| ▲ | AndrewKemendo 3 hours ago | |
In my experience what I see happen is that executives look at comments like this as proof that grinding people into the ground actually work They don’t care about whether or not a company lasts for 30 years or whatever they care that stuff gets shipped and point to this as: “the best programmer in the world was only successful because he pushed his people super hard” So I wouldn’t be hopeful that this is an effective warning | ||
| ▲ | somecontext 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
In the linked thread that John Carmack is responding to, Sandy Petersen agrees: > So if my theorem is correct, and Quake gutted id Software, was it worth it? Well I'd say yes absolutely. | ||