If you're good, you don't need to work 70 hour weeks. Also I don't think it's unreasonable to expect programmers to be good at what they do. Ones who aren't should be doing some other job, not dragging down quality and pay rates.
For lands, Google Maps is displaying satellite/aerial imagery. For seas/oceans, they're displaying a seabed topology map. The black is just the color of the ocean as seen by satellites, showing through the sea/land mask.
But the topology around it is shaped like the island is there.
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If you're good, you don't need to work 70 hour weeks. Also I don't think it's unreasonable to expect programmers to be good at what they do. Ones who aren't should be doing some other job, not dragging down quality and pay rates.
Who didn't predict that?
For lands, Google Maps is displaying satellite/aerial imagery. For seas/oceans, they're displaying a seabed topology map. The black is just the color of the ocean as seen by satellites, showing through the sea/land mask.
But the topology around it is shaped like the island is there.
Are you joking when you say "it's particularly nice on OS X"?
Crashes about 5 seconds afters showing me it's absolutely hideous interface.