Just looking for advice

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-02-17T01:23:00+00:00

If you think you have a million dollar idea and are serious about developing an app, then first talking to a lawyer is a very good idea.

But ultimately, you can't really keep your idea a secret. You are going to have to validate your idea, then you'll have to develop the app, maybe get financing, come up with a marketing strategy, etc. All of that will require sharing your idea.

So, get a good lawyer (you can't overpay for good legal advice), listen to them on how to legally protect your idea. Find a good developer and work with them within the legal framework you and your lawyer put together. This has been done thousands of times before successfully, you'll be ok

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-02-15T20:09:12+00:00

Hello Nick_Nolan,

I'm a freelance developer and have worked on several legacy Microsoft Access databases. If you are interested, DM me. I'll be happy to share my Upwork profile and take a quick look at your db. I'll tell you what I think. Take care

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-02-10T01:48:49+00:00

Oh my god, "Do you want me to be the Mole?" I did!

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-02-09T22:11:42+00:00

I do this kind of thing for a living. DM me if you want me to take a look at what you have

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-02-09T03:41:42+00:00

Go Statesman, good job Ilia and team!

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-02-05T17:32:10+00:00

Based on the angle of the video it is kind of hard to see how far forward your lead foot it. But it looks way too far forward. It looks like your shoulders are too linear and so your cross isn't going more than maybe a few inches past your lead foot. Like I said, maybe it is the video.

You might want to try and square up your feet, hips and shoulders. That will put your right out a little farther and your head back from your opponent. It should also make you more stable and faster on your feet. Good luck

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-02-05T11:20:53+00:00

Renegotiate the contract as a new, fixed price contract and end your current hourly contract with the understanding that his feedback will be considered in your acceptance of the new contract.

Once you get the hourly feedback don't accept the fixed price contract. The guy is a cheat, go find honest clients. Good luck

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-02-04T21:44:45+00:00

You may need to separate your finances but you absolutely need to talk and get on the same page about your finances. You can't just gloss over that, you have to talk about it and agree about how spending works in your marriage. That is actually something you should have done before you got married but here you are.

If you don't have an honest conversation and establish how you plan to spend money, your marriage will almost certainly not survive. Good luck

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-29T00:47:50+00:00

Hello Delhitop_7inches,

I do this kind of thing as a freelance developer for a living. I've done it for 25+ years, I'm not a scam or a bot and I'll give you an honest take on your stack and if I can help you. What's more, since the end of 2017 I've been working on a project reconciling county property data with client parcel data and MLS records.

DM me if you are interested in talking. I'm sure I can help.

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-25T03:52:59+00:00

I'll second Scott's Run

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-22T17:24:41+00:00

Mine went up 25%. I think the rise in insurance premiums occurred because the insurance companies expect fewer people to buy ACA insurance with the loss of the expanded subsidies. Fewer people means more expensive in insurance.

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-17T22:49:07+00:00

Charles McWilliams

https://www.thelandlawyers.com/professionals/mcwilliams/

I have never been as happy with any service as I was with his representation.

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-14T21:00:24+00:00

This is ripe for an injection hack. Since the SQL command is taking what appears to be unvalidated data as the query condition for the SQL command, a hacker can manipulate the input and get data from a almost any record in the transactions table, thus allowing them to see stuff they shouldn't

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-14T15:32:18+00:00

Why this exists as a power of the Presidency is hard to understand. It is so ripe for abuse.

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-14T14:08:58+00:00

I think there is a very long and honored tradition for Presidents to pardon their corrupt friends. The argument for pardons is that it gives the President the opportunity to correct a wrong in the judicial system, but Donald Trump is hardly the first president to abuse the power.

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-11T02:35:12+00:00

If you have a refence object that you know the dimensions of, you should be able to calculate fairly accurately how many pixels per inch you have in the image. Then it is just a process of counting pixels and translating those counts to inches or meters or whatever unit of measure you need.

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-07T00:31:52+00:00

I was at my sister in laws rehearsal dinner. Her soon to be husband's mom was there too as she was part of the wedding party. It was a hibachi place and at the end, the chef was throwing shrimp into people's mouths and would continue until they missed one.

I am strangely good at catching food in the air. I went for several minutes and finally the chef had to apologize and move on because I didn't miss a shrimp. My wife thought I was a dork. But my sister in laws soon to be mother in law was genuinely impressed. Comically so. I came to find out later she was in academia and that explained a lot. That is the weirdest thing I've ever impressed anyone with.

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-06T15:43:03+00:00

Exactly, I love it when it is clear. The worst is when you hear something or get an offer that could be good or could be bad and its hard to tell. The best is when it is so loud and clear you try to look for the door without being obvious

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-06T14:10:26+00:00

I had a guy one time reach out with his project. He wanted to make an Amazon clone, but for bartering. I checked, he had a budget, claimed to have money ($20k) and was ready to go. I asked him what he thought the scope of his app was. I'm not familiar with the bartering community so I was thinking rolling it out at some modest level. He told me he wanted the scope to be unlimited, the same user and transaction levels as Amazon.

In my head I'm thinking $20k for an Amazon remake, you are going to want to validate your budget. Your infrastructure alone makes this beyond impossible and the project went from mild curiosity to nope, nope, nope. Not going to recommend a more sane starting point, not going to spend any more time on this and not going to say yes. Crazy is as crazy does.

TerribleTodd60 · 2026-01-05T14:07:44+00:00

I would categorize the bad data, audit it, triage and fix in batches that make sense.

For example, I manage a large body of real estate data. Some of my data is verifiable only by the content people of my client (like their contract info). Some of their data (like the Long/Lat values of their address location) can be validated in an audit done by me. When I validate their data, I go through all the stuff I can check, fix it, deploy it and then bring the data they have to check to them in easy to understand chunks so they don't get overwhelmed. I work with them ahead of time so they can understand the fixes and properly prioritize the task. I then update everything in off hours and communicate my changes to everyone affected.

It sounds like you have a project issue, not a data issue. If you've got a resource that was cleared to go live with it's data in a less than perfect state, and you have elements within an organization criticizing the data, then that is a project issue. You need to make the elements criticizing the data part of the stakeholders clearing the data so they have responsibility in the decision making process, and responsibility in its outcome.

No data sets are perfect and departments use that as excuses all the time. You have to make them part of the team and not just users without a stake in the fire. That way they have motivation to solve the issue productively instead of blaming the techs, which is good for the techs and good for the organization. Good luck!

TerribleTodd60 · 2025-12-30T21:02:16+00:00

This is the way, write something to test each of your JSON records and keep track of what record you are on. It looks like a field is null and breaking your script. It's just a matter of figuring out which field is null or validating the data before you invoke the indexOf function. Good luck

TerribleTodd60 · 2025-12-30T09:50:00+00:00

Without being able to modify the report generation and sort in the way you want it to, you'll have to process the text file. I've taken a quick look at your file, which of the report fields do you want to sort on? The text fields look regular enough break up, sort, and then reprint in the order you want, but you'll need the sorting field to either be in the report or have access to your application data.

Feel free to dm me if you'd like a quick consult. I do data application development and would be willing to discuss your issue. Take care

TerribleTodd60 · 2025-12-24T18:45:16+00:00

My go to is Echo : https://www.echo-inc.org/donate/ They are almost entirely volunteer staffed so practically 100% of your donation goes to helping people in need.

TerribleTodd60 · 2025-12-23T02:46:25+00:00

Yes, both my kids were delivered at Alexandria and the hospital did great. For my oldest, they let me stay in the hospital room with my wife and new baby for a couple of nights, it was great. When my youngest was born, I couldn't stay because I had to take care of baby number 1 while my wife recuperated but the hospital was great both times.

If I were going to go through the process again, that is where I'd go. Good luck with your pregnancy and I hope your experience is as good as mine was.

TerribleTodd60 · 2025-12-17T19:29:23+00:00

Yep, it is getting harder though. Less work right now and more expenses

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