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A cult following for the God-given operating system. Huh. Sounds a bit sacrilegious.
by Orangeair 10y ago
A cult following for the God-given operating system. Huh. Sounds a bit sacrilegious.
- 1propionyl 10y agoTempleOS was a fork of SynagogueOS, so this isn't surprising. I've heard MosqueOS is really gaining adoption.
- koolba 10y agoThey all perform system calls to the same kernel.
- blackdivine 10y agoIf only the users realize that!
- sctb 10y agoPlease don't post unsubstantively like this here.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- logicallee 10y ago[I've decided to remove this comment.]
- bshimmin 10y agoI don't know why I'm doing this, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YokNW7tIs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YokNW7tIs (Fairly obviously NSFW or the readily-offended if you have the sound on.)
- logicallee 10y ago[removed]
- cmdrfred 10y agoLook here's the deal with him. The man is unwell. What do you have to gain from digging down rabbit holes like this? In regards to Terry I have taken a "if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything" policy. Every once in a while, if you like his work send him a note telling him so. Don't endeavor to increase his suffering. The same fate may await any of us.
- cyberpunk 10y agoI'm with you cmdrfred. I don't understand why anyone would do these things. Terry wrote an entire OS+Bootloader, dozens of remarkable apps for it, the toolchain for the custom programming language it's written in (which he also created) by himself. The scale of that achievement boggles my mind. There's no -lreadline anywhere there.. No curses.. No gcc. No copy/pasting phkmalloc and so on. Absolutely nothing that he didn't write himself. I'm stunned by his achievement. And yet we're googling for videos where he's manic for laughs? Have some fucking respect. If you can't do that then have the manners to keep silent. This person achieved more than any developer I'm aware of and none of us are in position to mock him. Shame on those who are trying to.
- Kiro 10y agoYou make it sound like Terry is completely innocent. Have you seen his comments?
- HeavenBanned 10y agoHe's a disorganized schizophrenic who exhibits chronic word salad, what else did you expect from a mentally ill person? Sanity? Give me a fucking break, man.
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- ars 10y agoI believe what you are describing is the Texas sharpshooter fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
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- cpayne 10y agoI really don't understand this community sometimes. If you are going to downvote a comment, why not explain why? Is there a perceived laziness? Or have I missed something??? At least let me know what is / isn't appropriate
- brudgers 10y agoSoliciting help for a project to target Davis with unkindness is inappropriate, to put it mildly. I can't argue with your observation regarding understanding the Hacker News community.
- dahart 10y ago> If you are going to downvote a comment, why not explain why? "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html That is largely interpreted as 'mostly refrain from talking about voting'. Keep in mind, downvoting here happens for many different reasons, it's not always negative and it is best not to take it personally or make assumptions about why it's happening. You could think of it as symmetric to upvoting & ask yourself whether you want an explanation for every upvote... maybe not? The goal is to have a high signal to noise ratio, and discussion of votes is mostly noise and almost always tangential to the article/thread. I also didn't see the parent comment, but Terry & TempleOS have a long and complicated history here, so it might be a good idea to reserve judgement.
- openasocket 10y agoI can tell you why I'm inclined to downvote this comment, though I don't know if it's the safe reasons others have. Note that I can only see the question, not whatever you removed. Those outbursts are bordering on full schizophasia, they are symptoms of his mental illness. He is certainly an interesting person, and it's perfectly natural to be curious about his condition. But you're asking for a video depicting him suffering some of the most severe effects of his mental illness, which borders on voyeuristic. Being interested in him is fine, being interested in schizophrenia is fine, but that curiosity has to be balanced with some degree of constraint and respect for a person who is suffering from a debilitating condition. Again, nothing wrong with curiosity, and I don't doubt that you meant no harm in asking. But it's important that we don't let discussions about Terry devolve into some sort of carnival freak show, and your question stepped too close to that line.
- krylon 10y agoIsn't that exactly what God would want? I just wonder how long it'll take for some heretical sect to start a fork and add blasphemous features like networking or 32-bit colors... ;-)
- sctb 10y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive comments here. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13972467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13972467 and marked it off-topic.