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Carmack is constantly challenging himself. A trait common among masters. Louis CK is so good at comedy because he throws away all his material each year. Carmac
by staunch 12y ago
Carmack is constantly challenging himself. A trait common among masters. Louis CK is so good at comedy because he throws away all his material each year. Carmack used to practically write a new game engine every year. Now he's doing even more challenging work than that.
- agmcleod 12y agoMan i'd love to do that. Explore game dev with different languages. Try and code a fresh web game engine purely using webgl. Naturally i get busy with other things :)
- evincarofautumn 12y agoIf what you do over and over again is throw away your work with the goal of writing a better thing, then you can get really good at writing new things. It’s a clever way to think about practice.
- sz4kerto 12y agoArthur Whitney, author of A+,k and kdb/q always starts from scratch when he develops a new version of his db. From scratch means throwing away even the lowest-level routines like basic string operations and low-level file i/o.
- swah 12y agoAnd the source code is bizarre but... works for him.
- astrodust 12y agoHe's certainly not afraid to leave his comfort zone and try something completely tangental, like making rockets or working with VR hardware. He's always been humble, engaging, friendly, and most of all, passionate about what he does without becoming fanatical about it.