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[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days.

Quake was overly ambitious technically. We could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a Doom++ engine, allowing the designers to work with a more stable base instead of rug-pulling everything out from underneath them a couple times. The follow up game could have then brought in full 6DOF environments and characters.

I pushed everyone too hard. I didn’t appreciate how maturing companies need more slack, and that running people at startup intensity constantly will wear them out. Quake was also where I really had to accept my personal limits. I was working pretty much as hard as humanly possible, and I was still slipping past my goal points.

On all of the founders’ shoulders, our original corporate stock arrangement and buy/sell agreement was a mistake, and resulted in bad incentives. We wanted to ensure that all ownership rested in the hands of people working hard on current projects, but the Silicon Valley standard approach of vesting stock would have worked out better.

One real problem that I don’t accept the blame for is that we were insisting that level designers be not just game designers, but also have strong visual design esthetics. They needed to make things that not only played well, but looked awesome, and it got more challenging as the technology provided a richer palette. Romero covered that well, which set our company expectations early on.

We should have figured out how to pair up artists and designers earlier, but there was infighting among the designers, and the ones that could manage the visuals were happy to disparage the ones that couldn’t.

Sorry, Sandy.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

You order a new laptop.

[Dorian Develops @DorianDevelops]

How do you exit vim?

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

@brianchastings This is what happens when you try to learn poker by watching Casino Royale.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

They were a competing fruit company.

[RetiredSphinx @RetiredSphinx]

@JonErlichman @sum_itgupta2 Who the hell is RIM? Lol

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

Every time I see the phrase "soft skills" I think of this.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

Meatball was a real hit with the trick or treaters this Halloween.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

Problem is that all these abandoned products have snowballed into a reputation crisis for Google. I don't see them launching another longterm successful new product or service again. They'll coast and iterate on core offerings until growth stagnates there and the market reacts.

[Avi Greengart @greengart]

Unpopular opinion: Google's willingness to launch products, see if they gain critical mass, and, if not, kill them, isn't a corporate weakness.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

If you told me in middle school that I’d be excited about going to a Backstreet Boys concert 25 years later, I’d have so many questions.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

He is beauty, he is grace, he has a scrunchy face.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

Meatball got neutered today and he is not happy with us.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

Me: I'd like to open this 2GB json file with your IDE.
VSCode: Sir, you need to leave.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

How to Freaking Hire Great Developers https://t.co/Q9QBza8Fr2

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

Popular interview question: how to diagnose a mysterious process that’s taking too much CPU, memory, IO, etc?

The diagram below illustrates helpful tools in a Linux system.

🔹‘vmstat’ - reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, and CPU activity.

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

The genius of John von Neumann @UnHerd https://t.co/SNo4wsX1yl

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create The PC Industry https://t.co/7QB9jIiiE6

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

This channel's pretty awesome...
https://t.co/iZAFzhWxr5

[rodeoblue @rodeoblue]

If you don't know who Jim Keller is, some great videos:
https://t.co/7ZpaYYob8t
https://t.co/QcTk4jrZFs