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Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Globalization(theoildrum.com)
43 points by pif 14y ago|45 comments
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What Could Possibly Be Worse Than Failure?(thedailywtf.com)
2 points by pif 14y ago|0 comments
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by pif 14y ago
Nice to know, thanks! But, how does it work with file names containing spaces (or other strange characters)? Edit: just to clarify: my question concerns the zsh method. Regarding find+xargs, I wrote that comment :-) Actually, this edit woul
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by pif 14y ago
What a wonderful time that was for particle physicists! You could discover new stuff with two detectors small enough to be charged on a balloon. Today you need enormous machinery and several hundreds of people. When I worked on KLOE ( http:
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Cosmic rays discovered 100 years ago(cerncourier.com)
26 points by pif 14y ago|2 comments
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by pif 14y ago
Why not recursive? Use the following command if you want to have one directory per idea, rather than a single file: find -type f -print0 | xargs --null ls -ltr
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by pif 14y ago
> If you asked anyone a hundred years ago if they thought they could have real-time communication with someone half way around they world, they would think you were crazy. It's a different situation: before the radio was invented, peopl
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by pif 14y ago
Indeed, all the experiments located under Gran Sasso are reporting measured speeds compatible with light speed (in the vacuum). Here's the CERN press release: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/pressreleases/releases2011/pr... There are also
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by pif 14y ago
The most important part for me, as an employee, is what I do at work. More than how my company changes the world, I'm interested in what I'm asked to change in the company. And, rather than than a project like: "Here are the specs, when w
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by pif 14y ago
> Let the team members in the trenches make the decisions and make them own the consequences of their decisions. This! And this: Maybe it’s an extension of the deeply held view that from an economic viewpoint, it would be ideal if peop
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by pif 14y ago
He writes "number" bytes into a temporary file and then, starting from the beginning, re-reads them in blocks of "divisor" bytes each. "fread" returns the number of full blocks read from the stream.
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by pif 14y ago
> I don't think distros should be afraid to break compatibility with main if main is making a change that makes no sense. Hi, I don't agree. Different versions of a tool showing different behaviour for the same option is enough for me;
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by pif 14y ago
Just to say, moving or tar+removing does not change anything from this point of view. A file will exist until at least one process holds it open. As dredmorbius said, use lsof if this is a concern for you.