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Post #186,492 by tuberculosis 12/8/04 9:32:37 PM 8/21/07 6:35:52 AM Reply	AOL cuts 4% of jobs - 750 of em [link\|http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/12/08/aol_cuts_4_of_workforce/\|http://www.boston.co...s_4_of_workforce/] Time Warner Inc.'s America Online division, the biggest US Internet service, said it cut 750 jobs, or about 4 percent of its workforce, amid subscriber losses. Half of the reductions are in Dulles, Va., where AOL is based, spokesman Jim Whitney said yesterday. The rest are in California and Ohio. AOL has about 20,000 employees. The company is cutting in most departments, including in software development and marketing, he said. --- Looks like the recovery is going just swimmingly. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:35:52 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #186,511 by folkert 12/8/04 10:49:43 PM Reply	Yes... just fine. The AOL Hangover recovery is going just fine. The economy recovery... sure is swell too. Swell for extremely small values of Swell though. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source] Here is an example: [link\|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/\|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
Post #186,516 by ben_tilly 12/8/04 11:23:43 PM 12/8/04 11:24:34 PM Reply	Gah I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother) Edited by ben_tilly Dec. 8, 2004, 11:24:34 PM EST Expand All History
Post #186,517 by ben_tilly 12/8/04 11:24:14 PM Reply	I heard about this Apparently someone who a lot of my co-workers know was among the programmers cut in LA. The irony is that he chose AOL because he wanted to work for a stable company... Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #186,560 by Arkadiy 12/9/04 10:16:33 AM Reply	A stable job for a programmer at an ISP? Got to be kidding. AOL had some delusions of grandeur at some point, but now it's nothing but hideously overpriced ISP with no way to make money in the long run. -- This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet. -- [link\|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx\|The] Daily WTF
Post #186,564 by mmoffitt 12/9/04 10:40:46 AM Reply	Heh. Is there a vertical providing stability? bcnu, Mikem Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer. (Just trying to be accepted in the New America)

AOL cuts 4% of jobs - 750 of em - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:35:52 AM EDT

Yes... just fine. - (folkert) - Dec. 8, 2004, 10:49:43 PM EST

Gah -NT - (ben_tilly) - Dec. 8, 2004, 11:24:34 PM EST

I heard about this - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Dec. 8, 2004, 11:24:14 PM EST

A stable job for a programmer at an ISP? Got to be kidding. - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Dec. 9, 2004, 10:16:33 AM EST

Heh. Is there a vertical providing stability? -NT - (mmoffitt) - Dec. 9, 2004, 10:40:46 AM EST

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