alt Hacker News> I think there’s actually a sharp contrast with John Carmack here. Fabrice might be smarter and faster but Carmack is perhaps a better software engineer.
There’s few things I find more pathetic than trying really hard to show who’s best and ranking things that have no business being ranked.
You will find humans are n-dimensional and elude these simplistic categories.
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Carmack and Bellard are both wizards, and trying to rank them is a fool's errand. Let's appreciate them both!
> There’s few things I find more pathetic than trying really hard to show who’s best and ranking things that have no business being ranked.
This seems like a strangely harsh response considering the person you're responding to is just restating the assertion that Carmack made in his tweet.
Carmack it's a better engineer, but Bellard it's a better thinker and innovator. To each its own.
Yes, ranking requires reducing to a single dimension where all interesting things are multi-dimensions. This is a lossy process, which often tells more about the one(s) doing the ranking than what's ranked.