Sounds familiar.
 
1981 - Two years before I graduate from Electrical Engineering - Big recruiting fair on campus - Most of the grad class has a job offer by end of January. Some kids put downpayment on houses or cars.
 
1983 - The year I graduate - Huge Recession - Nobody is hiring - No recruiting fair - 3 of 200 kids in my EE class have jobs by graduation. I ended up with a not quite engineering job that was a repeat of my previous summer job. It took over a year before most of my class found jobs.

My buddy Andy did the "write exams for other people" thing. He wrote the English 100 final exam about 10 times. Of course they check ID. The always did. You left your student card on your desk and while you were writing someone would walk up and down the rows checking ID. The thing is, Andy was Han Chinese, about 5'6" with medium length dark hair and glasses, so he looked like every second guy at the Uni who was writing the test.

You beat me to it. Around here the real engineers guard their title quite ferociously. Unless you are currently licensed to practice, you had best not be caught using the "e-word". I never could understand why someone would want to claim they were something that they weren't. Sort of like the sad bastards that claim to veterans when they've never served.
 
You can now get a degree in Software Engineering here but I understand it is basically an electrical engineering degree with a specialization in software. A regular Computer Science degree is not the same thing.

Replying to my own post - sorry. This just in "The president-elect says: "We're going to have insurance for everybody. There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us." from today's interview with the President-Elect.

It's not something you would get away with at any Vegas Casino, but a known cheat is to simply increase your bet (slide another chip on the pile) when you have a winning hand.

I saw some Trump voters being interviewed on TV yesterday, and they were quite certain that Trump was not just going to repeal Obamacare, he was going to replace it with something cheaper and better. I'll be curious to see how he manages that.

That's getting to be old news. I do remember those days, but lately they seem to have upped their game.My sister bought her kids mid-range Dell Inspiron laptops for university three years ago and they're still running. My work computer is a dell box with 16GB and an I7 and it hasn't so much as hiccuped in two years. As always, YMMV.

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan.
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

Oh no. He did bring enough for the whole class. It's just that he took it all at recess.

Learn something new every day! Now I know why I like diet pepsi better than diet coke.

or Rammstein, Accept and the Scorpions. (Who all had their moments.)

What kind of icing?

How can this be? An actual tech story on slashdot. Nothing about creationism, obese people, the lack of women in STEM or mass shootings. Maybe I'll see if it happens again tomorrow.

The old jokes are the best.

The best word for Rain on your wedding day is "unfortunate", not "ironic".