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name Chris W. Rea
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pragmaticmoney.ca
location Toronto, Canada
age 37

Independent software craftsman and problem solver.  15+ years professional experience.  Hons. B.Sc. @ utoronto.ca w/ CompSci, Commerce, Math.  Interests: technology, startups, personal finance, investing, personal productivity, politics, movies, music.

I'm a moderator at money.stackexchange.com, the Stack Exchange site for personal finance. 

See also:
   twitter.com/cwrea
   www.linkedin.com/in/chriswrea
   careers.stackoverflow.com/chriswrea
   blog.dynasphere.ca
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IT Security: To secure my web site with HTTPS, does it matter which company I source my SSL certificate from, or just that the browser recognizes it?
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Chinese Language & Usage: Why are “Peking” and “Beijing” two different names for the same place?
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Personal Finance and Money: What can I replace Microsoft Money with, now that MS has abandoned it?
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Software Quality Assurance & Testing: Our management thinks if developers are doing unit tests, it's good enough. How can we convince them other testing is needed?
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Mathematics: What are some mathematically valid tricks or shortcuts that can be used to multiply numbers in your head?
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Chinese Language & Usage: What are the common parts and history of the Chinese and Japanese written languages? What are the differences?
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Theoretical Computer Science: Are hash functions such as SHA-1, SHA-256 etc. provably “one-way” in their complexity, i.e. easy to compute and provably hard to reverse?
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IT Security: My boss thinks that running an automated application vulnerability scanner is sufficient to certify our application is secure. Why isn't it?
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Theoretical Computer Science: Is integer factorization an NP-complete problem? What notable reference works have covered this?
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Game Development: What major game “engines” are available to facilitate game development; i.e. to not have to start from scratch?
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