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That 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.
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What 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


The 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.




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