There's so much interesting stuff in the full interivew - talk programming languages, how software is written in big companies, games and history of games, AI, VR etc. It's always interesting to hear about how Carmack thinks and works. He had some very pragmatic takes too (not liking lisps for large projects, wanting to write more Go if he has the opportunity, nice things to say about JavaScript...)
The original HN post got derailed into talks about Lex, and I don't think that most people had even watched / listened to a 5-hour podcast at the time of the discussion.
I only listen to two long podcasts regularly (and the occasional Lex Friedman or JRE, though they’re usually shorter):
- Alles Gesagt from German newspaper Die Zeit (almost half of them are in English). These are interviews that go on until the interviewee says a magic word. They usually do them at the interviewee’s home.
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, my favourite on long drives.
The original HN post got derailed into talks about Lex, and I don't think that most people had even watched / listened to a 5-hour podcast at the time of the discussion.