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Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by coldtea on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:07AM (#48552111)
Parent knows. He makes an analogy, not an absolute equivalence.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by bravetraveler on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:20AM (#48552185)
They know, criticizing without equivocating.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by alfiedotwtf on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:34AM (#48552302)
This thread is why he is not on Twitter
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by bravetraveler on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:34AM (#48552311)
Fascinating, I'm not there for other reasons. So, about that costly Tea...
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by herodoturtle on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:23AM (#48553091)
And I'm here wondering if there's a limit to HN's nested replies.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by bravetraveler on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:25AM (#48553099)
I'll continue to do my part as time allows, also curious. Anyway, if enough flag the top [like I did], it'll collapse.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by kmstout on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:40AM (#48554326)
Every so often, ask others just how far their ideas go.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by bravetraveler on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:54AM (#48554473)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Observe, etc.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by Barbing on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:25AM (#48555826)
You found a comment to flag in this thread? Didn’t catch rulebreaking myself.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by bravetraveler on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:28AM (#48555885)
Sure, I didn't restrict to rule breaking. As I already said, it serves the function of compressing the conversation others complained about.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by Barbing on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:33AM (#48555947)
Downvotes may offer that function too, I think.

Thought the flag was “hey this guy can’t call me a doodoohead with no ‘J/K’ at the end!”, rule break like rudeness or spam or slop

Guess I better read the rules

Edit: IDK why I can’t always downvote. Sometimes see it on a comment’s permalink page. Guessing some karma factors at play (lifetime upvotes received per user, can’t downvote more senior users maybe)

Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by bravetraveler on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:34AM (#48555964)
> Downvotes may offer that function too, I think.

Not quite as effectively, but sure. De-ranked consumption of vertical space instead of complete compression. Anyway, many tools one may choose. Not mutually exclusive or expensive.

> Guess I better read the rules

I'm sure someone will link them for us [again, vertical space!]. You're fine, however. Not super familiar with the heuristics, but I do know... downvoting gets blocked once you reply, do it first.

Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by f17428d27584 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:28AM (#48556793)
Right, but the analogy is very clearly about someone trying to hide / protect their identity, which doesn’t apply in this case.

Perhaps it was trying to stretch it to “unknown figure”, saying this programmer is mysterious, even though it was not by choice but circumstance: fame has eluded him. (Not implying it’s desired).

But on that reading, I would still say the metaphor fails: it’s not effective at conveying this meaning and reads more like an unnecessary Satoshi name drop.

Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard by sph on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:53AM (#48557228)
> unnecessary Satoshi name drop

"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain". I apologise.