When I got an offer letter from Apple, the relocation package was much smaller than the one described by the HR person during my interview. I called them on it, and they bumped my grade from 5 to 6 so they could offer the better relocation package.
Unfortunately, their relocation contractor (Cendant, I think?) was even flakier than Apple HR. After a bunch of mistakes, they eventually moved me and my stuff to Cupertino. My car in the process, which was too bad.
Learn your keyboard shortcuts. Take the ten minutes to learn them, and you'll regain hours of your time. Cmd-Q is the shortcut for quit, for example. If you're used to Windows machines, you can switch the cmd key with the Windows key.
Another useful keyboard shortcut for quitting apps:
When you are using Command-Tab to switch through the running apps, you can hit 'q' to quit the selected app, or 'h' to hide it.
This is useful for quickly quitting twenty or so apps that have been running for months and are no longer useful, while leaving the twenty useful ones still open..
http://blogs.msdn.com is mesmerising. I can't believe they encourage their developers to post regularly, and that the feeds go out un-edited by management or marketing. Plus, they have anonymous comments enabled.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ is an impressive effort, and shows how far MS is going with their community outreach.
It's scary how much you can learn from blogs.msdn.com. There are a lot of smart people working at MS, but what are they all working on? The quality and thoughtfulness of the posters there indicates that they must have some killer internal projects.
I bought an Apple Airport Extreme basestation as a gift for a cafe that opened around the corner from my house last year. They had three iMacs, but no wireless, so I thought that it might help bring in some laptop-wielding customers.
Went in a month ago and saw that the cafe, full of white Apple iMacs, had been branded an AMD hotspot. heh..
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When I got an offer letter from Apple, the relocation package was much smaller than the one described by the HR person during my interview. I called them on it, and they bumped my grade from 5 to 6 so they could offer the better relocation package.
Unfortunately, their relocation contractor (Cendant, I think?) was even flakier than Apple HR. After a bunch of mistakes, they eventually moved me and my stuff to Cupertino. My car in the process, which was too bad.
Learn your keyboard shortcuts. Take the ten minutes to learn them, and you'll regain hours of your time. Cmd-Q is the shortcut for quit, for example. If you're used to Windows machines, you can switch the cmd key with the Windows key.
Another useful keyboard shortcut for quitting apps:
When you are using Command-Tab to switch through the running apps, you can hit 'q' to quit the selected app, or 'h' to hide it.
This is useful for quickly quitting twenty or so apps that have been running for months and are no longer useful, while leaving the twenty useful ones still open..
To say that everyone should have a better future isn't the American Dream, its more, IMHO, of the Communist Dream.
Ah, to be thirteen and have access to a computer...
Katie J's lawyer's website says they just started this page: http://www.katiesplace.org
http://blogs.msdn.com is mesmerising. I can't believe they encourage their developers to post regularly, and that the feeds go out un-edited by management or marketing. Plus, they have anonymous comments enabled.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ is an impressive effort, and shows how far MS is going with their community outreach.
It's scary how much you can learn from blogs.msdn.com. There are a lot of smart people working at MS, but what are they all working on? The quality and thoughtfulness of the posters there indicates that they must have some killer internal projects.
Like the parent, this story is ripped off from c2: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KornShellStory
I bought an Apple Airport Extreme basestation as a gift for a cafe that opened around the corner from my house last year. They had three iMacs, but no wireless, so I thought that it might help bring in some laptop-wielding customers. Went in a month ago and saw that the cafe, full of white Apple iMacs, had been branded an AMD hotspot. heh..