| Kids this days (shakes fist) tl;dr there's a non-unsubstantial # of people who learn a lot from geohot. I'd say about 3% of people here will be confused if you thought of him as less than a top technical expert across many comp sci fields. And he did the geohot thing recently, way tl;dr: acted like there was a scandal being covered up by AMD around drivers that was causing them to "lose" to nVidia. He then framed AMD not engaging with him on this topic as further covering-up and choosing to lose. So if you're of a certain set of experiences, you see an anodyne quote from the CEO that would have been utterly unsurprising dating back to when ATI was still a company, and you'd read it as the CEO breezily admitting in public that geohot was right about how there was malfeasance, followed by a cover up, implying extreme dereliction of duty, because she either helped or didn't realize till now. I'd argue this is partially due to stonk-ification of discussions, there was a vague, yet often communicated, sense there was something illegal happening. Idea was it was financial dereliction of duty to shareholders. |