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

Post by makapuf » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

balfirevic wrote: post #147

jillesvangurp wrote: post #115

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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…

> He works 10-12 hours a day, 60 hours a week, 6 days a week > Work life balance and taking care of his family is just part of that deal as well. I don't judge anyone for how they like to spend their time (and certainly admire Carmack), but what work/life balance? There isn't much except work there.

Post by boppo1 » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:46 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #135

zmmmmm wrote: post #11

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 balfirevic » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:51 PM UTC

jessermeyer wrote: post #166

balfirevic wrote: post #147

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> He works 10-12 hours a day, 60 hours a week, 6 days a week > Work life balance and taking care of his family is just part of that deal as well. I don't judge anyone for how they like to spend their time (and certainly admire Carmack), but what work/life balance? There isn't much except work there.

Work/life balance applies to people who would ordinarily not do their work if they did not have to.

Post by jhauris » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:06 PM UTC

jillesvangurp wrote: post #54

baby wrote: post #18

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…

I listened to the first two hours on a train yesterday. I'll likely finish it later. The discussion about tools and languages was particularly interesting. You might expect John Carmack to be pretty old school and dogmatic on using e.g. C and instead it seems he has a very broad taste and experience with different languages and tools. Just a very pragmatic person that switches between doing C, python, Go and other la…

Post by ramraj07 » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

jack_pp wrote: post #45

baby wrote: post #18

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…

> 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.