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The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programming (David Kushner)
- koepked 17y agoJust wanted to say a huge thanks for posting this. As I kid I looked up to these guys for making badass games, without a lot of thought into what that actually entailed at the time. I haven't though much about Id since then, but now I can look up to those guys again for their innovation, and their ability to leverage the shit out of what was available to them. Awesome post!
- wallflower 17y ago"Initializing Doom Operating System" Good memories. Bonding with my college roommate who with I had nothing in common with, other than a crazy interest in computers.
- skwiddor 17y agoBell Labs, that darn name gets everywhere, I wonder what happened to that place?
- skwiddor 17y agoThe beams have crossed since http://rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html http://rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2009/03/04/0-9doom/ http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2009/03/04/0-9doom/
- swivelmaster 17y agoRead Masters of Doom. One of my favorite books. http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0375505245 http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...
- ecaron 17y agoNothing speaks better of Carmack's genius than his magic number: http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9 http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9
- llopis 17y agoJohn is a genius. No doubt about it. But he didn't come up with it, he just recognized it as a useful optimization: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/ http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/