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Tell that to John Carmack, who apparently is quite fine with tainting his legacy and wasting his last few good work years working for Facebook of all companies.

by mtgx 6y ago

Tell that to John Carmack, who apparently is quite fine with tainting his legacy and wasting his last few good work years working for Facebook of all companies. And to top it all off, they're going to ruin Oculus, too (where Carmack is working), going by the latest moves in that division.

dijit 6y ago
It would be very hard to “taint the legacy” of a person like Carmack. He will be excellent no matter where he is because he is given essentially free reign to work on what he enjoys the most. And if that changes it will be unlikely to be the company that did it, since a person in his position would just move to another company and re-acquire free reign.
- ojbyrne 6y ago
  I don’t usually complain about spelling, but you used it twice. It’s “free rein.” https://grammarist.com/spelling/free-rein-free-reign/ https://grammarist.com/spelling/free-rein-free-reign/
  - derekja 6y ago
    Hehe, while you are usually quite correct in that spelling, in Carmack's case "free reign" may actually be more appropriate since he exercises pretty much sovereign power there!
kvz 6y ago
I think he left (for all practical purposes) to focus on AGI now. There were rumors he didn’t like the way fb execs were planning of taking oculus. Think he’s still an advisor or similar, but spends his good time no longer there
- bcrl 6y ago
  Given what I learned when a friend purchased multiple Occulus, I think Fackbook really fucked up. Each unit has to be attached to a different Facebook account, and creating multiple Facebook accounts is forbidden. Bye bye having 2 units at home for when friends come over. They deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under anti-trust laws.
kthxbye123 6y ago
He's only 50. How 'few good work years' do you think he has left?
justapassenger 6y ago
Tuning as in investing billions of dollars to actually make it a feasible product? Sure, they do bad moves there as well, but oculus is where it is purely because Facebook decided to burn billions of dollars there.

by mtgx 6y ago

dijit 6y ago

It would be very hard to “taint the legacy” of a person like Carmack. He will be excellent no matter where he is because he is given essentially free reign to work on what he enjoys the most. And if that changes it will be unlikely to be the company that did it, since a person in his position would just move to another company and re-acquire free reign.

ojbyrne 6y ago
I don’t usually complain about spelling, but you used it twice. It’s “free rein.” https://grammarist.com/spelling/free-rein-free-reign/ https://grammarist.com/spelling/free-rein-free-reign/
- derekja 6y ago
  Hehe, while you are usually quite correct in that spelling, in Carmack's case "free reign" may actually be more appropriate since he exercises pretty much sovereign power there!

kvz 6y ago

I think he left (for all practical purposes) to focus on AGI now. There were rumors he didn’t like the way fb execs were planning of taking oculus. Think he’s still an advisor or similar, but spends his good time no longer there

bcrl 6y ago
Given what I learned when a friend purchased multiple Occulus, I think Fackbook really fucked up. Each unit has to be attached to a different Facebook account, and creating multiple Facebook accounts is forbidden. Bye bye having 2 units at home for when friends come over. They deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under anti-trust laws.

kthxbye123 6y ago

He's only 50. How 'few good work years' do you think he has left?

justapassenger 6y ago

Tuning as in investing billions of dollars to actually make it a feasible product? Sure, they do bad moves there as well, but oculus is where it is purely because Facebook decided to burn billions of dollars there.