Weekly Random: #127

Excellent

• F1 Telemetry for Rookies

Miscellaneous

• What’s it like to own a Tesla Model S? – The Oatmeal
• WWI in Photos – The Atlantic (still work-in-progres)
• WWII in Photos – The Altantic

• Should your job exist?
• discussion on reddit
• Reddit’s /r/BasicIcome subreddit
• Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work
• 25 Things I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco

• I work in a medieval castle

• The Night PlanetSide Nearly Got Cancelled – Don Neufield
  • … that 2nd lead programmer who left after a week? Guess who that was. Except it was after four months, not a week. And I left because I realized some things are too far broken to be fixed without making major life sacrifices.
  • But I am glad to see that Don is doing well. He was a brilliant C++ programmer. And from this recent article, I see he’s transcended c++ and is still brilliant.

Technical

• Learning modern OpenGL
• Computers are *fast*!
• iPad charger teardown: inside Apple’s charger and a risky phony