other / built
Pascal
“I built a programming language and a full compiler for a language like Pascal because I didn’t know where you went to buy one of those.”
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Tim Sweeney
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other / built
Fortnite
“Our aim for that is with Epic online services, and the social systems that we built for Fortnite opened up to all developers to have cross-platform social features be super easy and free for all developers.”
other / built
Unreal Engine
“Do you just forget about it when you actually go off to do work or do you write down equations on paper? It was actually not clear as an early engineering student what you do, but when I started writing the first generation Unreal Engine and I was dealing with 3DMS, I was like, wait, I know this stuff.”
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01 / observation
The problem is when you introduce multiple threads or multiple nodes in a data center, all working together on a single problem, is that they each want to read and write different pieces of data, and change of the state of the world as they go.
“The problem is when you introduce multiple threads or multiple nodes in a data center, all working together on a single problem, is that they each want to read and write different pieces of data, and change of the state of the world as they go.”
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- Tim Sweeney
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / observation
It’s like, what, a developer isn’t in Apple’s good graces, so just slow down the updates. So they’ve been slowing down updates for several major tech companies, sometimes for weeks, sometimes for months, without all going under the radar because everybody’s afraid to challenge them publicly.
“It’s like, what, a developer isn’t in Apple’s good graces, so just slow down the updates. So they’ve been slowing down updates for several major tech companies, sometimes for weeks, sometimes for months, without all going under the radar because everybody’s afraid to challenge them publicly.”
- Speaker
- Tim Sweeney
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast