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name	Chris W. Rea
member for	14 years
seen	Dec 15 '22 at 11:27
website	pragmaticmoney.ca
location	Toronto, Canada

Husband, dad, computer geek, professional software craftsman, Canadian.

Interests: technology, personal finance, personal productivity, books, music. Within personal finance, specific interests include retirement planning, taxes, investing, self-employment.

I founded the Personal Finance & Money Stack Exchange, and continued as a moderator for 4 years. I resigned my role effective October, 2013 in order to focus more on my family and business.

Twitter: @cwrea LinkedIn: in/chriswrea Google+: +ChrisWRea

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Chinese Language: Why are “Peking” and “Beijing” two different names for the same place?

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?

Personal Finance and Money: What can I replace Microsoft Money with, now that MS has abandoned it?

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?

Mathematics: What are some mathematically valid tricks or shortcuts that can be used to multiply numbers in your head?

Chinese Language: What are the common parts and history of the Chinese and Japanese written languages? What are the differences?

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?

IT Security: My boss thinks that running an automated application vulnerability scanner is sufficient to certify our application is secure. Why isn't it?

Theoretical Computer Science: Is integer factorization an NP-complete problem? What notable reference works have covered this?

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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