The boring, foolproof, non-financial financial advice everyone overlooks

February 5, 2021 No comments Article

Apologies for the clickbait title but rest assured, there’s no scam here. I’ve come up with a list of time-tested, foolproof ways to save money that are infinitely more reliable than whatever investment scheme you’re cooking up. And speaking of cooking:Learn to cookDoordash, ubereats, skip-the-dishes, delete them from your fucking phone right now. Learn to

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An explanation of 13 years of Toronto real estate and how we got to this point (and a bit of what’s maybe around the corner in the short-to-medium term)

February 3, 2021 No comments Article

I’ll start off by saying I’m not a real estate agent, nor in housing finance. But I keep a close watch out of personal interest and because my profession requires me to know a bit of what’s happening (plus I find it fascinating). I’ve been following it closely for the last 15 yrs.Another thing I’ll

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Understanding the Imposter Syndrome

January 27, 2021 No comments Article

Hello everybody!I’ve just published an article about the imposter syndrome and I thought it could be useful for some of you. I know it’s not directly related to development, but I think it’s really important to speak about it, so here I am.Of course, if the moderators judge that this post shouldn’t be here, I

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Lesson learned: Don’t FOMO into the market.

January 25, 2021 No comments Article

Well.. today is the day I finally decided to join the expert investors over at r/Wallstreetbets and I put $15k USD into GameStop.Within one hour, I was down nearly half of what I put in. It completely wiped out my past year of returns.And you know what? I’m happy that I only lost 7k (so

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How to use Cloud without losing sleep

January 14, 2021 No comments Article

Hi webdev,About a month ago, I published a post about our incident while experimenting with GCP and Firebase. There were lot of great comments, and after the post few folks reached out to me on recommendations for their projects.In the new year I took some time to write best practices I follow before setting up

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Why I left Questrade as a Platinum client, and why you should too.

January 12, 2021 No comments Article

tl;dr: Their customer service is now terrible. We’re talking me having to initiate contact over a dozen times to process a simple transfer, them nearly costing me 5 figures of tax liability, and them transferring 6 figures of stock to the wrong account and then ignoring me forever.I’ve been a Questrade client since 2009. I’ve

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I created a video series to teach the most common patterns and techniques to pass coding interviews

January 9, 2021 No comments Article

Playlist: Coding Interview Patterns and Techniques – YouTubeFirst Video: https://youtu.be/0l2nePjDFuAJavaScript solutions: GitHub RepoFor anyone preparing for coding interviews, I started this series to breakdown the most common types of problems in coding interviews. In each video, I start by showing examples on a whiteboard to explain the algorithm, before moving on to the implementation. via

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Buying a Condo without a Realtor 101 – Owners Own Use

December 27, 2020 No comments Article

In light of the recent thread about buying without a buying agent, I thought I’d write up a quick 101 to help people that choose this path. This is just meant as a starting guide and not a comprehensive guide.Step 1: Make a PlanDetermine what you want in a condo. This may include things like

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Tuple of doubles supress decimals.

December 24, 2020 No comments Article

I’m trying to create a tuple of doubles, for example:(double Alfa, double Zg) tupleTests = (Alfa: 7, Zg: 1/ 7); My problem is that the the second items is always zero (0). Instead the number should be 0.14285714285. via /r/learncsharp https://ift.tt/3pd0pzc

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Pet projects hosting

March 13, 2019 No comments Article

I plan on starting some new projects(mostly small stuff to just try out new features, new libraries/frameworks, maybe one project that could potentially be sold) and I’m wondering about hosting. I’d like to have something cheap(free if possible) to easily host some demos. Since on day to day basis I’m using Azure AppServices and SqlServer

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