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He might be considered by others as "boomer" that hasn't been relevant "since Quake III"
by bluedino 4y ago
He might be considered by others as "boomer" that hasn't been relevant "since Quake III"
- yucky 4y agoHow many people that ignorant actually work there though? Maybe there really is more dead weight than we thought..
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- belfalas 4y agoWhoever those others are…they are irrelevant.
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- Minor49er 4y agoThe man went from making the fastest 3D games ever to grace silicon to literally launching rockets. He's been the fastest nerd alive, and Meta couldn't even give him legs (figuratively and literally [1]) [1] https://youtu.be/ouq5yyzSiAw?t=395 https://youtu.be/ouq5yyzSiAw?t=395
- DonHopkins 4y agoI don't see what you didn't do there.
- yrgulation 4y ago
- nonethewiser 4y agoRespect your elders
- azinman2 4y agoBut that’s not the gen z way. Part of being young is thinking you’d somehow do it all differently in the same circumstances.
- ryandrake 4y agoThat’s an attribute of youth in general. No single generation owns it exclusively.
- azinman2 4y agoWhich is why I said “part of being young.” That said, I don’t remember being so explicitly mad at previous generations when I grew up (as a millennial). “Ok boomer” is a big part of the gen z vocabulary.
- humanizersequel 4y ago"ok boomer" in gen z speak tends to be a jab at millenials, not something directed seriously at the legitimately wisened.
- azinman2 4y agoWhat makes you say that? Certainly tiktok seems to be full of a lot of generational humor/videos, which must explicitly naming boomers and often showing people their age. But maybe I’m too old to understand their explicit gripes.
- DonHopkins 4y agook, whatever. Uuuuuuh, John Carmack is a Gen-X'er... How do you insult them?
- nailer 4y ago
- pushedx 4y agoIf so, then they missed the games that used id Tech 4 and id Tech 5 (almost impossible given the success of Doom 3), and how Carmack continued to invent truly unthinkable performance and fidelity enhancements to real time 3D graphics until the day he left for Occulus. Then at Occulus he translated that engineering talent into a ruthless attack on latency and other issues with VR at the time. He was even working on this before he left. Anyone who has watched one of his QuakeCon Keynotes in the past 20 years knows just how much raw talent Carmack has as an engineer. Most of them are on YouTube, you should check them out.
- bcrosby95 4y agoI think this also sums up his weakness though in a megacorp like Meta. He's technically brilliant, and that can go a very long way. But in a large corporation, technical brilliance is secondary to excellence in leadership. I remember reading an article in the '00s or '90s about how Id worked, and it just seemed not very scalable beyond Carmack. And while he his companies have had great success, other '90s era peers - Valve and Epic - are on a whole other level today. Technical brilliance brought his company far, but it can't bring you to those heights.
- spoils19 4y agoI wonder how many people don't value his opinion because (they assume) Carmack can't solve LeetCode as well as they can.
- DonHopkins 4y agoAre you sure you don't mean a "Gen-X'er" that hasn't been relevant since he stole Apple ][s with thermite and vasoline? ;)