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> Geohot is famous for not being as smart as he makes out That someone isn't as intelligent as they think they are doesn't place an upper bound on their intell
by petesergeant 6mo ago
> Geohot is famous for not being as smart as he makes out
That someone isn't as intelligent as they think they are doesn't place an upper bound on their intelligence.
- danpalmer 6mo agoThat someone thinks they can personally "fix search" in a few months at a multi-billion dollar social network that just fired half its engineering staff, however, does.
- diogocp 6mo agoWhat if someone thinks they can personally fix the loading time of a multi-billion dollar game, while having no access to its source code? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
- danpalmer 6mo agoThe difference there being that they did. The GTA fix shows humility, literally the first sentence of the "recon" section is "First I wanted to check if someone had already solved this problem". Geohot wasn't interested in if anyone had tried and failed to "solve search", or why it might be a difficult problem. He assumed that Twitter were a bunch of idiots. The whole approach of the GTA fix author is curious and humble. Very low ego.