One thing that working in Silicon Valley taught me is that loyalty is worthless. Companies don't care about you, so you shouldn't care about them. I was a no-show for the first day of work at Nvidia, I took a job with Electronic Arts instead. The pay at EA was less but the benefits were better and I wasn't sure that Nvidia was going to keep me around for more than a year. No regrets.

I've never failed to show up for an interview though. Even if I had zero intention of taking the job I always felt that it was worth the time to gain experience interviewing at as many different companies for as many positions as possible to improve my ability to cope with the social awkwardness of the interviewing process. My dad had the same sentiment, he was let go from a major company and would take any interview that he was called for simply to get comfortable with the job hunt process again.

I've had interviews where I could tell right away the the person doing the interview had zero intention of hiring me, their disappointment was immediately obvious and they struggled to come up with questions to ask. I simply focused on remaining confident and spent the time practicing good interview techniques, looking at a person's forehead, being mindful of my posture, asking a few select questions of my own, etc... I always felt like I got something out of the process and if anything, impressed the person interviewing me such that they might consider me for a different position if one were available.

For $159 you can get a Nokia 3.1 running pure Android (Oreo) with zero bloatware. It's part of the "Android One" program. The only real downside is that Nokia removed the NFC chip from the US model and it doesn't have any biometric authentication. At that price don't expect flagship performance either.

For $100 more you can get the Nokia 6.1 which includes NFC and a fingerprint reader.

Both phones have a beautiful design accented with metal. They are sleek and can take great daylight pictures. Their nighttime picture taking ability is poor though.

The Air National Guard receives airplanes that are passed down by the USAF. Since the USAF has been getting F-22's they have had F-15's to pass down. There is actually a concern right now that with the Air Force getting so many F-22's there will be a gap in available aircraft for the USAF to pass down for a number of years as the F-22's are expected to have a long service life.

Another Liberal off their "meds". Legalize more drugs, surely that will help! SMH

Microsoft drastically dumbed down SharePoint for Office365 which has made it less prone to failure but nobody bothers to use it still due to the terrible UI that Microsoft forces on everything for the sake of being "touch friendly".

Considering that paper checks still account for over 10 billion payments annually, don't expect voice-based purchases to make a blip on any radar in the next 5-10 years. It was just 6 years ago (2012) that ACH payments overtook paper checks. Even after my parents have died and gone to Heaven there will still be people paying by paper check.

Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov...

The last time my parent's wanted to buy me something they saw online: they emailed me the homepage of the store (rather than the direct URL of the item), a description of the item, and asked me to pay for it myself; then they asked me to tell them what the total was so they could snail mail me a check for the exact amount of the purchase. :|

Time for another name change, that always works when a company name becomes permanently associated with something terrible. SBC, Philip Morris, ValuJet, the list goes on. In the case of Comcast, they need to change both the parent company name and rebrand Xfinity.

I am happy to see you admit that glaciers were going to melt regardless.

Global warming is a natural phenomenon. There is nothing humans can do to stop it and any attempt to do so is foolish. The focus should be on improving our ability to survive the changes in temperature and air quality. Reducing use of fossil fuels is a good start towards that need.

Thanks Slashdot, I needed a laugh. I look forward to seeing scientists in white lab coats on street corners holding signs proclaiming the coming apocalypse.

Any job stating it requires a CS degree does not actually NEED a degree, the HR department is just incompetent and incapable of hiring for a position if their recruitment software shows a particular job title having a degree listed for it. They toss out applicants that do not match what the software tells them. They are worse to deal with than outsourced Indian Help Desk "support". The only degree worth a damn is a business management degree, assuming you ever want to get promoted into management.

Myself and almost everyone else that bought an iPhone 7 still has their dongle sitting new in the box. We will sell you ours for the same price as replacements that are sold at retail. Gotta love how Apple stuff retains value in the aftermarket. Actually, wait about a month and I will have an iPhone 7 to sell you as well since I'm ditching iOS for Android and almost have the iPhone paid off.

The worst Achilles Heel for the $399 Surface Go is the 32GB eMMC storage. eMMC has close to the same performance as an old 5400RPM laptop hard drive. You have to upgrade to the more expensive models of the Go to get a higher performance SSD.

I pay $40/month for 25/2 from AT&T (DSL), cancel at the end of the 1-year agreement, then $30/month (after fees) for 25/5 from Comcast (Cable) for a year and cycle back and forth between the two each year. They both suck but there are zero competitors in Northern Illinois. The only actual hope for a competitor will be 5G from a cellular data provider, assuming they charge a reasonable fee (LOL.)

So have they decide what they're going to rename Austin to?