He did live coding for the demos where for any session of similar complexity the speakers just copy-paste pre-written snippets. It shows both his genius as well as the capabilities of Mathematica.
At one point, his code wasn't doing what he thought it should. His reaction was that of a pure engineer, with no trace of masking or downplaying the issue.
He was asked the same usual questions around open-sourcing, et al. His answer was simple and sensible: That what they are doing cannot be done without a commercial setting. He said that he would rather do a better job for the customers than spend time on anything else.
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> for high-profile, high-production-value events, I have a little box that spoofs EDID strings to force my computer to send a specific signal, regardless of what the projector seems to be asking it for.
1) Presenter computer plugged into some sort of video capture hub, connected to computer A with video capture card that would composite camera video with slides. 2) Separate computer B running remote desktop into that computer to broadcast to the web. 3) Another computer C, also with remote desktop, connected to the projectors.
[0] https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemconstellation
He's definitely the kind of person that wouldn't dare scream at someone in real life, but will gladly tell you how much of a PoS you are in the middle of a meeting with a dozen other people.
My fellow employees (except for the hard core brown-nosers) are the most kind and intelligent people I've had the pleasure of working with. They are the true geniuses being this release. SW is the tyrant that the rest of the company is trying to fight.
Also, one thing that I found a bit troubling is that the employees generally sound terrified, but I've had bosses who were great AND terrifying at the same time, so I have given Wolfram the benefit of the doubt.
> He's definitely the kind of person that wouldn't dare scream at someone in real life.
What do you mean exactly here, given that in the paragraph above you said he screamed at an employee so hard she went into labor?
> He is utterly convinced that everyone around him is an idiot, and that one day the world will realize how wrong they were about his ideology and dedicate museums to his honor, etc.
Is that something that he has said, or is it hyperbole?
He might still have that adolescent ego, and in his blog posts he still comes across as self-obsessed; but in his livestreams he comes across as a decent human.
[1]: https://www.stephenwolfram.com/livestreams/