Comment by dylan604

> "Where is todays Jon Carmack?" - he was famous for squeezing everything out of the hardware,

Spinning that another way, there's Bill Gates (not sure of the authenticity though) saying something along the lines of why would he pay to spend that kind of time when CPUs/RAM/HDDs are getting faster/cheaper; users can just upgrade. If we determine which method is more successful based on their worth...