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I don't even... is this some kind of joke? The website reads like a Christian version of the timecube website.
by orclev 13y ago
I don't even... is this some kind of joke? The website reads like a Christian version of the timecube website.
- trafficlight 13y agoNo joke. It's this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoAnd this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS And this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS And he may have another ID for all I know.
- fosap 13y agoBut the OS is real. The author is indeed strange. Some say he is schizophrenic.
- meowface 13y agoThe author has some mental issues of some kind. He is a great programmer, though, and his work shouldn't be discounted just because he's a bit off.
- noir_lord 13y agoA bit off, that's like saying Stalin had the odd off day or Machiavelli was a tad manipulative. LoseThos is balls to the wall flat out crazy.
- mkr-hn 13y agoI often start thinking the same of people on HN, but I still listen for those occasions when they say something interesting.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoIt's interesting that he's done more actual work than most of us. I would imagine he spends most of his time working on the OS rather than interacting with people. Kind of puts into perspective how productive we could be... And also how useless some forms of productivity are.
- munin 13y agohas he? making a booting from metal OS is a semester long undergraduate project, and this person has been working on it for way longer than that. in a semester, university programs expect you to write a kernel that boots to a shell with virtual memory management and multi-tasking. templeos doesn't even have virtual memory management.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoMost universities let most programmers avoid doing all of that by themselves, which is probably the most impressive part of this project.
- X-Istence 13y agoHe doesn't want virtual memory management... the guy wrote his own just in time compiler that compiles and runs programs on the fly...
- jevinskie 13y agoTempleOS doesn't want nor need VMM. That is what static analysis and being a "Real Programmer" ;-) is for.
- eli 13y agoThat's not very nice.
- Fargren 13y agoAbout Machievelli: The Prince was (proably) a sarcastic piece[0], denoting the things he saw politicians doing and he thought should not be done. It's a shame that he's remembered as though it was an instruction manual. [0]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince#Interpretation_of_The_Prince_as_political_satire_or_as_deceit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince#Interpretation_of_Th...
- noir_lord 13y agoI read The Prince when I was a lot younger, fascinating book.
- nemof 13y agoPlease be a bit more respectful of peoples mental health issues.
- AccordionGuy 13y agoI knew I wouldn't be the only person to think, "Oh my, it's Timecube all over again..."