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AvE is great. His humor is a bit of an acquired taste, and not in a good way, but he’s definitely knowledgeable in a field I’m completely unfamiliar with. He do

by Shank 8y ago

AvE is great. His humor is a bit of an acquired taste, and not in a good way, but he’s definitely knowledgeable in a field I’m completely unfamiliar with. He does a lot of incredible tear downs and evaluations of power tools and other things like that with pretty stunning analysis. https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil I cannot stress more, though, that his humor is an acquired taste. If his content and knowledge was any less I would have dropped him in a heartbeat. Maybe it’s just my culture, but the sexual overtone can go off the wall at times.

picklesman 8y ago
Seconded. I especially recommend his teardown of the Juicero, in which he displays his insights into design for manufacture, plastics, metallurgy, electrical engineering, etc, peppered with hilarious and insightful jabs at VC culture. For me, it's his masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ My wife recently watched all 45 minutes and was entertained throughout, despite her not being technical at all. Speaking of which, I also share a distaste for his "engineering boys club" sense of humour. I think his heart is in the right place (though who knows?), but it's definitely from another era, one that I won't be sad to see fade off into the distance. That being said, the rest of the components of his humour (obscure Canadianisms, etc) are great and I enjoy the particularity of it. EDIT: added link
awakeasleep 8y ago
It's not an "acquired taste" Describe it accurately- Low-brow sexual humor that anyone in a position of authority would deem unwelcoming to women
- shmulkey18 8y ago
  "anyone in a position of authority". Hmmm. Let's bring him up on charges before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, eh? AvE is great, and if you watch enough of his episodes you'll see that the old-school jokes are matched by an acceptance of all, save, perhaps, the terminally censorious. I'm looking forward to seeing him teach his daughter to weld.

by Shank 8y ago

picklesman 8y ago

Seconded. I especially recommend his teardown of the Juicero, in which he displays his insights into design for manufacture, plastics, metallurgy, electrical engineering, etc, peppered with hilarious and insightful jabs at VC culture. For me, it's his masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ My wife recently watched all 45 minutes and was entertained throughout, despite her not being technical at all. Speaking of which, I also share a distaste for his "engineering boys club" sense of humour. I think his heart is in the right place (though who knows?), but it's definitely from another era, one that I won't be sad to see fade off into the distance. That being said, the rest of the components of his humour (obscure Canadianisms, etc) are great and I enjoy the particularity of it. EDIT: added link

awakeasleep 8y ago

It's not an "acquired taste" Describe it accurately- Low-brow sexual humor that anyone in a position of authority would deem unwelcoming to women

shmulkey18 8y ago
"anyone in a position of authority". Hmmm. Let's bring him up on charges before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, eh? AvE is great, and if you watch enough of his episodes you'll see that the old-school jokes are matched by an acceptance of all, save, perhaps, the terminally censorious. I'm looking forward to seeing him teach his daughter to weld.