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Is John Carmack a '10x programmer'?

Carmack didn't exactly create Commander Keen all by himself. John Romero did some programming, and the level editors and other tools like the installer. Adrian Carmack did the art, Tom Hall came up withe gameplay ideas and level designs. Besides, Keen wasn't anything amazing in terms of a game, other than the fact that it was one fo the first popular side-scrollers on the PC.

In the end, Keen was a basic side-scroller. Of which plenty existed over the years. Shareware, hobbyist, and professional game developers were not in short supply.

Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Again, Carmack wasn't the only programmer. Again, Romero wrote the level tools. Dave Taylor also had programming duties. Heck, id even farmed out the sound code! Wouldn't a true 10x developer bang out a sound library in his sleep?

Quake rolls around. This time Carmack has brought in re-inforcements. Mike Abrash for his vast knowledge of graphics coding and optimization, and John Cash for the networking side. Dave Taylor wrote the sound engine and some other things. Zoid ended up taking QuakeWorld.

Around the Quake 2/3 time, Carmack started to come into his own. They brought Brian Hook in help do 3D graphics, but Carmack created a level editor as his 'first win32 program', even though he eventually passed it on to Robert Duffy. Carmack was really doing a lot of things with 3D graphics and hardware at the time.

Let's not forget his side projects like graphics drivers and porting id games to things like the iPhone and SNES.

I'll end this by saying at the very least he had a huge hand in getting PC gaming going in the right direction. I also love his willingness to release the source code to their products. But was he a '10x programmer'? Maybe he was just really good.
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I'm not familiar with how your system works, but aren't these two statements contradictory?

>There is no getting reduced sentences for good behavior

>If he gets 20 years, he has to serve at least 16 by law.

I am assuming that the 4 year difference would be applied in the event of... Good behavior?
To me, this indicates that obesity is a function of something other than self-control and determination.
If you look at the research then habit formation is all about not relying on willpower. Willpower is a limited resource and is easily drained. People do not form long-term behaviours by willpower alone.

Yes, you need some willpower to start doing something new - but it’s all about habit formation after that.

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tl;dr: UEFI rootkits can survive operating system reinstallation and even a hard disk replacement.

That's why he needed a new physical computer.
I would like to know why, in the past ~20yrs, health insurance premium costs have nearly quadrupled (https://www.kff.org/report-section/2018-employer-health-bene...).

I don't understand the push for price lists. Forecasting is hard enough with software, I can't imagine what it's like for medical procedures where every person is different. Hospitals treat patients regardless of ability to pay, and attempt to recoup losses for patients who can't pay. Why shop around on price if it's unpredictable due to the nature of the system, shopping around on quality of care would seem more important to me.
Sorry I'm just checking that this is sarcastic, because why should it matter that peanut butter is from India? Or did I miss a memo about Indian peanut butter?
> I learned how to be a good multiplier: how to help people out, help them grow, unblock procedural bottlenecks in a lasting way...

So, here you perfectly describe a 10x middle manager. Or just a "good" middle manager, because I agree this 10x business is kind of silly.

I will never understand why people take all these soft skills unrelated to programming and say they are more important to a programmer than skill at programming. It's not that these skills are undesirable. It's just that, to continue the sports analogies, it is like saying that it is more important for a basketball player to be fast and be a good team player rather than be skilled at shooting and blocking.

If anything it is the other way around, people with good soft skills and bad technical skills are an absolute menace and plague if they try to get involved in anything technical. They have no idea how much they screw up everything they touch.

If you aren't a programmer, and you're a manager of programmers, then fine. A coach needs a totally different skillset than a player and you can be a fine coach even if you are a mediocre player.
Actually I was subsuming the option of unionizing into the choice of 'stay there and see how many people agree with you before you get fired.'

In my experience at Google it was clear that in Mountain View there was a program of 'managing out of the company' people who created problems. The sorts of problems they sought to minimize were disagreement or discussion that made actionable criticisms of management decisions.

As much as I dislike the actions of James Damore, his case, if it proceeds[1], has the potential to put a lot of this activity on the part of leadership into the public record. I personally think they will figure out what it will cost to buy his silence and make the case go away which won't serve the interests of the current employees.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/07/google-discrimination...
Subscription and bundling works until there are too many Subscription. And we might one day move back to Pay Per View again.
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i've always stored the salt plain text, how else do you store a salt? i need to be able to use it with 0 information about the user other than "they are trying to use this password"
Am I in the minority of folks that enjoy Twitter's algorithmic sorting?

In the classic timeline view, I always felt the urge to check my feed all the time, in case i missed part of the conversation or the like (a la "FOMO.")
The average person does not understand the implications of their actions vis-à-vis IT companies and their personal information.

Moreover, their actions do not affect only themselves, but also all of the people with whom they regularly interact, regardless of whether or not those people themselves have “chosen” to “opt in”.

There is only one solution to this problem, and it is political in nature.
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You need to ask the person who thinks it’s so obviously an issue to use peanuts from India that it requires no explanation - the person I replied to.
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Its hard, but you're trading memory safety for performance. Rust cheerleaders will tell you that its possible to avoid that trade-off, but the proof is in the pudding. Its become almost impossible to see a new OS project succeed in the current landscape, so maybe an entire AAA game written in Rust will be an interesting challenge.

Also, being memory safe doesn't get you much (or rather very very little IMHO), because complex code still contains logic bugs, UI bugs, performance bugs, etc, etc. Personally, I want the program to crash rather than keep running only to find out it was silently messing up data or otherwise leaving things in an inconsistent state.
Check out co-ops. There was one near Uchicago, my friend lived there with 20 others, mostly not students. They had group dinners every night, cooked by housemates, and always had someone around to chat with. We used to hang there playing games and partying. The vibe was pretty hippie but if you dont mind that, I'd recommend it. The rent was equivalent to sharing a 3 or 4 bedroom but you got a lot more shared amenities and dinners to boot.
There is a correlation but the direction of causation isn't always the direction you would think.

Take the famous delayed gratification study where kids were given 2 treats if they didn't eat the 1 that was placed in front of them. More recent studies have indicated that eating the treat immediately may be a developed response to deprivation. And that wealthier kids were more likely to delay gratification--possibly because their experience taught them to believe the adult when they said there would be to 2 treats available later.

According to the new results, the will power displayed in the delayed gratification tests was a result of wealth not a cause of wealth.
Wtf . how did this guy beocme a VC ? His entire twitter feed is so mundane -- except for the 10X post -- that shit was hilarious. Even funnier were desperate founders who liked his post.
By definition you wouldn't know many lonely people. The chronically lonely ones are going to be the people who didn't end up getting married when they "should" have, couldn't make it into a proper career or fell out of one at some point. Most upper middle class people won't be lonely since if you can afford a career you can afford a social life or you might even be forced into one. But of course uncertainty and insecurity can make one feel lonely, so I guess that would count. Still that isn't going to be your epidemic. That is going to be those left behind.
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Why? It shouldn't be. They use 3-phase in Europe just like in the US, for industrial locations. The differences in residential or lower-voltage standards really have nothing to do with industrial power availability.
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I think if you had actually experienced both situations you would be less shaken by the robbery from a rich person because you might have had less confidence that they would actually shoot you.

This doesn't change the post hoc moral reasoning, but it night have incurred less impact on you.
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I’m not saying they are, but it is a question that presents itself given the context.
The showcase project for Rust is a web browser (after all, Rust started out at Mozilla), which is certainly one of the larger undertakings one can start nowadays.
>If everyone followed Public Health England’s eating advice, people in the bottom decile of household income would spend 74 per cent of their income on food

I find this very interesting. I'm a graduate student in Midwest of the US. My income places me in the bottom 20% of household incomes. Not poor, but money must be carefully managed. In my experience, eating well isn't that expensive in terms of time or money, provided you are willing to adjust your diet. I keep good track of my finances and diet, and I spend nowhere near that figure (and I still wouldn't, even if I made half of what I do) and I have a pretty healthy diet and reasonably active lifestyle.

What are in these guidelines making them so expensive? Or in the US, particularly in the Midwest, is the cost of food that much cheaper than the UK?
Would you care to explain this? When you mention tiling an octahedron with hexagons, the first thing I imagine is a truncated octahedron, which is composed of hexagons and squares.
I agree about thinking "in system", but your "as fast as possible" comment is interesting, because I think this actually highlights the kind of problem that mathematical thinking is good at fixing.

Why "as fast as possible"? Usually when programmers say this it's because they think "the faster, the better!". But obviously there is some speed beyond which there's no discernible improvement. At that point, pursuing the as-fast-as-possible mandate at the expense of other concerns is the wrong thing to do.

Therefore, there's an assumption built into this statement that the system will never be that fast, and therefore "as fast as possible" is a good target. Needless to say this isn't a safe assumption.

The thing is that we're built to be really bad at knowing when we're making assumptions. Thinking mathematically is to some extent a way of trying to overcome that limitation.
> overemphasis on the importance of math in programming

Well, any fool can write a loop. But to do the same thing in constant time instead one might need to use some math.
> if for whatever reason you are no longer able to serve HTTPS traffic

Isn't that how it should work? Would you rather use Gmail over HTTP if its HTTPS stopped working? Besides, just supporting HTTP fallback means you're much more vulnerable to downgrade attacks -- it's the first thing attackers will attempt to use.
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Welcome in reality.
at one point a friend of mine was lamenting how all these volunteer activities kept her from having a social life, to which i responded that these activities were my social life, and i would not have it any other way. it's all a matter of perspective.
> that's a special case of the field of optimization, another mathematical discipline.

I'm not sure how you can claim that the entire field of optimization is a "mathematical discipline". Algorithm analysis is, I suppose, but most other practical optimization work has little if anything to do with math.

When I've spent time doing optimization work, it has often involved things like:

* Discovering some API I'm using is particularly slow and finding an alternate one that's faster.

* Adding caching.

* Reorganizing code to take advantage of vector instructions. (Well, I haven't personally done this, but I know it's a think many others do.)

* Reorganizing data to improve CPU cache usage.

* Evaluating some things lazily when they aren't always needed.

* Making objects smaller to put less pressure on the GC.

* Inlining functions or switching some functions to macros to avoid call overhead.

* Tweaking code to get some values into registers.
Some even defend a form of Linguistic Determinism that thinking is limited to what is typable.

Expressible conscious thought is limited to just a bit beyond what is readily typed or spoken. Not all thought is conscious. Just about every take-home test in grad school, I'd wrestle with the problem, go to bed thinking I was going to flunk, then find myself writing down the answers over breakfast.

There's the "tip of the tongue" experience, where you know you should be able to know something, but can't quite get it out. This not only happens with memory. It also happens with problem solving. This tells me that there's also unconscious thought and inexpressible thought we are conscious of.
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Definitely. I just hope licensing and regulation don't make it prohibitive, it would be fun even for personal use as well.
I do a fair bit of the interviewing for my office and if I hear the phrase 10x engineer coming out of an applicants mouth, its an insta-rejection(unless they are joking obviously).

I know it sounds harsh, but I translate self-described 10x engineer as: egotistical prick who has never been check on their design principles. I'm looking to grow a team not feed the ego of an individual who literally think they 10x as good as everyone else.

You can keep the two cents.
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For a year I had no complaints about the Dell keyboard.

In the beginning I thought it's decent. Now a new computer was set-up at the next desk with a brand-new keyboard of that kind. When I had to type something in on that new Dell keyboard of the same kind, the tactile feedback was much clearer. I am assuming it feels better since it is new and the rubber domes (needs verification) are not that used.

At my desk I am now getting annoyed of the worn out feeling. It's interesting how perception changes when you have a direct comparison.
If you don't use HSTS, you have to be _really_ sure that _all_ your users fully understand the risks of using an unencrypted connection.

In the example you gave, wouldn't you have lost all your work anyway without HSTS? I don't think browsers supply an easy way to retry POST to the corresponding http: URL whether HSTS is set up or not.
I think you're missing the point. The point is return per unit will power is massively correlated with your socioeconomic background—poor and disadvantaged people have to use a lot more will power to get the same benefits that rich people born into privilege do. What's more, people have a finite supply of will power, people who desperately struggle to make ends meet may have little will left over at the end of the day to eat a balanced dinner, or go for a run, to put it simply.
People do it all the time. It's unfortunately the exception, not the rule.
> Incredibly he was uninjured

Usually people who make that mistake don't get away any where close to that cleanly. One of the more horrific ways to accidentally die...
Good point! :-) (I think in this case we may not be the superior intellect.)
Hah, it seemed like they only restricted it for my IP address. When I use a proxy, it works.
> One is that the general public actually doesn’t care about privacy at all. It’s a niche concern.

There is an established term for this innate human trait: "dancing pigs".

> In computer security, the "dancing pigs" is a term or problem that describes computer users' attitudes to computer security. It states that users will continue to pick an amusing graphic even if they receive a warning from security software that it is potentially dangerous. In other words, users choose their primary desire features without considering the security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs
Yup, eating to much and doing to little.
Well yeah, all their friends and family are working.
I would argue that it actually might not matter too much:

1. In a constraint context (embedded/kernel) you want to preallocate most things anyway, since even normal malloc/free isn't deterministic. Once you preallocate objects, it doesn't matter if those are coming from a long-lived GCed heap or from somewhere else.

2. Kernels like Linux rely on the fact that some small allocations never fail. Plugging in a GC and asserting that it won't fail would have the same effect (with some impact on latencies).

What might be most important is that the language supports explicit stack allocations, which avoids the need for any kind of heap when necessary. That is given for languages like C# and Go.
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The author was responding to a specific (and ridiculous) definition of 10x engineer provided by a VC on Twitter. He makes this clear in the first paragraph of the article.

Take more time to understand the context before assuming a lack of understanding.
> Though headphones don't help with visual distraction.

I often wear my hood up or wear a cap (or both) on times where I need to focus on something very complex. The TV show hacker stereotype is true for me.
When Bing launched, they had a deal that you get 15% off retailer orders if you buy an item after landing on that page from the Bing search results.

Ebay was one of their partners. I Bing'ed "1oz gold coin," clicked into Ebay listings, and bought a bunch of gold for 15% off that I immediately resold.

They quickly added more restrictions to the promotion.
Behaviours serve a purpose - or they become extinct. Sugar, fats and the like can serve to self-sooth. Humans, contrary to what it sounds like you think - aren't terribly rational - humans are emotional creatures. To understand why a particular individual is overweight needs to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. What is the function of overeating in this case? Is it biological (e.g. damaged hypothalamus) - are they depressed - stressed? What function does the behaviour serve?

The human condition and success encompasses more factors than simple self-control and determination (so does financial success as well - it's not purely a function of determination and self-control... for example, what if you're a great schmoozer? You're taking clients out to dinner all the time & drinking with them? What if they're also overweight? What if this is one of the root causes of your success? (in your mind))...

Thinking + feeling = judging. So, you think why are they fat? (a thought) and then you feel something (surprise). So now you're judging - and this can very well get in the way of truly understanding others. I hope this helps :-)
I share the same reasoning and why I personally, question a person in a position of management. Being overweight, fine. But being obese is just a lack of will power.

It is refreshing to see CEOs like Musk and Bezos work on their health as they became more successful.
LVT seems like a positive change, I agree.
I'd personally turn to rice/beans/potatoes if I wanted to save money on food before I turned to eating worms and snails. Did you try any of those?
I think his point is that it also may indicate that it's not (simply) a function of wealth, as the article suggests.
(Note that rust does not cause tetanus. Tetanus germs live in wet soil, that just happens to be the reason the sharp thing was rusted.)
The word "willpower" is a near-useless metric in a vacuum. It's not the same as physical strength, where its measurement, attainment, and abilities are all pretty straightforward. The mental portion of one's ability to do hard things is a complex function of a ton of variables, both environmental and intrinsic. The portion that is under our control is just one of those variables - though it is certainly a critical portion, and people should absolutely be encouraged to be proactive and try to go above and beyond what they feel like that portion makes them capable of. But to boil it down to "health and wealth are both highly correlated with personal will power... I really have no trouble doing it" is kind of short on substance.
> Willpower is a limited resource and is easily drained

That study unfortunately failed to replicate

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/willpower-ego-de...
How do I find a technical co-founder?
So here is the usual! A guy with a great understanding of tech but has no skills to get down and dirty. I have written heartfelt briefs, tried to hire a tech team (which failed woefully). Got the right team, but can't afford high bill for now. Also spent a lot of time of several fora posting similar messages, seeking a tech co-founder.

The question for me is - How do I find a tech co-founder to work with us? My idea is oversimplified and part of a first step into a series of biztech solutions for small businesses. It seems that I have not been able to communicate our message or vision to would be cofounders clearly. My current partner is a frontend designer and has no backend skills required. If we can get that programer to share in the vision, I am sure we will be a well rounded team that can "take on the world".

Brief: Invoicing SaaS product at MVP stage. Design interface design completed. Looking for a programmer who can join us in taking our app to the next level and launch in the market this year. Already have over 9k social media followers (planning to convert 7% to active paying subscribers).

Any advice where else I can find a cofounder. I am open to your suggestions. :)
> taxes go to the local government, but the non-resident buyer does not really consume government services, so that benefits the rest of the local population

The non-resident might not spend any money on goods or services in the municipality resulting in less tax revenue for the city/state. Especially bad if they don't even rent it out to anyone.