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A comment on John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing.

Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by hayksaakian on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @11:25PM (#5107290)
Its so cool that someone as high up in the games industry as carmack actually knows his technical shit.
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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by damian2000 on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @11:38PM (#5107374)
He might be high up now, but he started off as a programmer. He co-founded id software and (along with others) developed Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software
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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by enneff on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @11:43PM (#5107394)
He still is a programmer. He's the lead programmer at id and writes code for Armadillo Aerospace.
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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by damian2000 on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:26AM (#5107931)
yeah, he can probably do whatever he wants, the fact he's still programming means he obviously enjoys it.
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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by boyter on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @11:44PM (#5107405)
Not only that but I believe he is still "in the trenches" and cuts industry leading code to this day.
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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by ibrahima on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:11AM (#5107850)
If you follow him on Twitter, he posts almost exclusively highly technical content.
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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by hayksaakian on Thursday January 24, 2013 @03:15AM (#5108324)
I was aware of this, but Mark Z. Also started in the programming, today he's mister CEO, too important for code.
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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by james4k on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:03AM (#5107796)
He's known for knowing his shit. :)
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Re:John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing by damian2000 on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:33AM (#5107971)
another example ...

"I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?"

http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fas...

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