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>Certainly, the learning curve is much steep for Unix > utilities than, say, Python. Now what makes you think that? UNIX shell tools have a very consistent interface which is reall…

Well, it's not romantic if it's actually practical. Bottom line, I think, is if you really get the shell, it is almost infinitely useful.

So much of this is still useful and relevant. Kind of amazing how much the web relies upon these ancient (by our standards) tools. UNIX is one of the most incredible technology sto…

This article should be titled, “The latest findings on IQ” because IQ score and “intelligence” in a general sense are very different things. Plenty has been published on the inhere…

I think this is super-interesting, not because I have any real desire to couch surf (or squat in an abandoned building), but because it gives more perspective on the scope of what'…

A strong work ethic may make a lot of sense if you're primarily working for yourself and your family. The author of the How To Drop Out document seems to be more concerned with the…

NetApp and Data Domain are both enterprise-level dedupe vendors who use similar hash functions to find unique strings of bits. Check out their whitepapers. Short answer: not in a m…

It's block-level dedupe, not file-level. This is similar to how Data Domain (www.datadomain.com, recently acquired by EMC for $2.2B) does it. In their customer base, mostly medium …

The survival rate for both groups is exactly 0%.