In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
No, this what a real schizophrenic is. It's a terrible disease that should not be romanticized in any way.
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TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
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#72In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
No, this what a real schizophrenic is. It's a terrible disease that should not be romanticized in any way.
Are you implying he is not an artist because he is schizophrenic?
An artist is one who creates art, and having used TempleOS I assure you it is among the finest.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#73In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
No, this what a real schizophrenic is. It's a terrible disease that should not be romanticized in any way.
People have problems. You have problems, and so do I.
I think we can romanticize Terry's work while also keeping his condition in mind. They're separable, like a gaussian blur.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#74When 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.
Some people with mental illness reject medical help.
At that point it can be hard to force them to have treatment against their will. This is for good reason - forced psychiatric treatment has been abused before. Forcing someone to have treatment against their will is an interference with their human rights. We tolerate that if they pose a risk of serious harm to other people[1] or to themselves.
Another reason we don't just scoop homeless people off the street and forcibly medicate them is that treatment for psychosis isn't particuarly great - it's not effective for some people and the medications carry a range of severe side effects.
The best thing we can do is provide correctly funded "assertive outreach teams". Here's a description of one assertive outreach worker's day: https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/views-from-th...
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That paragraph is prefaced by the definition of the word Drama.
If we want to avoid drama, we should stop sharing a significant number of recent events, e.g. the Meltdown and Spectre drama, launches, touchdowns and failures of SpaceX, a majority of anti-Google comments, etc.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you mean? TempleOS is undoubtably a pretty interesting achievement, both in the artistic and technological sense - but Terry has serious mental issues, and we shouldn't overlook them as "oh, that's just how artists are".
In fact, if you do a careful study of history, many of the best artists have "serious mental issues". The question is, how do we define "serious mental issues" and "art"? I don't think its a coincidence that people with off-the-charts creativity are mentally different than most other people. If your thought process is that far removed from others in regards to art ("creativity"), then it only stands to reason that yo…
I think, in part, it comes down to socioeconomic status.
Somebody from a wealthy background who has mental health issues might be able to afford to live in an unconventional way, supported by the people around them, whereas somebody from a poor background is going to end up living on the street when those same issues prevent them from holding down a job and paying the bills.
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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…
Saying that JS has roots in Scheme is like saying English has roots in Chinese.
From http://speakingjs.com/es5/ch04.html
"In 1995, Netscape hired Brendan Eich with the promise of letting him implement Scheme (a Lisp dialect) in the browser."
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Javascript is a terrible language.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#79Depending 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..
If you have the money, time and experience to invest 7 months (in this particular case) into converting it, then yeah. I think you will find 90% of van/truck dwellers have a very different situation to that.
I'm sure this man can crack a bit of mechanics and power electronics, probably not harder than writing an OS, also I said people could help.
Now for the majority of people in such need, sure it's hard, and I wish we could turn their situation in a similar manner.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#80It's actually quite worse than that. Terry is kind of going through a "teenager" phase it appears.
Apparently he left his parents house and started living in his car and his family went to visit him unannounced. There was some kind of altercation (probably his family trying to physically get him back) and the authorities were called because of a disturbance and he was charged with "Battery" in Las Vegas. He plead guilty to some minor charges. During the same time he's been seen with what some are describing a hooker.
Unfortunately he also has an ongoing fascination with some famous YouTuber and predators/trolls are taking advantage of him by posing as her to get him to send naked photos =(
The Terry Davis story gets crazier every day and I have a lot of sympathy for him. It upsets me to see the some areas of the Internet exploit him for the whole "CIA" thing.
EDIT - A new development he was arrested in Arizona on the 27th of December for property damage? Get well soon, Terry.