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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

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Post by usrusr »

crististm wrote: post #57
terminalcommand wrote: post #29

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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.

Would be, if English had been designed by people fluent in Mandarin. If you know Scheme and imagine a curly C-style alternative syntax for it, you basically end up with early Javascript.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by b6 »

krapp wrote: post #43
kentiko wrote: post #30

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It blows my mind that a mental ill person is ending up homeless like this. Society should take care of theses cases.

Unfortunately, he was born into a society that would prefer the mentally ill take care of themselves.

I can't lay that much blame on society. Have you tried to take care of a mentally ill person? It's common for them to make it extremely difficult. Schizophrenia often seems to cause its sufferers to be absolutely certain they are not mentally ill at all. I've walked around for hours looking for a mentally ill woman to give her a care package, only to be attacked by her a few days afterward.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by fb03 »

Putting aside all the "mental illness/nutjob" talks that everyone likes to focus on so much, I would just wish that someone somehow would be able to connect with him and channel his genius (it is clear that he is quite good at what he does) into some project with a proper objective and guidance.

Bram Cohen has Asperger's and he could create BitTorrent which is widely used. I wonder if Terry Davis would create some game changer stuff as well if he had better support....

It is a sad situation.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by zichy »

reeteshv wrote: post #75
humanrebar wrote: post #64

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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.

What are you talking about? Do you grasp the basic difference between a security vulnerability and a mentally ill homeless person?

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by grawprog »

I've read through a lot of Terry's posts on 8chan and his rants that got him banned from a few websites. He's totally fucked but a genius. I've tried TempleOS. It made my brain hurt to look at it and it really wasn't intuitive in any way at all. I like the concept of the OS, a full OS where everything is in the same memory space. But, it's way too annoying to really play with anything in TempleOS.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by WillReplyfFood »

anc84 wrote: post #66
tscs37 wrote: post #6

The 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.

Yeah, competition is only good if i can participate in it.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by WillReplyfFood »

thomasz wrote: post #41
galfarragem wrote: post #5

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.

The one guy is followed by the government and writes a book about it. The other guy is followed by the goverment and runs. Both are delusional. All thats missing is the interrupt to reality.
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