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God damn, that is such an insult to the brilliance and uniqueness of a single individual such as Carmack. > That's all that separates Carmack from swaths, or m
by AndrewUnmuted 5y ago
God damn, that is such an insult to the brilliance and uniqueness of a single individual such as Carmack.
> That's all that separates Carmack from swaths, or multitudes of programmers on HN.
I am astounded by HN's hatred for the extraordinary every day I remain on this putrid hellhole of a site.
- jason0597 5y agoHatred? It's just a fact. If you were smart enough, born in the right time period when computers were taking off, born in the right country that wasn't torn by war and poverty, and also born in a reasonably wealthy family to afford computers, only then did you become successful in tech. Notice how all of those variables are outside the individual's control. I never chose to be born in the shithole that is Greece that was ravaged by the debt crisis, yet it affected me as an individual significantly. Sure I may have had the ability to fight my way through, but I know many who didn't. Furthermore, Bill Gates and Bill Joy never chose to be born into the year they were born just as computers were taking off, they just did. And they used their smarts to make billions. The sad truth still remains that the strongest predictor of an individual's success is their economic and family background. No one has proven otherwise.