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Relevant to the story earlier today, John Carmack has three jobs and two children. He tweets regularly, speaks at cons, and occasionally blogs on altdev. He a
by throwit1979 13y ago
Relevant to the story earlier today, John Carmack has three jobs and two children. He tweets regularly, speaks at cons, and occasionally blogs on altdev. He also reportedly lifts weights regularly.
It's not impossible.
- mhartl 13y agoTo be fair, John Carmack is probably a vampire.
- x0x0 13y agoyour comparison is stupid 1 - he's a multimillionaire. He can afford to offload lots of cooking (restaurants), cleaning (cleaners), childcare (nannies), loss of income (stay at home partner), shorten his commute (purchase a house close to work, put a gym in the basement) 2 - even with all of the above, I still bet his wife does a big chunk of the household maintenance and childcare
- brymaster 13y ago> your comparison is stupid http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In Comments Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
- mgkimsal 13y agoHe didn't say the OP was stupid, just the comparison. I would say a variation of that, but might actually say 'stupid', depending on how amiable the group/person is, and how well I could inflect my voice to my funny instead of mean.
- brymaster 13y agoEr, I didn't say that he said the OP was stupid either > E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say;
- mgkimsal 13y agoThat's a poor example then. "Calling names" generally refers to attacking the person/people, not ideas/things. I saw nothing uncivil about the 'stupid' post, unless you chose to read it in an iflammatory tone of voice.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoLol. He was right. The comparison was idiotic.
- derefr 13y agoPerhaps, then, you should rather just say that "when you have children, each additional hobby you want to indulge in will cost roughly $1mm/yr in opportunity costs. In order to Have The Time, you must first figure out how to make that much money."
- lukeholder 13y agoPossible, but you don't know what effect this has on his family.
- michaelgrafl 13y agoI don't follow John Carmack closely, but I remember him telling in an interview that his wife took care of their newborn child for the most part so he could sleep 8 hours a night, which he needed to be able to work. Not saying that his accomplishments aren't impressive, but being John Carmack probably helps doing the things John Carmack does.
- snowwrestler 13y agoHe is also fully in control of his own destiny, being independently wealthy and running his own company. If he wants to delay the next Quake engine by a couple days so he can speak at a conference, no problem. He can afford it, and it's up to him when his next product comes out. Most people either answer to a boss, or are not rich enough to purposefully pass up on new business. So it's not impossible, but to do it well takes a level of means that most people don't have.