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by jcoby 12y ago
Turns out I was remembering wrong. The A- downgrade was from not supporting forward-secrecy in all reference browsers which is an issue with openssl than the recommended cipher suites.
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by jcoby 12y ago
AFAIK it's also impossible to get an A+ if you want to support older browsers and OSs (the intermediate and old settings from this site) due to BEAST. Seems like XP, Vista, and IE <= 9 were all affected by using the modern cypher su
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by jcoby 12y ago
The Falcon 9 still has to deal with heat cycles, vibration, and soot/chemicals byproducts from the engines. The heat cycles and vibration lead to work hardening and cracking or softening of components. Soot can and will get into everyt
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by jcoby 12y ago
Thanks, but that's a wholly separate issue from what I was talking about. When you have UTF8 data in the IPN, PayPal translates it to win1252 in the IPN. But it verifies the IPN against the original UTF8 data. The only way to fix it is
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by jcoby 12y ago
Google Checkout was awful to work with. It was hard for the vendor to setup and use. It was hard to program against. It was hard for the customer to use. It was hard to test. And of course it had Google's famous lack of support. Speaki
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by jcoby 12y ago
IPNs are annoyingly difficult to use. Some accounts simply will not send them until an IPN URL is set, even for transactions that include the notify_url in the request. You cannot even see the IPN history until you enter an IPN URL, even if
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by jcoby 13y ago
I've heard that starting pay for ATP or cargo is somewhere in the low $20s and schooling is in the mid $100s. Is there any truth to that?
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by jcoby 13y ago
True. Or they bought the plane 20+ years ago and still own it. When I go to EAA meetings I'm the youngest by 15-20 years and I'm in my 30s. I don't think I've ever seen a privately owned certified plane that was newer th
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by jcoby 13y ago
The private pilot is a dying breed. Skyrocketing costs make it all but impossible for most people to get into. Even getting your private pilot's license often costs $8k-$10k. And then you are looking at $150/hr to fly a 20-30 year
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by jcoby 13y ago
In the US an ultralight has to be under 254 pounds and does not require any training or licensing to fly. In most other countries an ultralight is more like the sport class in the US. At 254 pounds you want light and simple. FBW requires ac
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by jcoby 13y ago
I don't think body shops will much care either way once they get over the initial shock and how to prep for paint. Most body work these days is remove & replace of large panels. Instead of welding they will have to use adhesives (o
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by jcoby 13y ago
FAR 91.21 is the rule that is being enforced: (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, no person may operate, nor may any operator or pilot in command of an aircraft allow the operation of, any portable electronic device on
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by jcoby 13y ago
A few things really stand out for me: 1) I am shocked how slow EC2 is and how expensive. A m1.large is $0.240/hr or ~$175/month. And it's 7-10x slower than a $350/mo dedicated box. You would be spending $1500/mo to equal one dedicated box (
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by jcoby 14y ago
You will know when it becomes a problem. The helpdesk gets flooded. Servers go down. You get white pages and 500 internal server error pages. The entire site folds because a mouse farts. You add new servers and they get crushed. You scrutin
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by jcoby 14y ago
I went through your list and know the answer to nearly all of them. Hell I've run into most of those problems and more. (Except for the motorcycle battery; I have used my charger on my bike battery several times at the 5A 12V setting with n
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by jcoby 14y ago
Why would you brine a chicken breast for 24 hours!? Wouldn't this account for the difference in texture? With the surface area to mass ratio as one breast has that would be like brining a turkey for a month (maybe more). Everything I've eve
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by jcoby 14y ago
It's a limitation of MySQL unfortunately. MySQL does schema changes by creating a new table with the new schema and copying the old data into it and doing an atomic switch over. The table gets locked for obvious reasons. Percona has pt-onli
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by jcoby 14y ago
This was pretty much the only thing SendGrid could have done in this situation. I haven't seen this much stink over a person's actions at a conference in a long time. I do have to wonder: does this open SendGrid up to litigation by publicly
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Supreme Court sides with book reseller in copyright ruling(latimes.com)
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by jcoby 14y ago
That first link looks like exactly what I need, thank you! I've tried Fedora in the past. I found it unstable and broken and I don't like RPM very much. It's undoubtedly improved since I last tried it (c. 2005-2006) but I don't miss RPM at
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by jcoby 14y ago
That's pretty much exactly what I try to do. I grab the sources for the package and upgrade the underlying php version. I usually have to grab the PHP sources from a newer version of Ubuntu and modify it until it builds.
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by jcoby 14y ago
Consistency. I use the system packages right now and Ubuntu does some tricks with the config that I'm used to.
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by jcoby 14y ago
There is no real compelling reason for me to upgrade. The short array syntax is nice but it's not worth spending a day or more interrupting everyone's dev environments and building packages and introducing (potential) instability into somet
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by jcoby 14y ago
Personally, I always wait at least one year before upgrading PHP. There are always segfault or security issues or odd problems in a 5.x.0 release. It's around 5.x.4 that it becomes just stable enough to use. About a month or two before I de
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by jcoby 14y ago
There is a PHP 5.3.7+ implementation of the password API here: https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat
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by jcoby 14y ago
I went on a framework binge over the past two weeks to see what the state of web development was. I looked at a dozen or so frameworks including Go frameworks. I came to the same conclusion you did. Revel was the most promising Go web frame
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by jcoby 14y ago
NULL is one of the most powerful features of SQL. It simply means a lack of data. This means it is neither equal nor not equal to anything else (including NULL). NULL is not a value; it's a state of non-existence. So, for example, if you we
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by jcoby 14y ago
I watched this for three minutes and in that time its value went from 37 to nearly 40 and back to 37 again. Several times. How in the world can you use a currency that changes value by almost 10% every 60 seconds?
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by jcoby 14y ago
I would think that without thrusters that it would be unable to dock with the ISS. According to http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/005/status.html SpaceX says one thruster pod is working, and two are "preferred" to deploy solar a
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by jcoby 14y ago
Oh wow, that's even worse news. Hopefully the override works.

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