John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

Post by snowpiercer » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 6:55 PM UTC

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> he has insane hours and has never burnt out I think there's two major things you need in order to do that. Work on what you love/want and have no/little need for socializing.

I think the point he made was rather the opposite. He works 10-12 hours a day, 60 hours a week, 6 days a week. He needs seven to eight hours of sleep, like a normal person. He specifically mentioned that he never was much into doing all-nighters and that he experimented with working different times of the day. So he'd start in the afternoon and then continue until deep in the night when he was younger whereas having…

Post by russellbeattie » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 7:02 PM UTC

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Such a joy to listen to Carmack talk about just about anything. Not sure if it's an age thing but there is a particular feeling common to contemporaries of that era, growing up in our formative years as computers grew from their humble beginnings to the incredible machines we have now. At that time, each new improvement brought astounding differences in capability. In the space of 10 years we went from 8k to 64k of m…

Era aside, Carmack is a special guy, he can talk articulately and gently for hours. He did a talk few years ago (quakecon ? .. I forgot), basically a 3h long monologue about thinking while coding, there was only a single 5min pause to sip some water, incredible.

Post by baby » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 7:19 PM UTC

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I've been trying to listen to the whole thing (it's 5 hours!), and there are some really interesting moments. Albeit, a bit too much talk on old video games that aren't from my generation, but I'm sure this will be interesting to some people to. What I found interesting: * he has insane hours and has never burnt out. He says that if you want to achieve big things in your life, you need to work a lot. He also says tha…

>Agree with him, VSCode is THE IDE. Lol, he said Visual Studio is THE IDE, not VSCode. Compared with VS, VSCode is a toy.

Post by baby » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 7:24 PM UTC

ramraj07 wrote: post #179

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> he has insane hours and has never burnt out I think there's two major things you need in order to do that. Work on what you love/want and have no/little need for socializing.

Many if not most productive academics have such insane schedules. They’re not necessarily asocial. I think the important distinction is in what I’d call “bullshit socializing.” A lot of what regular people do in the name of socializing is probably not helping them in any way. Academics get trained to not need this to relax necessarily. I did my PhD in a lab that demanded it: we were expected to put 6 days, 12 hours a…

Post by matwood » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 7:32 PM UTC

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Did he define 'work' during the podcast? Since he also mentions reading CS books, perhaps he isn't defining work as literally typing at the computer, but instead always improving. Think of what people could do if they took part of the 3 hours of TV watched per day and instead read a book. He's also a high level grappler (nerd worlds collide if I ever had a chance to roll with Carmack :) ), which is not an easy feat.

He does talk about always being able to work on something interesting. Working on a different aspects of a project to keep motivated. And that definitely includes research.