> From the early legal controversy to now if there's one thing we can expect from geohot is that he's gonna think he's god's gift to programming and everyone whose work he disagrees with are losers.

As one of many who has seen him doing his thing alongside others, yeah he’d think that. And he’d be right.

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sarchertech 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> think he's god's gift to programming and everyone whose work he disagrees with are losers

If he thinks like that (I don’t know him), he needs to limit the scope of what he works on to projects he can accomplish completely on his own.

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drannex 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good.

Does this mean everything he does or says is right? absolutely not, sometimes its myopic and tunnel-vision induced with a smidgen of good points hidden within. Does he come across as 'off' to some people? a slight god-complex? is he likely hardcore autistic and miss practically all social niceties? absolutely, obviously unverifiable, true.

He should have gone into Academia (not that he would have excelled at the 'school' side of it), and he still could, because I am sure in the future he will be an excellent eccentric and transformative professor or researcher, if he wasn't so caught up in the rat-race libertarian capitalistic technology scene.

With all that said, even though we align on many things here, I don't think he or myself could stand being in a room with each other for anything more than a few minutes.

	▲	sarchertech an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. I don’t know the guy, but if what the person replied to is correct about how he views himself and people who disagree with him, it doesn’t matter how good he is. You don’t want to be on a team with that. You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it. Let him make something on his own and sell it to you. Or let him grow up a bit.

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khalic 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

lol, are you the author by any chance?

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myrmidon 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Unlikely.

This is him, at least according to that account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=georgehotz

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khalic 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh well, guess that settles it /s

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tangenter 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People flexing on HN not knowing who geohot is. Sad.

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bena 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you're being accused of being a sockpuppet.

	▲	red-iron-pine 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		51% of the internet is now bots. entirely possible it's not a person. but we're talking about geohot here, entirely possible he built an agent to handle all criticism
	▲	khalic 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Bingo