<story><title>Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen</title><url>http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-faster-than-sending-a-pixel-to-the-screen/419167#419167</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>I know fanboy gushing isn&apos;t really productive. But I&apos;d just like to say that it&apos;s so awesome to live in a time when we can start a topic of conversation about someone of note, and there&apos;s a chance that this individual will join the conversation personally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmelton</author><text>I remember once upon a time WAAAAY back in the mid-90s I think, when I was having a problem with my Voodoo2 graphics driver and Quake.&lt;p&gt;I posted the problem on one of the Newsgroups at the time and got my reply back from John Carmack himself (which naturally fixed the problem pretty quickly.)&lt;p&gt;I remember being extremely excited then, as I&apos;m sure the questioner is now on SO.</text></comment>
<story><title>Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen</title><url>http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-faster-than-sending-a-pixel-to-the-screen/419167#419167</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>I know fanboy gushing isn&apos;t really productive. But I&apos;d just like to say that it&apos;s so awesome to live in a time when we can start a topic of conversation about someone of note, and there&apos;s a chance that this individual will join the conversation personally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klmr</author><text>I pinged John on Twitter with a link to elicit an answer. I have to agree with you, having this proximity and immediacy through things like Twitter, Stack Overflow and services like HN is quite exciting. Just a few years ago this would have been almost unheard of (exceptions always prove the rule).</text></comment>