But who is Terry Davis? Some sort of bird fancier?
IshKebab•1mo ago
He was a crazy guy (in the mentally ill sense) that wrote TempleOS. The religious craziness in this project is some kind of weird tribute to Terry, who also filled TempleOS will religious nonsense. (He believed all sorts of insane things and was also racist.)
And also a genius.
All you said was true, but templeOS is a masterpiece.
hyperhello•1mo ago
How so? I know nothing outside of seeing one screenshot, but was there more to it than just a particular implementation of the same table stakes algorithms in every MSCS program?
Thank you. It looks like the inventions were mothered by necessities of having one developer and one user.
eska•1mo ago
There are many bad things to be said about TempleOS, many aspects of it that seem poorly constructed or wouldn't work in the "real world". I'm going to ignore them here. It's very easy to be negative, but you will never learn anything new by doing so.
I think you should reflect on why you’re so dismissive of other’s work. When I see comments like yours it makes me think the commenter must have some self-worth issues requiring them to put others down in order to feel better about themselves.
danparsonson•1mo ago
Or, with a little more empathy: he was suffering from schizophrenia.
tptacek•1mo ago
A homeless man suffering from schizophrenia who was mascotized by trolls.
For my part, I'd just flag anything like this that I see on the front page.
sshine•1mo ago
> mascotized by trolls
That’s perhaps true for some segment of Internet users. But I believe for just as big a part, there is an understanding and respect for computer use as a coping strategy for hardship.
Writing an operating system while suffering from schizophrenia is a testament to how far that cope might stretch.
throwaway613745•1mo ago
Terry is what happens when extremely intelligent people don’t get the help they need.
He was abandoned by his family and society and became the play thing for internet trolls.
His life was a tragedy in every sense.
As someone who also has a young family member who’s potential was also utterly destroyed by schizophrenia, Terry’s story fills me with immense sadness.
pbronez•1mo ago
Somebody should write a book or make a movie about Terry. It’s a very modern, very human story.
abnercoimbre•1mo ago
Crazy that you were downvoted. Oh well, the submission's flagged anyway.
sshine•1mo ago
> also filled TempleOS will religious nonsense
An example of what I perceive to be an ideological design choice in TempleOS is the lack of virtual memory; if programs are good (in the moral sense), virtual memory is much less useful.
spankibalt•1mo ago
But who is Terry Davis? Some sort of bird fancier?
IshKebab•1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
heliumtera•1mo ago
hyperhello•1mo ago
krackers•1mo ago
hyperhello•1mo ago
eska•1mo ago
I think you should reflect on why you’re so dismissive of other’s work. When I see comments like yours it makes me think the commenter must have some self-worth issues requiring them to put others down in order to feel better about themselves.
danparsonson•1mo ago
tptacek•1mo ago
For my part, I'd just flag anything like this that I see on the front page.
sshine•1mo ago
That’s perhaps true for some segment of Internet users. But I believe for just as big a part, there is an understanding and respect for computer use as a coping strategy for hardship.
Writing an operating system while suffering from schizophrenia is a testament to how far that cope might stretch.
throwaway613745•1mo ago
He was abandoned by his family and society and became the play thing for internet trolls.
His life was a tragedy in every sense.
As someone who also has a young family member who’s potential was also utterly destroyed by schizophrenia, Terry’s story fills me with immense sadness.
pbronez•1mo ago
abnercoimbre•1mo ago
sshine•1mo ago
An example of what I perceive to be an ideological design choice in TempleOS is the lack of virtual memory; if programs are good (in the moral sense), virtual memory is much less useful.