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I don't know why they just can't focus new hires on being in SF and letting original staff remain where they are while dangling a juicy carrot for them to move. Forcing them to move or leave is really crappy. This is a good way to piss off everyone who has committed time at the same time as soiling their reputation.

A couple months ago I was contacted by Amazon recruiters, they are/were hiring heavily for a new 'logistics' operation. The recruiter would not say a whole lot except that they were working on a delivery network.

So it seems they have the physical stuff in place but now they're working out on how to do the 'last mile' as it were.

The work sounded really interesting, I did not pursue because I did not want to move to Seattle.

I wonder which will come first:

A MS like product that is general purpose or GoPro and others start integrating gyroscopes into their products to take advantage of this similar technology.

The MS presentation really resonated with me since I do take a lot of video from my mountain biking trips but much of it is not interesting or hard to watch. I don't think I'll ever strap my iPhone to my chest so I'd like an action cam setup that can also deliver these types of videos.

In any case, this 'hyperlapse' processing is cool and I want to use it (just not on instagram).

I still 'make the effort' to use google maps even though it would be easier to just use apple maps since like the article states, it's automatic and easy.

I do give apple maps a try, even recently, however _every_ time I use apple maps it gives me directions I know are inferior or it will put me near my destination but in an incredibly inconvenient spot.

For example: The other week I wanted to find a way to a train station, I used Siri and let it open up and plan via apple maps. It 'found' my destination and placed the map marker at the nearest possible spot (the map did not have the station lot or it's connecting road). The problem was that the closest spot was on the other side of the tracks with no way to cross except take a multi-mile detour.

Just the other day I had to make the same trip, this time I used google maps and not only did have the whole station complex on the map it correctly routed me to it.

I simply cannot trust apple maps. It may be easier to use via siri or safari links but if it wastes my time by giving me crap information than it really is not helping. A few seconds of copy and pasting addresses into google maps app or using it's built in search is well worth not having to worry about taking a forced apple detour.

Why does this story keep getting killed on HN?

Anyways, this is a huge clusterfk and a stupid comment and an offhand tweet has cost two people their jobs and stirred up a hornet nest nest of vitriol.

What a monster cockup that all turned out to be. Instead of some minor embarrassment for saying something silly two people are now out of work.

What does this mean for any future findings from this effort? For the purpose of examining ancient lifeforms in this lake; is the lake now considered contaminated by surface organisms?

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I really have zero desire to touch my laptop screen. Maybe it's years of conditioning to not smudge my screen or it could be that lifting my hands off the keyboard to pinch and swipe at my screen would be more irritating then using a mouse.

With that being said. I'm all for high density screens in laptops!

Maybe it's because I ride a bus but not a train. I've never seen a 'raised eyebrow' when someone pulls out an iPad or other larger-than-phone device to read or otherwise pass the time with.

I've been waiting to buy an iMac for my house/kids but I held off until I saw a teardown and how hard it would be upgrade the RAM / HD. Glad I did, having to unglue the screen just to get to these components is a non-starter for me.

I think they mean that the layout of the die components were laid out and optimized by hand rather than letting an algorithm do it. I could be wrong though, I'm not an EE.

Most days I will wear a t-shirt that I have been given either though a conference or other means. I wear them mostly because I like them and want to be identified as a developer (by other developers or people who 'know').

So, I like these shirts and happily wear them to my co-working space or around town and to industry meet-ups. I have never paid for one (outside of conf fees) and probably never will.

I might pay for a service that bundled up several shirts from companies I cared about only to cover the cost of shipping and 'time.' But forking over $15 for a single shirt from some random start-up does not make much sense to me.

Several (many?) banks do this. I've used citibank's 'virtual account numbers' in the past when dealing with merchants I did not trust.

Going to college (as an adult) was by far the best thing I have ever done for myself.

I already had a career and thought I knew it all but the experience of working on theory and mixing in with some seriously smart people really pushed me to places that I would never have gotten to on my own.

Also I owe much of my current success to the relationships I formed during my time at university.

You have badlands national park located near Minneapolis MN. I don't know if this was meant to be a joke or not but you're off by several hundred miles.

I've experienced exactly the same thing that was described in this article. All the way though to installing more ram and disabling the dynamic pager (this is a late 2011 mbp).

Like the author I was shocked at how accustomed I was to waiting for an app to become responsive again. I was trained to wait on the OS to do it's business before I could do my work. Now things happen as quickly as I can think to do them, this is how computing should be.

Wow, this is awesome. We have two large dogs that we always have trouble finding affordable boarding for when we can't take them with us.

A quick search on this site turned up several options that look superior to the boarding we have been using and at half the price.

Solid business!