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OP says: "suddenly a whole cavalcade of misdirected email was winding up in my inbox" I wonder what kind of email flooding this was like in 1991. 1/day? 1/week?
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You could also have bought $1,000 worth of stock at the time and it would be worth one million today (since 1995 with reinvested dividends, source ChatGPT). Up to you whether the 32 years spent in the office makes the money more worthwhile to you.
Exactly how does one purchase $1,000 in stock of a company never listed on a stock exchange? NeXt was never public. For the love of God, use the right tool. Portfolio back testers are a dime a dozen and easy to use and get 100% accurate answers. LLMs are the wrong tool to get investment expertise from.
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I had mark@apple.com during my time there, accidentally got added to one of the exec’s threads from Tim and felt pretty silly (and didn’t read anything in that thread, couldn’t delete it fast enough, had to email Tim to explain)
There are a lot of stories like this where people accidentally get emails and then not read them. Why wouldn't you read the email?
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Minor nitpicky correction: cron only sends an email if there's any stdout of the job. This is an important distinction because if you have configured mail forwarding, your cron jobs should be configured to output only on error.. then any emails are actionable.
Moreutils has a great command `chronic` which is a wrapper command like `time` or `sudo`, ie. you just run `chronic `. It'll supress stdout and stderr until the command exits at which point it will print only if the exit code was non-zero.
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Yup exactly. I got my retention bonus and 2 months pay and all that stuff without agreeing to anything, and they offered a little bit more to agree not to disparage them. I'm pretty chatty so decided it wasn't worth it ;)
2000 is a pretty low amount. presumably theyd have to spend way more than that to enforce it, so they would NOT spend it, in which case its free money that you shouldnt have turned down because it was way too small for a gag order
When Abhi Talwalkar became CEO, they changed to firstname.lastname. My manager, who had a 17 character last name, was not pleased.
Why only first name? Should have set up `jobs@apple.com` to forward directly to Steve Jobs too and let the comedy ensure.
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: Edit : The OP has history until recently - My message is off base and in the wrong context. Apologies. I feel like I'm in crazy town... Hi - I'm new here. I did something dumb and set up a mail alias so that steve@next.com would go to me. This was a bad idea, I'm sorry. I've changed it to steve@next.com goes to you, not to me. I think that makes more sense. My apologies. Signed, new guy. This was > That is one of t…
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