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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by jemfinch on Friday July 22, 2011 @06:18PM (#2795368)
I wish I could have ignored you saying that John Carmack is not a real hacker, but I couldn't.

Carmack has consistently pushed forward multiple industries on multiple fronts, and remains to this day a far better programmer than any I've ever worked with. He revolutionized computer gaming while living the life just because he loves it. He's not famous because he has Ferraris; his Ferraris are famous because they're his.

He doesn't need anyone to set him up with an annuity--maybe because his love was more mainstream than theirs, or maybe because his skill was far greater than theirs--but that in no way diminishes what he has accomplished or his motivations for accomplishing it.

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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by InclinedPlane on Friday July 22, 2011 @06:34PM (#2795421)
These days he splits his non-Ferrari-driving-time between hacking on next gen. cross-platform game engines and hacking on rockets (at Armadillo aerospace). He may be a successful hacker, but he's most definitely a hacker right down to the core.
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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress by pushingbits on Saturday July 23, 2011 @04:55AM (#2796532)
Started following him on twitter recently (http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack).

Definitely not coasting.

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