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Please don't insult yourself by writing 'not great' on things that you wrote. You know it's not great, I know it's not great, but you made an effort and have a

Please don't insult yourself by writing 'not great' on things that you wrote. You know it's not great, I know it's not great, but you made an effort and have a basic workable system. Don't kid yourself, and don't put yourself down. Not everyone can be a 'great programmer'. If there are maybe 20 great programmers in the world that you look up to, there are 200,000 programmers who are average at best. So don't compare your code to the top 0.01% - no way any of us can be that good.

mosselman 13y ago
You are completely right. It is the same with giving discounts on products or services, you devaluate what you are providing. I wouldn't even know where to get started on building an OS, so I think this is pretty awesome. Some 'for dummies' step by steps on getting this to run would be great :).
- sillysaurus2 13y ago
  I wouldn't even know where to get started on building an OS http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/book-rev7.pdf http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/book-rev7.pdf
  - eli_gottlieb 13y ago
    At least provide the link to the full course where people can work through the labs! http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/ http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/ I took Dan Tzafrir's version of this course at Technion last semester. Best. Course. Ever!
    - mosselman 13y ago
      Thanks guys.
rsync 13y ago
Please, please say that you also wrote a simple flight simulator for your OS but you're kind of ashamed at the quality of it ...[1] [1] http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son.. http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son.... .... "bro i think you can be proud of the flight simulator you wrote for the operating system you also wrote"
dandelany 13y ago
Agreed, unfortunately posting this with just "check out this basic OS I wrote" would yield a ton of flamey comments like "WTF, why would I use this instead of Ubuntu?! Lame."

mosselman 13y ago

You are completely right. It is the same with giving discounts on products or services, you devaluate what you are providing. I wouldn't even know where to get started on building an OS, so I think this is pretty awesome. Some 'for dummies' step by steps on getting this to run would be great :).

sillysaurus2 13y ago
I wouldn't even know where to get started on building an OS http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/book-rev7.pdf http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/book-rev7.pdf
- eli_gottlieb 13y ago
  At least provide the link to the full course where people can work through the labs! http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/ http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/ I took Dan Tzafrir's version of this course at Technion last semester. Best. Course. Ever!
  - mosselman 13y ago
    Thanks guys.

rsync 13y ago

Please, please say that you also wrote a simple flight simulator for your OS but you're kind of ashamed at the quality of it ...[1] [1] http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son.. http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son.... .... "bro i think you can be proud of the flight simulator you wrote for the operating system you also wrote"

dandelany 13y ago

Agreed, unfortunately posting this with just "check out this basic OS I wrote" would yield a ton of flamey comments like "WTF, why would I use this instead of Ubuntu?! Lame."