Kind of ironic that this site bothered me with one of those full screen, must-click-away, overlays trying to get me to subscribe to their newsletter.

is it ironic? that's just how substack works.

That’s the warm feeling of acceptance.

I tried this once at work, because it seems like such a trivial task. Spoiler: it wasn’t.

Having said that, I learned a lot from it. So I wouldn’t say don’t do it. You’ll probably learn from it. Just don’t expect to make the next MongoDB or MySQL :)

Hahahahah I’m interested in what he said on IRC. Got some examples?

I can't find it right now, but there was a collection of crazy stuff he said on IRC while Quake was in development. Basically promising the world (e.g. the dragon). Very energetic, but clearly not well thought out.

I loved the part where he was still with id; how he grew up, and how id came to be. The magic of that founding id games makes you wish you were a part of that group. After that, the Ion Storm stuff gives some context to the failure, which was interesting to read. But it becomes a bit more incoherent. Towards the end, post Ion Storm, it just feels like he's going through notes he wrote down, and you're reading them in a chronological order. All in all one of my favorite books, but the end was a bit of a drag.

I’m relatively new to this site. Why is this post popular? For me it links to the Bitwarden front page.

afaik this site is for showing interesting things and discussing them. this post is to show the bitwarden password manager, nothing more to it.

OK, thank you :)

The great thing is, if it was a scheme as implied, they now have so much reputational damage on their hands.

Which is why this "scheme" seems highly unlikely.