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ridhwaan commented on John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code   marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech... · Posted by u/hellschreiber
wmichelin · 6 years ago
Here is your daily reminder to read "Masters of Doom", a book about the early days at ID Software. It's an amazing look into a really cool time in gaming and software as a whole.

It's a great book, mostly about John Carmack and the guys at ID!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom

ridhwaan · 6 years ago
Lol you should have put an amazon affiliate link, I just bought it right now!
ridhwaan commented on Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression   daily.jstor.org/how-readi... · Posted by u/samclemens
hckr_news · 6 years ago
Slight tangent but somewhat related. The amount of damage mobile phones and the tech industry have done on the human mind has been extremely understated. These hits of dopamine aren’t free. There’s a massive cost. Loss of privacy aside, the next battle has to be addressing the addiction of these platforms/devices and what it means for humans going forward.
ridhwaan · 6 years ago
This was the underlying implication of my post. Reading a book is in no way similar to the way we consume media/information today.
ridhwaan commented on Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression   daily.jstor.org/how-readi... · Posted by u/samclemens
ridhwaan · 6 years ago
Our culture is moving or has already moved away from a reading culture. Instead of spending free time reading, people watch Netflix, Youtube, TikTok etc. I think that has huge consequences on human behavior. Where as once people would read the newspaper and be able to think about what is happening in the world, people today scroll through their feed where in one instant they are reading an article about war crimes in South America committed by the U.S. and in the next instant what Kylie Jenner wore to the MET gala.
ridhwaan commented on Rust Survey 2019 Results   blog.rust-lang.org/2020/0... · Posted by u/steveklabnik
ridhwaan · 6 years ago
Ask HN: Do you recommend learning C++ first then Rust? My logic is that learning C++ and navigating its pitfalls would lead to a better understand of Rust and the underlying reason behind certain design decisions.

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