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To: Douglas Rushkoff who wrote (25)	4/14/1998 11:18:00 PM
From: Caroline	Read Replies (5) of 888

Just had a conversation with a co-worker tonight about, and I emphasize, former Fidelity programmers. Apparently Fidelity used to hire the cheapest. Now I have accounts with Fidelity, I'm pretty happy with them. And I am a programmer. I was writing date routines for the past 3 days, using Microsoft Visual Basic. I encountered 6 or 7 bugs in MSFT's date routines. Had I depended on them (MSFT's date functions), nothing'd be right. Including the ability to reference 2/29/00. Or not letting the month "20" through. I can imagine how many low-paid Fidelity programmers ignored even worse versions of these bugs. That's just a tiny, tiny piece of the whole. I don't have any problem believing our brokerage accounts will go all to hell. CB

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