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Didn't Terry just die recently?

by analognoise 8y ago

LeoPanthera 8y ago
No one seems to know for sure. There was a rumor but no proof.
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skissane 8y ago
I think, for all that Terry has done with TempleOS, I'm sure he could have done a lot lot more if he didn't have his mental health issues holding him back. I really hope that one day if he could get a bit better he could do some really wonderful things. If it is true that he has passed away, that is sad – not just sad in the sense that it is always sad when someone dies, but sad that this possibility would then be forever foreclosed.
- jdswain 8y ago
  But maybe if he didn't have those same issues he would have never started TempleOS in the first place. It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider writing a complete operating system on your own, and yet he is one of the very very few people that have succeeded at it.
  - LeoPanthera 8y ago
    The OS was started before he had significant health problem. The religious theme was applied to it later.
  - asveikau 8y ago
    > It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider writing a complete operating system on your own This is not true. In fact, it is in some sense an affirmation of the reality that the pieces beneath your high-level software are approachable by mortals and not magic. I used to hack on one just for fun. The difficulty is highly overestimated by some folks here. There are a lot of topics you could go into very deeply and each of these can turn out to be a huge time sink, and the lack of time is the main reason I stopped. Some of my favorite down-the-rabbit-hole sub-topics were filesystems, synchronization, and message passing for a micro-kernel. Each of these could be someone's full time job but they are approachable.
shawn 8y ago
He might have just been arrested. https://oilcitywyo.com/crime/2018/08/30/recent-arrests-8-30-18/ https://oilcitywyo.com/crime/2018/08/30/recent-arrests-8-30-... Someone else said he wasn't in wy though.
throwaway66666 8y ago
"Thou cannot kill God" - Ecclesiastes 640, verse 480 It sadly seems so, but it has not been confirmed. What is weird is that his site used to have a donations button - https://archive.fo/ltjBH https://archive.fo/ltjBH Then someone changed it to suggest donations to charities in honor of his passing - https://archive.fo/M8Iut https://archive.fo/M8Iut And now it's completely removed - https://www.templeos.org/ https://www.templeos.org/
- nerflad 8y ago
  Might just be the slashdot effect, but his site is currently down.

Didn't Terry just die recently?

LeoPanthera 8y ago

No one seems to know for sure. There was a rumor but no proof.

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skissane 8y ago

I think, for all that Terry has done with TempleOS, I'm sure he could have done a lot lot more if he didn't have his mental health issues holding him back. I really hope that one day if he could get a bit better he could do some really wonderful things. If it is true that he has passed away, that is sad – not just sad in the sense that it is always sad when someone dies, but sad that this possibility would then be forever foreclosed.

jdswain 8y ago
But maybe if he didn't have those same issues he would have never started TempleOS in the first place. It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider writing a complete operating system on your own, and yet he is one of the very very few people that have succeeded at it.
- LeoPanthera 8y ago
  The OS was started before he had significant health problem. The religious theme was applied to it later.
- asveikau 8y ago
  > It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider writing a complete operating system on your own This is not true. In fact, it is in some sense an affirmation of the reality that the pieces beneath your high-level software are approachable by mortals and not magic. I used to hack on one just for fun. The difficulty is highly overestimated by some folks here. There are a lot of topics you could go into very deeply and each of these can turn out to be a huge time sink, and the lack of time is the main reason I stopped. Some of my favorite down-the-rabbit-hole sub-topics were filesystems, synchronization, and message passing for a micro-kernel. Each of these could be someone's full time job but they are approachable.

shawn 8y ago

He might have just been arrested. https://oilcitywyo.com/crime/2018/08/30/recent-arrests-8-30-18/ https://oilcitywyo.com/crime/2018/08/30/recent-arrests-8-30-... Someone else said he wasn't in wy though.

throwaway66666 8y ago

"Thou cannot kill God" - Ecclesiastes 640, verse 480 It sadly seems so, but it has not been confirmed. What is weird is that his site used to have a donations button - https://archive.fo/ltjBH https://archive.fo/ltjBH Then someone changed it to suggest donations to charities in honor of his passing - https://archive.fo/M8Iut https://archive.fo/M8Iut And now it's completely removed - https://www.templeos.org/ https://www.templeos.org/

nerflad 8y ago
Might just be the slashdot effect, but his site is currently down.