paulirwin

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   by paulirwin 9y ago

   Here in Jacksonville, FL the COBOL market is very much in demand. There are companies like transportation, financial, and insurance companies here that have mainframes using COBOL and hire COBOL developers. I believe I remember hearing that
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   by paulirwin 9y ago

   I know for more recent vehicles that is probably true, but as an owner of a 2006 F-150 with the 5.4L 3V Triton V8 that had the infamous spark plug issue, I had to lol with a tinge of sadness at your "last 15 years" comment. Backst
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   by paulirwin 9y ago

   Just trying to constructively help the community and build the body of knowledge around EF. I'd be interested in seeing example code to reproduce your issue, and I'd be happy to look into it. If there is a case where EF errors upd
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   by paulirwin 9y ago

   For anyone that might not be familiar, Entity Framework is an ORM (object-relational mapper). The "blessed" way of doing an update is to retrieve an object from your context, change its properties, and call SaveChanges on the cont
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   by paulirwin 10y ago

   - FLAVOR: all? - HEADLINE: Improve experience of using 3rd-party apt sources - DESCRIPTION: This suggestion is more apt related, but Ubuntu could lead the improvements. Many software providers (Microsoft, Elastic, etc) are using their own a
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   by paulirwin 10y ago

   When did this change? Back in 2012 [1] before there even was a Premium tier, all Azure SQL databases included built-in fault-tolerance with two secondary replicas at any one time. Did they remove this feature for Standard? [1] https:/
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   by paulirwin 10y ago

   raises hand and waves excitedly I'd probably pick PostgreSQL over either of the other two today for any case where my constraint was that I had to have the application run on Linux. Otherwise, I'm going Azure SQL Database or
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   by paulirwin 10y ago

   This post made me realize the human effort behind all of these tools that I use and love like SSL Labs but I take for granted. Thank you for your work and to all the other free tool authors that go unrecognized.
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   by paulirwin 10y ago

   Agreed. VS supports dozens of languages across web, desktop, mobile, etc. C#, VB, F#, C, C++, JavaScript, T-SQL, Python... and that's just what I can list off the top of my head. Even with single languages in the list it's not app
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    by paulirwin 10y ago

    The exact problem with Web.config modules is that they are never handled in your code, only in the config. It also is very IIS-specific, precluding it from working easily with other web servers cross-platform. With OWIN, by starting with co
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    by paulirwin 11y ago

    Terribly sorry for your loss. My younger brother passed away due to leukemia and I feel your frustration. I do want to give some credit to Light the Night though. It is run by Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, not ACS. LLS has an 84% score o
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    by paulirwin 11y ago

    When you say post-quantum certs, do you mean using a technique like key stretching (i.e. PBKDF2) to slow down the brute force time?
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    by paulirwin 11y ago

    I organized Code on the Sea 2015 ( http://www.codeonthesea.com/ ) back in Feb/March, and it was a very rewarding experience. Best of luck with your cruise conference!
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    by paulirwin 12y ago

    The only person I know that drinks almond milk regularly is in fact not vegan, and according to their doctor need to drink almond milk due to reducing their cholesterol intake from all the meat they have eaten in their lives. (Yes, I know t