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danso on Nov 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Id Software founder John Carmack resigns

Obligatory mention of "Masters of DOOM", the biography of Johns Carmack and Romero:

http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...

Like reading iWoz... a lot of stories of brilliant engineering at an elite level.

mg74 on Nov 22, 2013 | [–]

Seconded!

And I can recommend the audio version, Wil Wheaton does a great job.

WA on Nov 24, 2013 | | [–]

This book is absolutely fantastic. I devoured it in 2 afternoons, unable to do anything else. More exciting than some fictional thriller.

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