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This guy is fascinating. Apparently he is building an operating system based on directives he received from God. Also there is a program called After Egypt wh
by joshontheweb 11y ago
This guy is fascinating. Apparently he is building an operating system based on directives he received from God. Also there is a program called After Egypt which is a game he made based on the story of Moses. In this game you can go speak with God and Terry regards this program as an oracle of sorts. He speaks freely about God's thoughts and reactions to his efforts in his videos.
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- sudioStudio64 11y agoEDIT: I started to write something snarky about this guy...I can't. He obviously has a mental illness. He is without a doubt one of the most hardcore C programmers I have ever seen. I will say that the oracle part of his OS is a random text generator that he interprets as coded messages from god. At least that is what I read in an interview.
- joshontheweb 11y agoYeah, it either spits out random text or random bible passages.
- thechao 11y agoIt's not C. It's a C-like language that he designed (and implemented) by himself. The embedded (rendered) resource references are my favorite part.
- sudioStudio64 11y agoYeah, that's super cool.
- fit2rule 11y agoCan you explain what an embedded (rendered) resource reference is, or maybe point to some code in TempleOS that demonstrates it?
- serf 11y agoI think he is referring to the game demonstrated @ 11 minutes in the linked video that uses 3d models which appear to be embedded within the source code.
- reagency 11y agoSort of like how Scala allows XML as an object literal format, but less wacky.
- akhilcacharya 11y agoHuh! I did not know that - could this be used for JSX rendering on the server side?
- reagency 11y agoSort of like how Scala allows XML as an object literal format, but less wacky.
- thechao 11y agoLike a Word document---mixed text, images, etc.
- bitwize 11y agoHe seems to interpret "praising bubbles, popcorn, and sand castles" and other acts of goodwill as feeding entropy to God, who will in turn yield more meaningful responses through the RNG as a reward. Very, very strange, interesting cosmology he has.
- wz1000 11y agoIndeed. I keep showdead on solely so that I can see his comments.
- founderling 11y agoIf anybody wonders, this seems to be his account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TerryADavis I have been following his coding for quite a while and I think it is really impressive.