This is the guy King Crimson was talking about.
Nothing he's got, he really needs?
TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
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Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#62Let's drop homeboy some cash (top of page):
http://www.templeos.org
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#63TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…
Are you surprised? Would God really instruct his prophet Terry to write something less than perfect?
This comment seems to be making fun of someone's mental illness.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#64If you want to draw attention to a schizophrenic person who needs help, maybe linking /r/Drama is the wrong way.
IMHO, this attitude is akin to "throwing the baby out with the bath water". I'm sure the readerships of HN & Reddit are not mutually exclusive. Tomorrow, someone will object to linking a WSJ article as it's a conservative newspaper. Then, somebody else will object against The Guardian for it being too left-leaning.
From the /r/drama sidebar:
"Do your part to keep our community healthy by blowing everything out of proportion and making literally everything as dramatic as possible."
I think it's fair to consider /r/drama an especially bad place to originate a story about someone who needs help.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#65When I googled I found more details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_crea... > Despite the mean spirited attention he gets, he does have a following of people who seem to genuinly feel for him, and want to do nice things for him. One thing his followers did which at least seemed well intentioned was buying him a drum set. Terry likes to use drum sticks, but didn't have a set, so a gofundm…
It blows my mind that a mental ill person is ending up homeless like this. Society should take care of theses cases.
Do you think that mental health treatment should just be made available for free, or that people should be forced to use it as well?
Because the problem with the former is that people with mental health issues will likely not cooperate.
And the problem with the latter is that forced medical treatment because someone's mind doesn't work the way you think it should is a very very dark thing to start doing...
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#66The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space. For anyone who hasn't, I recommend to watch his videos on TempleOS (there are a lot of hymn videos or ranting videos, you can ignore those), they are a genuinely interesting perspective into OS Development.
With all due respect (honestly), he has quite extrem mental issue and thus you should not compare his work ethos to healthy people.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person to completely understand? I think the answer to this is yes. But at the same time, I think we're kind of messing up because children today don't have the same kind of systems a lot of us grew up with -- ones that boot instantly into programming consoles with easy ways to make sounds and draw graphics. Terry's vision to create a modern system like that is deeply…
The console of today's youth is in the browsers. Any kid can open the developer's console and start typing JavaScript, the results are displayed immediately on the screen. Considering that JavaScript has it's roots in Scheme, it is a good language for kids to experiment on. For learning lower level constructs maybe Webassembly will help the future generations. The interested kids can also purchase raspberry pi s and…
Javascript is a terrible language for children to start with.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#68When I googled I found more details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_crea... > Despite the mean spirited attention he gets, he does have a following of people who seem to genuinly feel for him, and want to do nice things for him. One thing his followers did which at least seemed well intentioned was buying him a drum set. Terry likes to use drum sticks, but didn't have a set, so a gofundm…
Sad. I wonder if the drum kit was a factor.
In getting evicted? Yeah, one suspects. Drums are truly thoughtless presents for anyone of diminished capacity. I mean, it's funny to get a drum for my brother's toddler, but my brother can just throw the damn thing away at some point. I guess we should be happy there wasn't a kickstarter for a box full of fireworks?
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#69Depending on "truck" it can be pretty alright. See : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UeVsHmKAFA (EV mod of VW kombi) Make a kickstarter to fund his future green life. ps: for some weird reason I expected him to look like anderson cooper..
From the “van dance” video, appears he has a Dodge Carivan.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#70I know he's perhaps not mentally stable, but after all. He has problems and he does some amazing things. Perhaps consider donating on top of his page: http://www.templeos.org/ ( paypal).
Just donated 5$/month, will keep it up for a year at least. PayPal transactions take a bit of time to go through -- the hardest part was filling out the details :(
I really don't have the resources to arbitrarily afford charity, but fuck it -- I spend more money on coffee in a month and it's been too cold to wander around for a while here. It must feel really awful to some people who make 6 figure salaries to part with just a little money to a person who is both talented and likely lived in agony all his life. Maybe some people can start acting like the ubermensch they pretend to be from their libertarian ideology.