Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

What to do now ...

A person's life is not measured by the size of their house or how many miles you live from the beach. A person's life is measured by his or her positive impact on humanity. I realized half a decade ago that my work at Qualcomm was impacting nobody, because of the way Qualcomm tended to pursue pointless "pet" projects. And what's worse, when I finally found a project that had already impacted the world (impact from another company, qualcomm was just getting into the business), I realized that our only goal would be to do some prototyping, write some patents, and move onwards because we were all acting just like the patent trolls (broadcom, interdigital, intellectual ventures, etc.)

I even had a cold-call from Nathan Myhrvold trying to recruit me, in 2009. When I look back, I realized that Qualcomm had become the patent troll it so despised in its early ground-breaking years, by 2010.

So please do as I did. If your job isn't producing anything, take a job somewhere else where you can do something useful and make improvements to the world. Tell the execs with your feets that their ideas are stupid. If nobody will work on a stupid idea, then half the company would be gone by now.

And take care! Your future will get brighter if you follow my advice. What do you want it to read on your epitath? "He lived in a nice House in San Diego right by the beach!" or maybe "Here lies a person who was a model of humanity and made the world a better place!"

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It's about time you people get your asses handed to you after overcharging all those OEM suppliers over the years. Don't let the door hit you too hard on your ass in the way out! Deserve all you get!!

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Post ID: @Elx+CDczoHp

Lol

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Post ID: @bUF+CDczoHp

heaven on earth? you have a low opinion of heaven.

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Post ID: @CWH+CDczoHp

why would you care what anyone thinks when you are alive or dead. house by the beach in north county is heaven on earth. a few vacations to tropical places are nice too but those get boring with lack of excitement we have in southern california after a few weeks.

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Post ID: @6QM+CDczoHp

why would you care what anyone thinks when you are alive or dead. house by the beach in north county is heaven on earth. a few vacations to tropical places are nice too but those get boring with lack of excitement we have in southern california after a few weeks.

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Post ID: @xOF+CDczoHp

"If your job isn't producing anything, take a job somewhere else where you can do something useful and make improvements to the world."

Yeah, seriously. WhyWait? Well, okay, I can think of one big reason why you should wait: you might just get a big GTFO package in a couple of months.

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Post ID: @7qy+CDczoHp

A person's life is measured by the total square footage of North County real estate one owns. Jesus said that.

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