John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by cbsks on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:18PM (#23225341)

If OpenBSD knows what's good for them they will encourage him to read and contribute as much as possible!

What I'd give for John Carmack to clean up my code...

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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by teknopurge on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:15PM (#23227111)

OpenBSD doesn't need their code cleaned-up. Theo is the Liam Gallagher of development mangers.

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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by yfiapo on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:45PM (#23227451)

Ah, but there is so much value in fresh eyes. Miod, who has been involved with OpenBSD development for 20 years and has surely seen those function names a thousand times, provided the historical reason (they thought they might need to allocate memory) but agreed they never ended up using that.

The fresh eyes don't have the history and are thus able to point things out that the older eyes inherently accept.

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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by pnako on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:06PM (#23229426)

"He's the angriest man you'll ever meet. He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup." (Noel Gallagher, about his brother)

I found the quote relevant ("a man with a fork")

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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by teknopurge on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:23PM (#23238241)

This is accurate. You may end up getting stabbed with that fork however...

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