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ronnier on Sept 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Quake (the videogame) changed my life forever.

Quake also changed my life. I bought my first computer to play Quake which got me into scripting and making video game websites. That got me interested in programming and lead me to getting a masters in CS and programming jobs while in school. Now I'm at Amazon thanks to John Carmack!

akshaykarthik on Sept 25, 2011 [–]

My first foray into programming was actually a yearning to figure out someone else's aimbot for Quake.

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