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Its very different living in the late 80s to early 90s coming up with cool ideas that push affordable hardware to their limits just like John Carmack did with games like Keen, W…
by masfoobar · Sep 15, 2026
My brother was something of a prodigy. Whatever it is that people like Carmack have, he had it too (and Carmack was one of his personal heros). I would say with my brother it wa…
by jasonwatkinspdx · Sep 14, 2026
No, you see some high profile Gen X-ers like Torvalds, Carmack etc. bend to corporate and investor pressure. But the majority isn't. In the same manner, the math people who were…
by 1299348 · Sep 14, 2026
Carmack hasn't produced anything genuinely noteworthy after leaving id software, if we are being frank. His work at Armadillo aerospace was more akin to hobby, not really leadin…
by DiskoHexyl · Sep 14, 2026
All commercial APIs have this moat, which is why other than Carmack famously advocating for OpenGL, the large majority of other devs never cared, they implement an API agnostic…
by pjmlp · Sep 14, 2026
> It's impressive that you didn't reach for Claude Code first :) I should have. All I have right now is a free Cursor account and Github Copilot. I've got to start spending mone…
by Animats · Sep 14, 2026
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Carmack is a surname derived from the Irish given name "Cormac". Notable people with the surname include:Adrian Carmack, game artist, cofounder of id Software Chris Carmack, American actor Edward W. Carmack (1858–1908), American politician George Carmack (1860–1922), American discoverer of gold in the Klondike region Howard Carmack, Internet spammer John Carmack, American game programmer, co-founder of id Software Justin Carmack (1981–2000), American child actor Kate Carmack (1862–1920), First Nation woman Kona Carmack, American model Douglas Carmack American Entrepreneur Read more on Wikipedia