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Whenever I watch one of Terry's videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming idiom,

by LVB 10y ago

Whenever I watch one of Terry's videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming idiom, or even designing some larger project. But literally type stuff into a computer and make things appear on the screen. It is remarkable how watching his TempleOS videos uncovers the fascination I had of computers from my youth, 30 years ago.

runeks 10y ago
You've got me curious. Who's Terry? And where can I see one of his videos?
- 0xdada 10y ago
  Terry A. Davis, creator of Temple OS. Here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q/vid...
  - ralfd 10y ago
    Clicked a recent video and he rants about random numbers, the lottery and the "whitest of the white scientists of the National Institute of Standards" with a few colorful "monkey niggers" thrown in. ..... uh Okay? Is that guy crazy? In the comments people say he has a 90 day youtube ban.
    - klodolph 10y ago
      Terry is schizophrenic.
    - wolfgke 10y ago
      > Is that guy crazy? Yes, he is schizophrenic (which does not change the fact that he is a great lowlevel programmer).
    - qarioz 10y ago
      Yes he is. TempleOs is his literal third temple of god. He is a very skilled guy though. Own operating system, own programming language, own terminal, made first person shooter and flight simulator from scratch. Just to show you what a skilled guy in different mindset can do.
- pkd 10y ago
  One should probably add a trigger warning. He is schizophrenic and not quite himself at times, especially in the comments. Not to take away from his technical feats.
  - Mithaldu 10y ago
    At first i thought that was a bit of an exaggeration, but after listening to him talk in his "What God Wants in Music" video, that is actually a reasonable request to make. He very casually and without warning declares things that might easily make traumatized people relive things.
    - BuildTheRobots 10y ago
      Well that was unexpected [1]. I can kinda see what he means, but I'm not sure I'd use the same simile. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozt2d8t8hIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozt2d8t8hIU
      - paki123 10y ago
        What the fuck? I'm going down a rabbit hole. See y'all later.
      - pmarreck 10y ago
        jesus, right in the first minute, goddamn
  - dajohnson89 10y ago
    I think it's worth being specific here -- he uses the word "nigger" frequently and regularly makes other nasty comments about black people and other minorities.
    - panglott 10y ago
      When I've seen his website in the past, the crazy religious stuff has always been there, which I can look past, but now it seems like the crazy racist stuff is way way more prominent, which I just cannot.
digi_owl 10y ago
Well well now i am curious. That was what drew me towards Linux back in the day as i felt Windows was getting more and more convoluted and opaque. And these days the feeling is rising in me again as i watch what is being introduced above the kernel on almost a daily basis.

by LVB 10y ago

runeks 10y ago

You've got me curious. Who's Terry? And where can I see one of his videos?

0xdada 10y ago
Terry A. Davis, creator of Temple OS. Here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q/vid...
- ralfd 10y ago
  Clicked a recent video and he rants about random numbers, the lottery and the "whitest of the white scientists of the National Institute of Standards" with a few colorful "monkey niggers" thrown in. ..... uh Okay? Is that guy crazy? In the comments people say he has a 90 day youtube ban.
  - klodolph 10y ago
    Terry is schizophrenic.
  - wolfgke 10y ago
    > Is that guy crazy? Yes, he is schizophrenic (which does not change the fact that he is a great lowlevel programmer).
  - qarioz 10y ago
    Yes he is. TempleOs is his literal third temple of god. He is a very skilled guy though. Own operating system, own programming language, own terminal, made first person shooter and flight simulator from scratch. Just to show you what a skilled guy in different mindset can do.
pkd 10y ago
One should probably add a trigger warning. He is schizophrenic and not quite himself at times, especially in the comments. Not to take away from his technical feats.
- Mithaldu 10y ago
  At first i thought that was a bit of an exaggeration, but after listening to him talk in his "What God Wants in Music" video, that is actually a reasonable request to make. He very casually and without warning declares things that might easily make traumatized people relive things.
  - BuildTheRobots 10y ago
    Well that was unexpected [1]. I can kinda see what he means, but I'm not sure I'd use the same simile. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozt2d8t8hIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozt2d8t8hIU
    - paki123 10y ago
      What the fuck? I'm going down a rabbit hole. See y'all later.
    - pmarreck 10y ago
      jesus, right in the first minute, goddamn
- dajohnson89 10y ago
  I think it's worth being specific here -- he uses the word "nigger" frequently and regularly makes other nasty comments about black people and other minorities.
  - panglott 10y ago
    When I've seen his website in the past, the crazy religious stuff has always been there, which I can look past, but now it seems like the crazy racist stuff is way way more prominent, which I just cannot.

digi_owl 10y ago

Well well now i am curious. That was what drew me towards Linux back in the day as i felt Windows was getting more and more convoluted and opaque. And these days the feeling is rising in me again as i watch what is being introduced above the kernel on almost a daily basis.