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Fantastic story.

> When I worked on the Apple Maps team, 12 of my colleagues were Etak alumni.

What a legacy! It's gratifying to hear of these long-dead companies/products with incredible engineers who are still out there slinging code with the best of them.




Stan Honey, heavily mentioned in the article, most famous for his contributions to sailing, also built the yellow first down line graphic were used to seeing in American football.


> incredible engineers who are still out there slinging code with the best of them.

I'd think that it's everyone else at Apple who's slinging code with the best of them.


Yes, sorry. That's exactly what I meant to say! Pioneers.


Now I understand why apple maps so bad.




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