Pretty interesting character, this is a [1] good interview about him and his ideas.
Guy is awesome.
Creator of "live hack" youtube videos he later admitted were scripted and fake.
Founder of ridiculous self driving car company that never had a chance of going anywhere.
He's a charlatan.
IIRC, he + the CEO raised a bunch of money to work on his own self-driving car designs, which culminated in a prototype that wasn't as feature-rich as some of the better capitalized players, which had been demoed a few years back in limited capacity over the last few years. He just got kicked out, as reported in TC on the 18th of last month though, so maybe he's making his own new thing.
Search on YT for comma.ai and you'll see some good content.
[ edit: past tense, was Head of Research for. ]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
Become a lot more mature in the last few years, smart guy.
Edit: not a must watch individual, but see what he is up to every so often.
So I opened somewhere around this moment: https://youtu.be/7Hlb8YX2-W8?t=17039
And, first, he copy-pastes some code, and then spends about a minute figuring if he got tabs converted to spaces, including googling a vim command.
Then he proceeds to make a loop over some collection next to the loop over an adjacent collection. And he makes that stupid mistake of renaming a variable of the loop, but no renaming in the body.
Man, if that's how professional vim users work, this piece of video will be the only proof I will ever need to prevent zealots from even wasting IDE users time to try vim.
I'm a zealot, and it's a waste of my time to try and convince someone to use vim. If someone is trying to sell you on using vim, remind them of the code they should be writing instead of flapping their lips at you. The "you gotta use vim!" folks are usually half-adept hacks. They don't quite understand it as fully as they feel they should, so instead they try to get good vibes by convincing you to make the same decisions they did.
disclaimer: 20-year vi/vim user - could care less whether anyone else uses it or not.
Also, George Hotz is a famous hacker, maybe not Carmack or Linus, but definitely somewhere on that scale. Even that video shows an interesting work.
Also, I used `zealot` in the sense of advertisement, not normal passion.
I myself use vi modes inside IDE's, and can't be happier.
For some reason, it's reminding me of SOLE (self organized learning environment) classrooms being tried out in the UK. Put a BIG problem on the board. Get a couple kids to sit in front of a SINGLE large screen and work it out. Provide internet access. And the teacher just hangs in the background not teaching, but observing/guiding/keeping things on track. This is taking it to another level with the number of people watching/learning/contributing etc.
I think the video ended before he applied any of it, though..
