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		eru 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going ... You can use money and time to buy skills.

cptskippy 12 days ago [–]

Unlimited time and money will not make someone like me a John Carmack level programmer. There are a finite number of individuals operating at his level or above and having them hyper optimize code is a poor use of their time.

eru 11 days ago | [–]

Oh, I meant more like: if you have enough money, you can employ John Carmack (or similar) for a while.

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