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Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by Torn »

I remember the somethingawful.com thread where someone tried to install his operating system. It got real crazy real fast.

There was a HN thread here discussing it, and the top comments were people rightfully suggesting the guy needs serious mental help, not derision. The suggestion he had schizophrenia was thrown around a lot.

Following the rabbit hole from 2012, it seems he was banned from SA, and shadowbanned here on HN, but are visible if you turn on 'showdead' in your profile options: http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son...

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by yzzxy »

I wonder if there is something the programming community could do to help him. I'm not sure what this could entail, but I'd hope there are people who would be willing to talk with him about his interests or attempt to set up some kind of assisted employment situation - he is by all accounts a very talented engineer.

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by gojomo »

jason_slack wrote: post #19
kelvin0 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since you seem to be on a first name basis with him, can you tell us more about him? His work, aspirations?

I dont know him, I just know his name. I think we all know him here as Terry.

In fact his chosen name here is his project name, 'TempleOS':

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS

It was previously 'losethos', when that was his project's name:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by jesuslop »

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 skimmed at the source and it had functionality enough to be called an OS, boot sector, drivers, filesystem, etc all of great simplicity in the good sense.

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by GuiA »

yzzxy wrote: post #22

I wonder if there is something the programming community could do to help him. I'm not sure what this could entail, but I'd hope there are people who would be willing to talk with him about his interests or attempt to set up some kind of assisted employment situation - he is by all accounts a very talented engineer.

Why are you under the impression that he is in need of help? It seems to me that he has no problem finding outlets to talk about his interests, and that he doesn't seem to desire assisted employment.

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by Amezarak »

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 don't think it's a joke. Terry has written before that he made many of the design decisions because he wanted it to be a simple OS anyone could tinker with and learn from, like he did from the computers available when he was younger.

Re: God's Lonely Programmer

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Post by euphemize »

From the TempleOS: AfterEgypt video[1]:

"Now you're supposed to do an offering before you talk to God. [...] just get conversation, maybe being witty and charming - or praise - like 'praise god for sandcastles and snowmen and bubbles and popcorn'...hum, I'm gonna praise him for something new, which is isotopes! Like you have Carbon-14 and stuff like that. I think that's pretty cool. Didn't have to be that way, maybe...Ok here we go!"

Fascinating.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzhRYGm_b9A

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