JohnSz

I use Spaced Repition for chess openings as I can't refer to a book while playing a tournament game. That's not the case for programming.

A blast from the past. Amazing language for math. My friends and I tried to write entire programs as one line of code, something possible in APL.

Montreal has rent control. The result is that its financially inadvisable to renovate. Part of the rent control is you can raise the rent $31/year per $1,000 of renovation. That's a 30 YEAR payback. You can be replacing a roof the second time before you've recovered the costs for the first time, even forgetting about inflation and opportunity costs.

Other provisions of the rent controls are just as restrictive.

The result is rental buildings here are in poor shape, as owners let their buildings degrade and then sell them. Few are being built.

Well ... there are more rental voters than landlord voters.

I'm rather impressed, especially after using npm for some 4 years without considering this. Thanks.

I have regrets most times I did not follow this advice.

This reminds me of www.zidisha.org where you can make micro-loans to 3rd-world individuals.