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this is a great Steve Jobs story, from the engineer who wrote v1 of the MacOS X Dock:
At one point during a trip over, Steve was talking to Bas and asked how things were coming along with the Dock. He replied something along the lines of “going well, the engineer is over from Ireland right now, etc”. Steve left, and then visited my manager’s manager’s manager and said the fateful words (as reported to me by people who were in the room where it happened).
“It has come to my attention that the engineer working on the Dock is in FUCKING IRELAND”.
I was told that I had to move to Cupertino. Immediately. Or else.
I did not wish to move to the States. I liked being in Europe. Ultimately, after much consideration, many late night conversations with my wife, and even buying a guide to moving, I said no.
They said ok then. We’ll just tell Steve you did move.
(via Niall Murphy)