Problem Solving and other missing lessons
Too many trades people estimate their jobs by looking at the house of the prospect, what type of cars they drive etc. Recently I received an estimate of $8,000 to install a charger outlet (but not the charger). My estimate…
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For about 5 years, I have been developing android apps in the Microsoft product “Xamarin”. I initially chose Xamarin because it is able to share code between Android and IOS and it has close to native speed. Normally I am…
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About 9 years ago, I built an online system for taking applications for people looking to get their kids into a charter school in North Carolina. Over the ensuing years, I will say that the system has been very solid….
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Traditionally, the Charter School for whom this system was made had external software that ran the actual lottery. It was a cumbersome process where we would need to export the registrant data into an excel format, then import it into…
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Form spam is when a bad actor creates a script that submits lots of fake data to your real data. This is potentially very costly to reconcile and usually not discovered until a significant amount of fake data is submitted….
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My garage doors has been operating marginally for quite a while. I’d mess with the settings, watch YouTube videos and basically tinker around with the adjustments trying to get it working right. I’ve resorted to manually opening and closing them…
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What’s it take to break PVC – Field Experiement? Part 1 I love to know from first hand experience. I usually feel vulnerable to taking information from someone whose values and standards I do not know. In the world, there…
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