John Carmack: Doom, Quake, Programming, Games – Lex Fridman Podcast [video] (youtube.com)

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jamier1978 3y ago ↗

There isn't many people who could hold my attention for 5 hours but John is one who can. Speaks so well about his craft.

ChrisArchitect 3y ago ↗

[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347172

jiripospisil 3y ago ↗

I posted this more than 2 hours earlier.

FascistDonut 3y ago ↗

And yet all the discussion is on the other thread, so it makes sent to redirect people coming here.

solomatov 3y ago ↗

Probably the best interview on this channel. Highly recommend despite length.

throwntoday 3y ago ↗

The Jim Keller interviews are great too!

timonoko 3y ago ↗

Smooth Screen Scrolling was indeed the greatest computing problem of previous millennium. But CarMack totally forgot to mention that scrolling must be in sync with display refresh rate. Many American Made games were glitchy because builtin 60 Hz refresh rate.