795971/////That’s a wrap for today, folks! Our team will continue to work through your unanswered questions offline.Thank

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Interfaces explained

February 28, 2021 No comments Article

Recently I’ve posted a question – what is the most difficult for you to understand when you’re learning C#? https://ift.tt/3aYfyjC of the things that you guys have mentioned was interfaces. Let’s put some light on interfaces and their purpose.What is an interface?You can think about an interface as a contract that the class implementing that

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I expanded my custom CLI to scaffold .NET 5 microservices, gateways, and Web APIs that includes easy JWT Authorization set up. It also includes a lot of doc updates, including how to work with auth in .NET 5

February 24, 2021 No comments Article

I posted a few months ago about the Wrapt framework that I made to scaffold out web api’s using a single CLI command and a yaml or json file that describes the API. I’ve continued working on it over the past few months and wanted to share the latest with the community.I just pushed a

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Q Learning Algorithm a C# implementation from scratch

February 21, 2021 No comments Article

Hey guys,I was told you might be interested in a project like this. So, I am a long time .NET developer that does a little bit of Machine Learning. I take on small tasks like Q-Learning algorithm and take the time to implement it in C#.Hope someone finds this useful, or just a nice weekend

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The Ontario Government is paying 2.5 million dollars to a company behind a “Pump and Dump” Stock

February 20, 2021 No comments Article

https://ift.tt/2OWNPqZ Ontario Government provided a grant of $2,500,000 to FaceDrive for a new COVID-19 contact tracing technology. Stock for FaceDrive has risen over 2961% in the past 52 weeks. The company has a history of co-opting tech trends (Uber, meal-delivery) however has relatively small a userbase in local markets. The company has no history in

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CRA suspends online accounts of over 100,000 Canadians after login credentials found for sale on dark web

February 18, 2021 No comments Article

If you received an unexpected and cryptic email on Feb. 16 from CRA warning that your email had been deleted from the agency’s web platform, do not worryTo be clear, these accounts were not impacted by a cyber attack at the CRAhttps://nationalpost.com/news/politics/cra-suspends-online-accounts-of-over-100000-canadians-after-their-login-credentials-found-for-sale-on-dark-web via /r/PersonalFinanceCanada https://ift.tt/3avO6JV

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[Ontario] The step-by-step guide of how I bought a cottage

February 16, 2021 No comments Article

I’ve learned so much from the various subreddits as a first-time home buyer, including from the r/PersonalFinanceCanada community. I wanted to share my experience of buying a cottage while living in downtown Toronto, in case there are others thinking about doing something similar. I currently rent, and decided in October to buy my first property.

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First Time Homebuyer and TD Online Mortgage Process

February 11, 2021 No comments Article

Hi All,Just thought I would post about my experience applying for a mortgage through TD. I spent so much time here looking for info and found bits and pieces here and there, but I figured I would post my experience so far. This is a long post so please skip if you’re not interested.We applied

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Is social status reproduced from one generation to the next? / Le statut social se reproduit-il d’une génération à l’autre?

February 11, 2021 No comments Article

There is a relationship between the income of parents and the social mobility of their children.Children born into families with a total family income in the bottom 20% of the income distribution have become less likely to exit the bottom quintile themselves.To learn more, check out our new study.[We are Canada’s national statistical agency. We

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