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I wrote a code editor in C and now I'm a changed man
- throw20251220 11mo ago[flagged]
- spankibalt 11mo agoThe Old Man and the C But who is Terry Davis? Some sort of bird fancier?
- IshKebab 11mo agoHe 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.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
- heliumtera 11mo agoAnd also a genius. All you said was true, but templeOS is a masterpiece.
- hyperhello 11mo agoHow 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?
- krackers 11mo agohttp://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/ http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
- hyperhello 11mo agoThank you. It looks like the inventions were mothered by necessities of having one developer and one user.
- eska 11mo agoThere 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 11mo agoOr, with a little more empathy: he was suffering from schizophrenia.
- tptacek 11mo agoA 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 11mo 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 11mo agoTerry 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 11mo agoSomebody should write a book or make a movie about Terry. It’s a very modern, very human story.
- abnercoimbre 11mo agoCrazy that you were downvoted. Oh well, the submission's flagged anyway.
- guffer 11mo ago[flagged]
- sshine 11mo 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.
- rexpop 11mo agoEven if it's satire, it's still creepy.
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