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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.
Re:North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war
on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:24AM (#16859172)
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.
Re:Vancouver signs first agreement in Canada with Airbnb for short-ter...
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @07:43PM (#16816819)
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.
Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:34PM (#16654636)
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.
Re:The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:53PM (#16653828)
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.
Re:Ask HN: If you could do it over how would you learn Rails from scratch
on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:13AM (#16435290)
I would spend more time in Ruby first.
Then I would build APIs basic unit tests, and lots of request specs.