{"id":1238,"date":"2006-04-16T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/remembering-apple\/"},"modified":"2006-04-16T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T19:10:15","slug":"remembering-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/remembering-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/118\/remembering-apple-the-start-date\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/118\/remembering-apple-the-start-date\">\r\n<p>\r\nA funny piece of trivia about my first job at Apple is that I was technically hired to work on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PowerTalk\">PowerTalk\/AOCE<\/a>, a technology which had just been essentially cancelled, and the former team laid off. Apparently Apple had to keep the sources &#8220;at the ready&#8221; and have somebody prepared to do a quick bug fix if one of the important clients of the software ran into an emergency. So they gave my manager permission to hire a general integration engineer whose <em>top priority<\/em> would be maintaining PowerTalk. This didn&#8217;t exactly thrill me, but the fact is PowerTalk opened the door to my permanent employment at Apple.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut: A funny piece of trivia about my first job at Apple is that I was technically hired to work on PowerTalk\/AOCE, a technology which had just been essentially cancelled, and the former team laid off. Apparently Apple had to keep the sources &#8220;at the ready&#8221; and have somebody prepared to do a quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}