Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else feel stupid reading Hacker News?
by smt88 on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:39AM
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I'd argue that a lot of his success was directly related to not knowing anything about SQL/RDBMS because they were not required by his specialty.
Instead of spending time learning SQL, which he'd never use while creating a game, he only learned and practiced the skills he used for games. It's incidental that a lot of those skills are fairly universal and low-level, which gives us the false impression that Carmack is a generalist.
Instead of spending time learning SQL, which he'd never use while creating a game, he only learned and practiced the skills he used for games. It's incidental that a lot of those skills are fairly universal and low-level, which gives us the false impression that Carmack is a generalist.