<story><title>Microsoft&apos;s forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/minecrafts-new-education-edition-written-in-c-will-outrun-the-java-version/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Almaviva</author><text>I think he may be the best refutation against people who don&amp;#x27;t believe in 10x engineers. Imagine you want to create a VR prototype and get to hire 100 average programmers with some experience in the industry, and you&amp;#x27;re up against Carmack with a month until your demo...</text></item><item><author>sheepdestroyer</author><text>Micro optimized by John Carmack himself who volunteered (he was like a free consultant for while) for the task because he believed that&amp;#x27;s the best that could be done to help VR. He first had to personally persuade both hierarchy at FB &amp;amp; MS. So bold.&lt;p&gt;From : &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;venturebeat.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-microsoft-to-let-him-make-minecraft-for-gear-vr&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;venturebeat.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;“I was willing to do just about anything,” he said. “On the phone I said that if this doesn’t happen, I’m going to cry. This will just be so terrible. This will be the best thing that we can do for the platform. But there are some problems that compilers can’t solve.”&lt;p&gt;It turns out that the solution was to get the top executives from Facebook and Microsoft together.&lt;p&gt;“Mark [Zuckerberg] and Satya [Nadella] were able to sit down and make sure that the deal happened,” said Carmack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samizdatum</author><text>Carmack is just insanely productive. He had a working prototype of the GearVR Netflix app &lt;i&gt;three days&lt;/i&gt; after he started working with Netflix to develop it, and pretty much finished the app a week later.&lt;p&gt;Have a read about how he developed the app:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techblog.netflix.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;john-carmack-on-developing-netflix-app.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techblog.netflix.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;john-carmack-on-developi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost beyond belief what he managed to accomplish in one and a half weeks. Hacking the Netflix video decoding system, fine-tuning the UX control heuristics, working around DRM limitations, 
optimizing the power draw and thermals, and much more, all on top of implementing the very polished app itself.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft&apos;s forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/minecrafts-new-education-edition-written-in-c-will-outrun-the-java-version/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Almaviva</author><text>I think he may be the best refutation against people who don&amp;#x27;t believe in 10x engineers. Imagine you want to create a VR prototype and get to hire 100 average programmers with some experience in the industry, and you&amp;#x27;re up against Carmack with a month until your demo...</text></item><item><author>sheepdestroyer</author><text>Micro optimized by John Carmack himself who volunteered (he was like a free consultant for while) for the task because he believed that&amp;#x27;s the best that could be done to help VR. He first had to personally persuade both hierarchy at FB &amp;amp; MS. So bold.&lt;p&gt;From : &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;venturebeat.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-microsoft-to-let-him-make-minecraft-for-gear-vr&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;venturebeat.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;“I was willing to do just about anything,” he said. “On the phone I said that if this doesn’t happen, I’m going to cry. This will just be so terrible. This will be the best thing that we can do for the platform. But there are some problems that compilers can’t solve.”&lt;p&gt;It turns out that the solution was to get the top executives from Facebook and Microsoft together.&lt;p&gt;“Mark [Zuckerberg] and Satya [Nadella] were able to sit down and make sure that the deal happened,” said Carmack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think people disbelieve that 10x engineers exist. Just that 98% of those who claim to be one are wrong.</text></comment>