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Re:Quake's lightning gun bug explained by Eisenstein on Thursday June 15, 2023 @05:42PM (#36346934)
I found this looking through Carmack's .plan files. Perhaps you will appreciate it.

Snippet:

I want bug free software. I also want software that runs at infinite speed, takes no bandwidth, is flexible enough to do anything, and was finished yesterday.

Every day I make decisions to let something stand and move on, rather than continuing until it is "perfect". Often, I really WANT to keep working on it, but other things have risen to the top of the priority que, and demand my attention.

* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-ar...

Re:Quake's lightning gun bug explained by Agentlien on Thursday June 15, 2023 @11:47PM (#36350921)
I feel the same way, all the time. The more time I spend improving and tweaking a solution, the longer the list of remaining improvements I wish I could do.

That's why pieces I publish about my work usually contain a fairly long section about potential further improvements.