Comment by markus_zhang
16 days ago
Impressive. JC is always one of the engineers I look up to and read up to when depressed.
John Carmack, David Cutler, Tom West, Cameron Zwarich, etc. There are about maybe 50 of them.
16 days ago
Impressive. JC is always one of the engineers I look up to and read up to when depressed.
John Carmack, David Cutler, Tom West, Cameron Zwarich, etc. There are about maybe 50 of them.
Please name them all. Would love to read and watch their content. I usually come across a decade later and like, whaaat.. how did i miss this. Man i could have had better time watching them instead of doom scrolling.
Carmack and Jim Keller for me. Hardware engineering for the latter!
HW is kinda too magical for me at this age :)
Where are the good war stories on Keller?
Computer History Museum interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh8nhK7WS80
Worked on DEC Alpha, AMD K7 & K8, Broadcom, P.A. Semi, was in turn purchased by Apple. Jim spent four years at Apple before first returning to AMD, then on to Tesla, Intel and finally Tenstorrent.
Keller keynoting TSMC's 2022 Open Innovation Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32CRYenTcdw
Tim Sweeney of Epic is up there for me too.
I’d really love to hear his story from the beginning. I believe his first published game was a Blue Disk one, ZZT, in 1991, and he went forward to write the Unreal engine which was released in 1998. People like Tim and John really could bag a huge amount of knowledge in half a decade.
Zachary's Showstopper book is a great account of Dave Cutler and WinNT.