It is be ause you are too old and no one wants to hire an old fart as a "senior software engineer" that writes code or desgns hardware. You do it way too slow relative to someone half your age.
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@FPbyOIE-1kcr.. God, some of you imbeciles that talk don't know shit....No wonder you can't find a job...
No, this doesn't make sense at all. In fact it proves yo don't know shit.... The Droid RAXR MAXX generation was foobared generation from motorola, and that's because it used all TI components, dumbshit, not broadcom or qualcomm.
The WIFI/Bluetooth/GPS wasn't from Atheros (Even it it was, it would have been completely Atheros's engineering, since Qualcomm bought Atheros in 2011, same year this phone came out, meaning any/all the engineering would have eeen from Atheros up until then),
I remember this phone well, because Motorola decided to go the cheap route with this phone, and didn't put the #1 connectivity chip from Broadcom either. Motorola wasn't the cheap stupid route of spending a lot of R&D on a phone and then trying to find the shittiest components to make it cheap, so it stuck in a TI Instruments WL1285C Bluetooth/Wi-Fi/GPS chip in there. The phone also used a OMAP processor from TI, despite TI's announcement that is was getting out of the app processor business. Also, coupled with generally a shitty wifi manager in the android o/st hat existed in android 2.x to android 4.1, the phone of course was a POS...
vye: Ex-QCOM middle-aged white guy here. To be fair, in QCT at least, QCOM's goal was essentially to put any sh*t on chips that would placate the customers for awhile. In the end, it didn't matter how good it was; so long as it was done on time.
This actually makes sense, I think Qualcomm almost killed off motorola because Motorola mistakenly believed that the 802.11 silicon in the chipsets worked. Most rational handset makers used Broadcom silicon for the 802.11, but Motorola made a huge mistake and tried to get the Qualcomm silicon working in the Droid RAXR MAXX generation, and it never, I mean NEVER EVER, worked properly. I returned 2 phones because they couldn't hold a signal 2 feet away from my access point, or any access point.
Silly Q, blowing up its American customers, once again!
vye: Ex-QCOM middle-aged white guy here. To be fair, in QCT at least, QCOM's goal was essentially to put any sh*t on chips that would placate the customers for awhile. In the end, it didn't matter how good it was; so long as it was done on time. And in the end, they didn't need the high end skills to do this. The only way to increase head count in the overworked division was to lay off the eexpensive senior experts and higher cheaper H1b labor. We all got screwed in the end: The "old guys" because we were laid off if we didn't get the hell out first; the H1bs because they are being less to do a relatively short-term job, that may have limited future utility in their careers; and QCOM--because they got rid of the people who were best situated to increase their IP portfolios. Karma is a bitch.
Short the stock. Or just enjoy the dividends and treat yourself to a good dinner.
@FPbyOIE-vye. Whenever there's a new project, it's interesting to see how a bunch of burnt out old farts work versus younger guys....In the same amount of time that the burnt out old farts talk about having the perfect design, perfect architecture, how something can't be done a certain way because to do it properly would take 6+months to complete, the young guys, working in an agile way, have something modular and working in one month or less. The remaining 5 months is left to the old guys who talk so much about making things perfect before any work gets done, of course they are the ones that needs to spend time cleaning up....That's what they are supposedly good at...lots of process, lots of red tape, lots of bullshit meetings, lots of "it can't be done that way"...Move at a snail's pace, and argue over who's dick size is bigger when it comes to technical prowess...Just saying....
I agree with the middle aged white guy. These punks coming out of school are so cocky, yet they don't know their ass from a hole in the wall. Older workers tend to do a much better job. Why? Because they know how long it takes to do it RIGHT. Younger workers don't, they just put out garbage and let the older worker fix it. You get what you pay for. And you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Unfortunately these days the bean counters just look at what looks good on paper. Since younger workers don't get paid shit, they get to keep their jobs.
Work harder not smarter. Stay up til 4 am churning out buggy line after line. #foreveryoung
ooh/yyw: Actually, if you can establish a good record for working remotely, employers will let you do it. Fortunately, I have. As for the weight, it is coming off slowly--although it is much easier to put it on than take it off.
wlj: Facebook isn't some great breakthrough in coding. It's a vehicle for advertising and glomming data for advertisers--which is profitable, but not interesting for most "real" engineers. Designing something like the supercomputers or servers that categorize, store, or allow manipulation of that data is much more interesting. That's done by other companies. Plus, the whole concept behind FB is stupid, IMO. After awhile, your wall fills up with ads for stuff you would never buy, and white-trash recipes for food like pizza made from Pop 'n' Fresh biscuit dough, canned sauce, Velveeta slices, and salami. No thanks....
Eating at home because it is healthier? Doesn't seem like it's working. Most of guys are overweight. And next you are going to say that is a medical condition. Lol
Working from home...lol...that is saying
..not working at all....thanks for the good laugh.
kja: So you think we only work 5 hours per day? Some of us also work from home from 6:00 to 9:30 to avoid sitting in traffic. We also eat lunch at home because it's healthier, and do about 1.5 hours of reading and answering email while we're there. Yeah, we leave early because we'd much rather do another 2 hours of work from home than sit in traffic. We also do about 10 hours of related research on weekends maintaining those cutting edge skills that makes out code superior to yours. So yeah, our code is better. The fact that you can't understand this because you learned Linux on a MS OS is not my problem.
@FPbyOIE-xeq... If YOU are so creative and great, why haven't you invented a company like Facebook, like Mark Zuckerberg has? After all, he's only 31... Most of you complaining about not having a job are well over that age. Seems to me, you people whining aren't exactly the best or the brightest either. You just cost a lot more for the same skill set.
If H1B people are so great why not invent the next big thing in your Homeland and lift your country out of poverty?
@FPbyOIE-jum... You get what you pay for? Really. I find a lot of the older folks 40 year old's, come in around 10 leave around 5, take 2 hours lunch breaks, and are so thick-headed, they think everyone else's code is shit and their code is the best. In fact, they can be so pig-headed that no one gets along with them...And so, of course when a layoff happens, they are the first to go...Because no one else can work with them....
As a white middle aged guy I've found most of the younger engineers still make stupid mistakes and the foreigners don't know squat about designing something or troubleshooting/debugging. They're all products of degree mills. You get what you pay for.
Interesting OP. Now go back to Delhi
Cool story bro
Wonder who wrote his post for him.
trolling has gone from lame to pathetic