God's Lonely Programmer

Gracana wrote: post #3

> As an undergrad he’d been hired at Ticketmaster to program operating systems. Ticketmaster, huh! Does anyone know anything about what they were working on?

Maybe he meant operating systems for automated ticket kiosks.

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by eli » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

Delmania wrote: post #5

Terry is technically brilliant, but I just don't understand TempleOS. I can't tell if he's serious, or it's a tongue in cheek concept.

I do not think it's a joke.

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by ludamad » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 5:57 PM UTC

Delmania wrote: post #5

Terry is technically brilliant, but I just don't understand TempleOS. I can't tell if he's serious, or it's a tongue in cheek concept.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Strategy.html#l1 User interface aside, it's pretty serious work.

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by danielweber » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 5:59 PM UTC

Something about that webpage is making my computer slow to a crawl.

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by softdev12 » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 6:00 PM UTC

danielweber wrote: post #9

Something about that webpage is making my computer slow to a crawl.

Same here. It must be overloaded from HN.