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Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by pitched »

ntstatusquo wrote: post #106
bsoles wrote: post #86

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As much as I like to watch Casey, Prime, etc. on YouTube, they are not going to teach anybody anything. They are just entertainment for software people with a certain viewpoint.

My one data point is that Casey’s handmade hero series, and his immediate mode gui video from way back in 2005, are what introduced me and some friends to an entirely new way to build graphical user interfaces, and I do feel a great appreciation for that. Guys like Ryan Fleury (of RadDbg) and Vjekoslav Krajacic of Filepilot similarly credit Casey with their “radicalization” :) To your point though, it was less about…

I want more things like that old hand made hero to exist in the world, but, from an interview with Casey himself, it doesn’t pay well enough to justify. Someone with the chops to put that together is in a position to be doing something much better incentivized.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by chamomeal »

bob1029 wrote: post #78
Almondsetat wrote: post #66

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Feel free to point to anyone doing these deep dives that specifically tackle the lost knowledge of the early decades of computer science and the ideas that have not yet come to fruition despite being extremely old

> Feel free to point to anyone doing these deep dives Most of this kind of content comes off as relevant/topical but mindless entertainment. This is not a "deep dive" of anything that I could practically apply in my daily work. It feels good to think this content might add value and then to subsequently consume it, but it's effectively junk food. I used to spend a lot of time watching crap like lex and primagen befor…

agree regarding primagen but I don’t think that’s a good comparison at all

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by pitched »

my-next-account wrote: post #93
Almondsetat wrote: post #66

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Feel free to point to anyone doing these deep dives that specifically tackle the lost knowledge of the early decades of computer science and the ideas that have not yet come to fruition despite being extremely old

Me, I do them.

Where do you publish?

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by znpy »

Almondsetat wrote: post #66
layla5alive wrote: post #65

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You think there aren't other people equally or more qualified? I mean Casey may be the most visible person with those qualifications - but lack of visibility doesn't imply lack of competence, plenty of brilliant people work in the background..

Feel free to point to anyone doing these deep dives that specifically tackle the lost knowledge of the early decades of computer science and the ideas that have not yet come to fruition despite being extremely old

Knuth could do them, in theory. The guy was literally there when stuff was happening.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by pitched »

torginus wrote: post #59
andai wrote: post #34

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Maybe go for a long drive? Long walk? Whatever floats your boat. I used to do manual labor and I would work my way through like eight hours of audiobooks per day.

I've noticed after I've switched to audiobooks that my retention is horrible compared to reading. For actual complex topics, it's even worse.

I’ve found this too but I think audiobooks still have a place, they just can’t something you rely on being able to perfectly understand. A second book on the same topic or something in a topic loosely related but interesting. Or fiction to help stay awake on long road trips.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by agumonkey »

bob1029 wrote: post #78
Almondsetat wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feel free to point to anyone doing these deep dives that specifically tackle the lost knowledge of the early decades of computer science and the ideas that have not yet come to fruition despite being extremely old

> Feel free to point to anyone doing these deep dives Most of this kind of content comes off as relevant/topical but mindless entertainment. This is not a "deep dive" of anything that I could practically apply in my daily work. It feels good to think this content might add value and then to subsequently consume it, but it's effectively junk food. I used to spend a lot of time watching crap like lex and primagen befor…

Yeah I was a sense that some people would be more into serious technical explorations and not just distanced review of the past (even though it can bring some knowledge).

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by ahaferburg »

tialaramex wrote: post #103
inigyou wrote: post #91

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Doesn't mean you can't learn a lot from the attempt. Technical craftsmanship and project management skill are two completely separate skills. Definitely don't learn project management from Casey.

Sure, but the biggest reason to direct anybody to these videos is that they should actually make that video game they want to make, not just think about it - and so the fact that Handmade Hero just trails off and doesn't end up producing a finished video game is a problem. The craftsmanship is dubious. I think it's a problem that people assume Casey knows what he's doing when so often he's like "We're doing it live"…

At some point I stopped caring about Handmade Hero because he just never got out of the global illumination rabbit hole. He should have followed that as a side quest, behind a feature flag. Maybe one week for progress on the game, one week for rendering experiments. He didn't seem to make much progress, and it just fizzled out as he ran out of steam. Finishing should have been a bit higher on the priority list. It was just not setting a good example from a project or self management perspective.

Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by bena »

Pannoniae wrote: post #109
bena wrote: post #80

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The last hour is a Q&A. I don't know if that changes your perception of how watchable it is. It's also a little fluffy. It's basically the history of how the book Structured Programming came about, because it's that book that essentially caused Knuth to write an article that contained the quote. A lot of it is fairly interesting but it also highlights a big problem I do have with Muratori. He generalizes from self. H…

"He didn't fully understand or appreciate the quote about premature optimization, so no one did." He ain't wrong though.... most people definitely don't get the jive for sure. Knuth was talking about a massively different kind of optimisation than what we do today yet people keep continuing to parrot the 97% figure uncritically like as it was some gospel. [0] [0] http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=580

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Re: Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

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Post by megagpt3 »

LtdJorge wrote: post #108
bsoles wrote: post #86

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As much as I like to watch Casey, Prime, etc. on YouTube, they are not going to teach anybody anything. They are just entertainment for software people with a certain viewpoint.

You don’t know Computer Enhance then

Do you?
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