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He doesn't strike me as the type of person to lie (except when trolling). His reputation is solid enough that I'm sure he's had discussions with people in the s

He doesn't strike me as the type of person to lie (except when trolling). His reputation is solid enough that I'm sure he's had discussions with people in the space.

zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
He's a crypto scammer. Look up cheap eth
- valianteffort 3y ago
  I mean that was marketed as a memecoin from the beginning. More so than doge even.
  - pixelpoet 3y ago
    He added some code to give himself tons of it and didn't report it to anyone, dismissed it as a joke or something when it was found and then disappeared after hyping the project. Sound familiar? To me he joins the ranks of the most basic shady crypto types.
    - imtringued 3y ago
      You mean he has become Elon Musk?
lannisterstark 3y ago
>his reputation is solid Eh, is it? Not sure if I consider him an authority on anything anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z2y8i0/from_this_this_is_my_mission_an_i_will_accomplish/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z2y8i0/fro... >This is the interview. Build this feature. You don't get source access. Link the GitHub and license it MIT. is akin to "Build this for free, license it MIT so I can use it without any issues, and oh, btw, I dont have authority to hire you, teehee."
- jimmySixDOF 3y ago
  Well he picked the right problem at the time which was (and still is!) search. I was really looking forward to some progress on this and then he deleted tweets and dropped off the system. I would love to see a podcast of him talking about that & fyi @realGeorgeHotz is back on it now to promote Tiny grad/box/corp.
  - threeseed 3y ago
    As someone who has spent 20+ years working in large companies you can spot developers like him a mile away i.e. the sort of behaviour you see with skilled but arrogant grads/interns. The right approach when you're new is to quietly pick a simple problem away from the core services where you can learn the processes and polices needed to get something into Production. More so when you're in a company that is undergoing a brain drain. Then you can progressively move to solving more demanding and critical issues.
    - pseg134 3y ago
      You should write a book or a blog about how to not rock the boat at large companies. Maybe you can call it Going Nowhere Fast.
      - threeseed 3y ago
        You don't need a book about it when it's a concept children understand. Before you run you learn to walk.
        pseg134 3y ago
        Some people were just born to run. Their legs don’t really work right for walking.
      - barrkel 3y ago
        Large companies normally (unlike Twitter) have achieved strong product market fit and are all about tweaks that deliver marginal revenue. Given that they already have a big slice of the market, the multiplier on marginal revenue makes what you're doing worthwhile. "Rocking the boat" is more likely than not to make things worse.
ec109685 3y ago
This wasn’t very impressive: https://www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-george-hotz-resigns-from-twitter-4-weeks-into-his-internship https://www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-george-hotz-resigns-from-t... Spent two weeks trying to find someone to build a faceted search UI and then quit.
- nl 3y ago
  I think deciding to get away from the Musk/Twitter debacle as soon as you realize how bad it is isn't necessarily a bad thing..
  - bboygravity 3y ago
    How is it a debacle and how is it bad?
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
    - threeseed 3y ago
      Because Twitter is trending towards bankruptcy. a) It is valued at about a 1/4 of what it was purchased at. b) Twitter Blue has generated an irrelevant amount of revenue and churn is increasing [1]. c) Roadmap looks poor. Video is a terrible direction where only Google, Amazon, TikTok etc have been able to make the numbers work and that's because it is subsidised through other revenue sources. Payments is DOA given Twitter's inability to comply with existing regulations let alone how difficult KYC/AML is to manage. d) Regulatory and legal risk increases by the day. Lawsuits continue to pile up and EU/FTC are hovering around as Twitter is not in compliance with previous agreements. e) Brand safety continues to be a huge challenge that isn't solvable without effectively going back to what Twitter was previously. f) BlueSky and Instagram are both releasing competitor apps to the broader public in the coming months. The market simply won't sustain this many text-based social media apps. [1] https://github.com/travisbrown/blue https://github.com/travisbrown/blue
      - 3y ago

He doesn't strike me as the type of person to lie (except when trolling). His reputation is solid enough that I'm sure he's had discussions with people in the space.

zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago

He's a crypto scammer. Look up cheap eth

valianteffort 3y ago
I mean that was marketed as a memecoin from the beginning. More so than doge even.
- pixelpoet 3y ago
  He added some code to give himself tons of it and didn't report it to anyone, dismissed it as a joke or something when it was found and then disappeared after hyping the project. Sound familiar? To me he joins the ranks of the most basic shady crypto types.
  - imtringued 3y ago
    You mean he has become Elon Musk?

lannisterstark 3y ago

>his reputation is solid Eh, is it? Not sure if I consider him an authority on anything anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z2y8i0/from_this_this_is_my_mission_an_i_will_accomplish/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z2y8i0/fro... >This is the interview. Build this feature. You don't get source access. Link the GitHub and license it MIT. is akin to "Build this for free, license it MIT so I can use it without any issues, and oh, btw, I dont have authority to hire you, teehee."

jimmySixDOF 3y ago
Well he picked the right problem at the time which was (and still is!) search. I was really looking forward to some progress on this and then he deleted tweets and dropped off the system. I would love to see a podcast of him talking about that & fyi @realGeorgeHotz is back on it now to promote Tiny grad/box/corp.
- threeseed 3y ago
  As someone who has spent 20+ years working in large companies you can spot developers like him a mile away i.e. the sort of behaviour you see with skilled but arrogant grads/interns. The right approach when you're new is to quietly pick a simple problem away from the core services where you can learn the processes and polices needed to get something into Production. More so when you're in a company that is undergoing a brain drain. Then you can progressively move to solving more demanding and critical issues.
  - pseg134 3y ago
    You should write a book or a blog about how to not rock the boat at large companies. Maybe you can call it Going Nowhere Fast.
    - threeseed 3y ago
      You don't need a book about it when it's a concept children understand. Before you run you learn to walk.
      - pseg134 3y ago
        Some people were just born to run. Their legs don’t really work right for walking.
    - barrkel 3y ago
      Large companies normally (unlike Twitter) have achieved strong product market fit and are all about tweaks that deliver marginal revenue. Given that they already have a big slice of the market, the multiplier on marginal revenue makes what you're doing worthwhile. "Rocking the boat" is more likely than not to make things worse.

ec109685 3y ago

This wasn’t very impressive: https://www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-george-hotz-resigns-from-twitter-4-weeks-into-his-internship https://www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-george-hotz-resigns-from-t... Spent two weeks trying to find someone to build a faceted search UI and then quit.

nl 3y ago
I think deciding to get away from the Musk/Twitter debacle as soon as you realize how bad it is isn't necessarily a bad thing..
- bboygravity 3y ago
  How is it a debacle and how is it bad?
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - threeseed 3y ago
    Because Twitter is trending towards bankruptcy. a) It is valued at about a 1/4 of what it was purchased at. b) Twitter Blue has generated an irrelevant amount of revenue and churn is increasing [1]. c) Roadmap looks poor. Video is a terrible direction where only Google, Amazon, TikTok etc have been able to make the numbers work and that's because it is subsidised through other revenue sources. Payments is DOA given Twitter's inability to comply with existing regulations let alone how difficult KYC/AML is to manage. d) Regulatory and legal risk increases by the day. Lawsuits continue to pile up and EU/FTC are hovering around as Twitter is not in compliance with previous agreements. e) Brand safety continues to be a huge challenge that isn't solvable without effectively going back to what Twitter was previously. f) BlueSky and Instagram are both releasing competitor apps to the broader public in the coming months. The market simply won't sustain this many text-based social media apps. [1] https://github.com/travisbrown/blue https://github.com/travisbrown/blue
    - 3y ago