Hotz has always come across as very arrogant to me. Claims everyone else is doing things the wrong way, claims he can do it himself in 24h, then never delivers on his words.
everything about it is just a supreme waste of time and energy. including my own.
everyone is a genius at something and the easiest way to negate any positives that you could possibly provide is to be an arrogant prick, and geohot is exactly that.
This level of cynicism and irony, especially on hackernews, is hard to top.
He's very talented, I don't want people to think he's a scam artist.
Lately it seems like there are so many accusations of over-promising, but no one explains why this is harmful. Misleading investors? Doesn’t HN hate big money anyway?
In so many cases it seems like someone promises 5x and delivers 3x… I’ll take it, over 0. Then I’ll remember and apply an adjustment factor to future promises.
In some of these comparative rankings a device that runs open source software and cheap hardware beats most of these driver assist systems that companies put in their car. All of those system probably had 10-100x more developer time put into them and work on fewer cars.
Never?
Both in the case of HN and with Hotz, I'm 50/50 on whether this is even a bug. It's hard to do anything interesting if you're not both highly opinionated and highly critical about the current way of doing things.
That said, I think some of us are more self-aware of this mentality than others. In my case I know that self-awareness has emerged slowly from being wrong a lot, which I suppose isn't the case with someone as successful as Hotz. Maybe he's never needed to self-reflect in the same way some of us have, or need to. I know I was a lot like him when I was younger anyway.
1: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/digital-world-real-w...
One can have confidence and still be humble enough to be open to being wrong.
One can be idealistic without being cynical.
And you, and the people around you, will be happier and more effective because of it.
Some lessons I wish I had learned earlier in my career.
how ironic
Occasionally, but I think HN comments are usually more cynical than arrogant. More often, it's pointing out flaws without saying, "I could do better."
I do think that we, as a community, would be better off if we approached those flaws with more open-ended curiosity rather than mere dismissal.