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Somewhere, there's an intern with "While at Apple, developed state of the art automated feature identification algorithms for mapping team" on his resume.

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> on his resume.

This is Apple. The resume will simply say 'worked at Apple Inc. developing software.'

This is all hilariously overblown and silly. And not about "feature identification algorithms". It's about one error on a map, which Apple probably has already fixed, and will soon if it has not yet.

Have you seen the other thread(s) on the new Apple maps app?

This isn't a one-off. The mapping data is all over the place.

There are a number of examples floating around that make it appear as if Apple is deriving map feature types from their names. For example, a water pumping station labelled as a gas station.

http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/31933329952/the-ta...

What's that about one error being overblown?

> Somewhere, there's an intern with "While at Apple, developed state of the art automated feature identification algorithms for mapping team" on his resume.

I feel worse for the intern with ``Microsoft Windows Notepad'' on his resume.

In fairness, Notepad manages to basically do what you expect it to.

It has an annoying file size limitations, though.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/59578

> It has an annoying file size limitations, though.

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/59578

The link you submitted is for:

    Microsoft Windows 3.0 Standard Edition

    Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1

    Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11

My bad. I can assure you that they persisted long after that, though. I hardly ever used 3.1 and I replaced Notepad long ago due to them.

Vim is far more useful, anyhow.

Responsibility for an application that's been used by tens, if not hundreds, of millions of users? You could do worse on a resume.

Notepad is 179kb of awesome. I have Android applications that do much less and take up megabytes of storage.

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