TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by supermatt » Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 5:09 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #79

supermatt wrote: post #59

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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.

He appears to be living on a mattress in a family car (for the last 3 months). I think he’s definitely in that “situation”, with severe mental issues to boot.

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

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Post by se30b » Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

Does anyone have info about his current status? He has not updated his site since Dec 15.

As far as the van thing goes, he wasn't really homeless. He went to his parents house frequently and he could live there but chooses to live mostly in his van because he likes it.

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

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Post by wolfgke » Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 11:45 PM UTC

mrguyorama wrote: post #125

WillReplyfFood wrote: post #92

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Why not? What is so bad about reminding people of the good that could come from this, if it were not for the missing pieces.

Terry has created an interesting project DESPITE his illness, not BECAUSE of it. It's very likely templeOS could be even greater without it. I've experienced personal projects being helped and hindered by mental issues and obsessions. Mental illness often causes struggles in other parts of life. How much more effort could an artist (or engineer, anyone can build and create), devote to their work if they didn't have t…

> Terry has created an interesting project DESPITE his illness, not BECAUSE of it.

I disagree. Were it not for God's mission to fulfill, I believe Terry would not work day and night on it.

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

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Post by kazinator » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:23 AM UTC

crististm wrote: post #55

sharpneli wrote: post #10

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That's like saying "I don't have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I'm not affected by the weaknesses in locks."

This is not the first OS without kernel/userspace isolation. LISP machines for example used virtual memory but not process isolation. In fact it was a top advertised feature that you could get your hands on any piece of data and code running on the system at any time.

We generally speak about the first OS with that isolation; of course early OSs were without it.