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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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