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Tesla motors has huge ambitions. Tesla founder Elon Musk has said he envisions Tesla as an independent automaker, aimed at eventually mass producing fully electric cars at a price affordable to the average consumer. This is a very difficult goal to achieve for several reasons. If you want to produce cheap cars you…
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. –Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
When I turned 18, my parents expected me to go to college- it was the only option, the only way to be a successful adult. I’m a 2nd generation Italian. My mother and grandparents came over to America and bootstrapped themselves from nothing, so nee...
A primer on the oft-confusing BEM notation for CSS
There’s something that’s been bothering me lately. It seems to be some kind of form interface trend where the labels for text inputs are placed inside the fields themselves.
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
Back in November 2012, a Chrome Releases blog post mysteriously stated: "Congratulations to Pinkie Pie for completing challenge: 64-bit exp...
The Rails community has had a few high-profile security issues this week. They are well-summarized, with an alarming list of what follow-ons to expect, by Patrick McKenzie: What the Rails Security Issue Means for Your Startup.
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Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
Attached Code: https://github.com/iainkfraser/cache_transpose Before we begin, the underlined words are briefly described in the gloss...
