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Re:How to build a house alone [video] on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:12AM (#16885408)
$2k gets you a general contractor licence in my area (Canada). The fact someone is licensed means almost nothing at all for general contractors. Its more important they have insurance.
Like him or not. This is a very massive win for the Trump administration. Even if he played 0 role, most people think he did.
I work in Vancouver and have lots of coworkers who have recently bought homes. The more I look into it, the more I think the majority of this problem is related to extremely low interest rates. As rates went down, real estate all over Canada shot up a huge amount. Now that rates are rising, it immediately cooled.
Re:100 days with Rust: a series of brick walls on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:27PM (#16664665)
I have found while the C++ error messes can be very long, its surprisingly often in the first line of the error message that you see the problem.
Male school teachers I know in Canada tell me its common sense to never be alone with a female student in a room. One false accusation and your livelihood is DOA.
People have been living trailer parks, with trailers worth far less then 20k for many years. The tiny housing movement did not show us much.
I would spend more time in Ruby first.

Then I would build APIs basic unit tests, and lots of request specs.