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My problem with this isn't even that it's a bunch of strung together ideas without a clear narrative or conclusion; enough practice at this combined with actual
by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
My problem with this isn't even that it's a bunch of strung together ideas without a clear narrative or conclusion; enough practice at this combined with actual deep field knowledge results in works like Godel, Escher, Bach.
My problem is that GHotz is a shitty writer, has puddle deep knowledge of anything that isn't iPhone firmware, and watching him play at being a freelance tech journo and produce this kind of hollow pseudo-philosophy that is meant to sound epiphanal but comes across as deeply naïve to anyone with any actual experience in these topics.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoI have a morbid fondness for the fella, because he reminds me of how I sounded a few years back when I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out where all this stuff was going to go, while also being too drunk and too lonely to get any serious research done. I don't think I'd enjoy meeting him in person much, though. I get annoyed by loud personalities like that.
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- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoI was a huge fan of him in the 2010s when he was fighting the good fight for right to repair / sideload / do whatever. He was a bit of an idol while I spent my own time hacking Xbox hard drives and building tooling to write xfat headers and such. It just seems he hasn't grown a jot since then. I've been guilty of writing stuff like this even in recent years, but I've grown enough to check myself and hold a higher bar for the quality of my writing. Assuming he did read this back to himself, the fact that he saw it as publishable is a bit sad.
- baby 3y agoI find him very entertaining to listen to, and I often end up agreeing with him, but he’s definitely not the most “coherent” individual out there (like jobs/woz/carmack/pg/etc.) At the same time, he’s out there talking and writing, I’m sure if he continues he’ll get good. Nobody’s born a good writer and you only become one by writing a lot.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoI don't wish him any ill and hope the same... But it's been over a decade since I started following him and if there is a trajectory to maturity and quality in his writing, I haven't been able to track it. And that's putting aside his recent Twitter drama ...
- greatpostman 3y agoAsk yourself why you’re so repulsed by him, it’s probably not due to his writing skill
- isodnhionio 3y agoI would guess it's that GHotz is a shitty writer, has puddle deep knowledge of anything that isn't iPhone firmware, and plays at being a freelance tech journo and produces this kind of hollow pseudo-philosophy that is meant to sound epiphanal but comes across as deeply naïve to anyone with any actual experience in these topics.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoI called his writing shitty. I like George and have used a lot the tools he's written over the years. I've made similar tools myself. Are you so offended that I have a single critical opinion of him? Because that's a reflection of you, not I.
- fxtentacle 3y agoI believe you're being unnecessarily mean here. He managed to write enough of a low level GPU driver to compile and execute neural network kernels. Calling that "puddle deep knowledge" is pretty dismissive considering that CUDA is Nvidia's most profitable moat.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoThe implication was that his technical knowledge is very good and his writing is not, but you missed that while you were getting angry.
- fisf 3y agoThat's not really what "puddle deep knowledge of anything that isn't iPhone firmware" implies.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoAgain you are free to read it how you wish, biases and all.