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		haberman on April 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, a... "I had met John [Carmack] in person just once before, but he knew me from PC graphics articles of mine he had read when he was first learning to program the PC" Ha, if that's not geek cred I don't know what is.

sbierwagen on April 14, 2012 [–]

Abrash is a Big Name in the computer graphics field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_at_ep_srch?_encoding=UTF8...

haberman on April 14, 2012 | [–]

I know that, I own several of his books. :)

Still, to be the person that John Carmack learned graphics programming from... that's pretty badass.

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