Mmm

>Brilliant programmer
Not really. Above average, but nothing special.

t. professional fizzbuzzer

t. gamer

This tbqh. Only slightly above average. Seems like he'd be terrible to work with too.

Way too expensive

Above average Programming skills
... and Above average Hunchback

Why is he not brilliant?

Yeah, what a total loser. He will never accomplish anything.

>innovative programmer who single-habdedly moved games from 2d to full accelerated 3d
>virginfags criticize his posture
Tell me about the amazing programs you have made with your perfect posture

What did he do to constitute brilliance?
>single-habdedly moved games from 2d to full accelerated 3d
What? Computers could render 3 dimensional objects long before Carmack even finished high school.

Virtual texturing
Depth fail
Fast inverse sqrt

Wonder what happened to the guys from SGI and other hardware groups he was working with at the time. No doubt they were helping him along once 3D accelerators became the norm.

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Nothing particularly complex or special.

Virtual texturing is not easy to get right

Maybe to games programmers. But they're the lowest of programmers.

Why do you think that?

If they were good they'd have done something more engaging.

Give an example

more like John Bicyclemack

You sound like a fucking sperg even for Jow Forums standards. Kill yourself.

An example of what? A more engaging project than making toys?

It seems like you think game programmers are somehow worse because you dismiss their work as toys. That is completely retarded. Working on something more noble does not make you a better programmer. It's all datastructures and algorithms at some point.

How are computer games not toys? It's not being dismissive, it's just calling it as it is.

Toys which can have a high degree of programming skill behind them.

You being dismissive of the programming feats to get those games to work.

Than what?

I'm just calling them as they are, unimpressive.

Name three items of software you're impressed by.

Fast inverse sqrt wasn't coded by carmack
go kill yourself fucking nodev

CRUD data-table.
Making a gui.
Transfering data via TCP.
Making a trainable algorithm.

>It seems like you think game programmers are somehow worse because you dismiss their work as toys.
No, i hate (most) game programmers in 2018 because they stopped giving a shit about optimization and performance

look at every AAA game ever, it's like their mantra is "fuck optimization just tell players to strap 4 GTX 1080s"

they still are better than webdevs though, fuck webdevs.

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You'll end up with a clean room and a very organized porn collection, but no code.

Watson at the time.
GCC for the time
dashDB.

If he sits any higher his legs will be going through the desk.

Okay, /dpt/.

fuck off mate

easy to say this as a youngling with new technology and fast internet. back then the chances of even finding a good book on c to use and to understand it never mind creating innovative algorithms for rendering 3d graphics on slow ibm compatibles.. he was pretty good..

then disconnect the internet

You'll have the world's best, cleanest cross-platform Makefile and all your docs carefully edited to use just the right layout and oxford commas.

I like your style

Sounds like you're speaking from experience desu