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Terry Davis, Author of TempleOS, has passed away [unconfirmed, mods please rm]
- robobro 8y agoNOOOOOO
- shiado 8y agoVery few people can say they have built something as interesting as TempleOS. It was incredibly tragic to watch Terry's condition deteriorate over the years.
- grawprog 8y agoI tried templeOS because it did sound like a fairly cool project or at least some of the ideas behind it. I was never really able to do much with it though and I didn't really have the patience to learn all the obscure nonsense built into it. But I do like the idea of a simple operating system with flat memory that encourages hacking and playing with it in a way that's not really possible with most modern operating systems. I know his behaviour wasn't looked at the best and he generally offended just about everybody that read the stuff he wrote but, it's kinda funny, when I first discovered templeOS I was right in the middle of trying to help a fairly intensely schizophrenic friend of mine get their life together. A lot of stuff I read about Terry's life and the stuff he did reminded me a lot of the stuff my friend was going through. Terry seemed like he could have had some semblance of a reasonable life if he'd gotten the kind of help he needed but the way he acted seemed to alienate anyone who tried even his family. It's sad. He really did seem like a genius in a lot of ways. It's too bad he was totally fucked and never got the help he needed.
- robobro 8y agoDe mortuis nihil nisi bonum "Of the dead, speak no evil"
- grawprog 8y agoI wasn't trying to speak poorly of him. I'm not very good at wording such things. Personally, I think it sucks people let the things he said stop them from doing anything for him. Sometimes all it takes is one person caring and putting effort in to help someone change their life for the better.
- sterlind 8y agoHe reminded me of Henry Darger in many ways. He spent a troubled life building his own world from the ground up, resulting in something inconsequential yet truly cool. His statements were offensive, but I don't blame him at all - I empathize with his mental health struggles. May he rest in peace.
- elorm 8y agoNeither the post nor the Album stated appear in her timeline. Are they private? I'd hate to be the skeptic here, but there's no way I'm believing a screenshot that appeared on 4chan[0] without verifying first. [0] http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/67398108#p67398129 http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/67398108#p67398129
- rjeli 8y agoyeah sorry, I didn't realize it was so dubious, just got emotional... I messaged HN mods to remove this post until it's confirmed.
- bb010g 8y agoAs much as I don't like going through KF threads, it looks like it's pretty likely, and his mom is also dead. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/terry-a-davis-terrence-andrew-davis.325/page-62#post-3717802 https://kiwifarms.net/threads/terry-a-davis-terrence-andrew-... https://kiwifarms.net/threads/terry-a-davis-terrence-andrew-davis.325/page-69#post-3718547 https://kiwifarms.net/threads/terry-a-davis-terrence-andrew-... https://kiwifarms.net/threads/terry-a-davis-terrence-andrew-davis.325/page-70#post-3718689 https://kiwifarms.net/threads/terry-a-davis-terrence-andrew-...
- rjeli 8y ago:(
- striking 8y agoSomeone else with a childhood Facebook picture of him claims it's not true. http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/67398108#p67399396 http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/67398108#p67399396 Reverse Image Search has no results. I don't believe the OP.
- bignibba123 8y agoThat image doesn't mean anything. He used to share his personal family pictures a lot back when he was streaming in the van.
- ledriveby 8y agoA very bizarre set of reaction tweets, was Terry big among the alt-right/4chan crowds? It was very sad to witness his condition deteriorating over the past months.
- saagarjha 8y agoTerry, despite his achievements, was erratic and schizophrenic, which led to him posting a lot of racist rants. Qualities which I assume made him attractive to 4chan.
- uboa14 8y agoTerry's worldview is a largely coherent one which praises the old ways and the rule of Godly kings, in which White men are truly free; today, they obviously are not. He has the same visceral disgust toward race-mixing that most White people feel, and is not afraid to voice his opinions on it. Terry is a more authentic human being than 99.99% of the puppets that inhabit this Earth. Thank the Gods that the monk is (probably) still with us and will be with us, providing us with wisdom from the mountain tops, for years to come.
- saagarjha 8y agoHumor me for a moment. What exactly is “the monk”?
- allannienhuis 8y agoMost white people? Maybe you need to hang around with a different crowd.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't feed trolls. Or, as the site guidelines put it: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag)." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- savethefuture 8y agoThis is terrible news... I'll never forget the glory of TempleOS and holyC.
- samiur1204 8y agoGenuinely curious about what other people think about this, but why do people think it's an acceptable excuse for formerly mentally healthy people making insanely offensive comments after they start suffering from a mental health issue? I truly feel compassion for those going through mental health issues, but is it possible that the people who become offensive after becoming mentally ill always thought these things but just had a filter? Should we accept that?
- platinumrad 8y agoHe's obviously been deteriorating mentally for a long time. What do you think the proper response is, shaming him? He needed professional help—lots of it—and unfortunately, in the United States and many other places around the world, there are a lot of barriers that prevent people from getting that help so he ended up homeless and (possibly) dead.
- wk_end 8y agoThis probably isn't the time or place to discuss it. But FWIW, if someone thinks racist things but never speaks nor acts upon them, I'm not sure what it means to "accept" that or not; and I'm not sure how we could possibly know if they only came out because of schizophrenia or if schizophrenia triggered them in the first place. It all just seems to be kind of moot.
- RIMR 8y ago"I know the guy just died, but let's talk about how shitty he was." Read that, and try to understand why it is tasteless.
- notjones 8y agohis outburts of overt racism coincided with defining his life around being a technological prophet of god/being actively pursued by the CIA; if you're to believe that he held racist thoughts all along and that his illness only removed the filter, are you to believe that he also espoused those other two beliefs and they were only being kept in check?
- tomhoward 8y ago
- LeoPanthera 8y agoFor those who don't know: TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, SparrowOS and LoseThos) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system created by the American programmer Terry A. Davis. He developed the system alone over the course of 10 years. It was designed to be the Third Temple, according to Davis, and uses an interface similar to a mixture of DOS and Turbo C. Davis describes the operating system as a modern x86-64 Commodore 64 with a variation of C (named HolyC) in place of BASIC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
- AceJohnny2 8y agoMore interestingly, it was 64-bit from the core, and eschewed the use of traditional MMU in favor of just using the 64-bit address space to separate process's memory. Except, Terry Davis became schizophrenic and wouldn't take his meds. He changed the name of his OS to TempleOS after he decided he was hearing god through it. He used to comment here on HN (user "templeos" now deleted apparently), but his increasingly irrelevant and (literally) insanely racist comments quickly led him to being shadowbanned. Vice wrote an article about him: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonely-programmer https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonel... Last we heard a year or so ago, he was homeless in Vegas after getting kicked out by his parents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105043
- holy_c 8y agoTo add, here is a nice compilation from his live streams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqFgtYrw4J8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqFgtYrw4J8 (Nothing really dirty or offensive, more of his real personality.)
- bifrost 8y agoHe commented/posted as "losethos" for a while.
- H4CK3RM4N 8y agoHe kept posting on his account after being hellbanned, up to 3 months ago. You need showdead on. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS
- holy_c 8y agoF We'll miss watching your live streams Terry. See you on the other side.
- 6nf 8y agoWait really? That's extremely sad. I hope this is not true.
- fibers 8y agoi hope they send the CIA agents to hell for doing this to our sweet terry
- sunseb 8y agoThis guy definitely belongs to the hacker community. He was a weirdo, a misfit, a nerd, like many of us. There is always a thin line between being a genius and being insane.
- danmg 8y agoThe CIA will pay dearly for this assassination.
- Devagamster 8y agoUh this seems highly inappropriate
- danmg 8y agoIt's not inappropriate. Maybe there was some truth behind his rants about the CIA.
- sunseb 8y agoBe careful danmg, you could be next :)
- dang 8y agoPlease don't do this here.
- esaym 8y agoDang, how do we confirm this?
- NuSkooler 8y agoThere's a fairly interesting write up on TempleOS here: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/ http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
- bifrost 8y agoI was very sad to hear about this. Terry always had a special place in my heart and I'm sad to hear of his passing. I don't think I'll ever forget him.
- m1573rp34130dy 8y agoDo not stand at my grave and weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sun on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circling flight. I am the soft star-shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
- Sadkov 8y agoGodspeed, Terry! You was crazily talented and I will miss you :'(
- RickSanchez2600 8y agoSad if true, a troll on us if not true.
- tfolbrecht 8y agousermod -a -G Heaven Terry