Inside3D Asks #4: Quake 1 and the community.

[Sajt]

[Downsider]

[LonePossum.]

[Downsider]

[goldenboy]

[Sajt]

[Teiman]

[Downsider]

[Baker]

[Sajt]

[goldenboy]

Baker: I appreciate that, I guess the kimp incident(s) just got to me.

Sajt: I agree with what you say about the 10 minutes. It's similar here.

[frag.machine]

[mankrip]

[gnounc]

[Baker]

Quake is like a Phoenix. The developer community is like the Hall of the Mountain King.

Conventional wisdom means little, it is actions of the developers that pull the strings.

Algorithms can do in minutes things that brute force can fail to do in a million years. This is why philosophy matters.

Thinking tomorrow resembles yesterday is a common mistake; tomorrow is clay and it is what you decide to make. But decisions require the weight of action. And without understanding "why" how could you commit to such a thing?

This is why open source matters. I believe open source is the ultimate act of collective expression.

And lesser people oppose this line of thought, precisely because they are lesser and more resemble our caveman ancestors that needed a pat on the head or attention or those other things that "mommy" provides ...

Only human vanity believes that adding a brick on top of the pyramid is actually building the whole pyramid. I myself can add a brick on top of that pyramid without deluding myself that I created the whole pyramid and still be satisfied that I had something to contribute towards that greater good.

It IS the act of giving that both makes you greater and makes you good.