What the hell is that top comment on the YouTube? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DepFpVt-mIo )
It's a meme. Google "defend kebab" for more info.
As for why it's there? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mega Man for TempleOS
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Look here's the deal with him. The man is unwell. What do you have to gain from digging down rabbit holes like this? In regards to Terry I have taken a "if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything" policy. Every once in a while, if you like his work send him a note telling him so. Don't endeavor to increase his suffering. The same fate may await any of us.
I'm with you cmdrfred.
I don't understand why anyone would do these things.
Terry wrote an entire OS+Bootloader, dozens of remarkable apps for it, the toolchain for the custom programming language it's written in (which he also created) by himself.
The scale of that achievement boggles my mind. There's no -lreadline anywhere there.. No curses.. No gcc. No copy/pasting phkmalloc and so on.
Absolutely nothing that he didn't write himself.
I'm stunned by his achievement.
And yet we're googling for videos where he's manic for laughs?
Have some fucking respect.
If you can't do that then have the manners to keep silent.
This person achieved more than any developer I'm aware of and none of us are in position to mock him.
Shame on those who are trying to.
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#43"God's favorite game is Donkey Kong."
Surely the best quote of all time.
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[I've decided to remove this comment.]
I don't know why I'm doing this, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YokNW7tIs (Fairly obviously NSFW or the readily-offended if you have the sound on.)
Here's the thing: Sometimes there are people who are exceptionally talented in a given field, yet suffer from a serious illness or disability. The symptoms can be apparent in their physique (such as Stephen Hawking), or in their mind (such as Terry Davis). I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person, but I would encourage those who criticise Terry for the highly unfortunate way his illness manifests itself to try to find compassion for the man, not ridicule.
I'm willing to bet pretty good money that less than 1% of people on HN, and the software development industry in general, could achieve the technical feats on the level of what Terry has done. In fact it's probably considerably fewer than that. Here's a guy who's built an entire platform from scratch, including kernel, development tools, user interface, and applications. While there are obvious flaws (such as the visual appearance and lack of memory protection), some of the other design decisions like presentation of documentation and the way different parts of the system integrate with each other put mainstream operating systems to shame.
We should be emphasising Terry's technical work, not the symptoms of his debilitating illness.
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Can I ask why you decided to do this rather than learning on a more conventional platform?
I was kind of interested in writing something for the temple (well, okay, I spent a bored afternoon contemplating giving it a go and half heartedly booting vms and reading code ....) While I can't answer for the OP, my motivation was specifically that this is kind of an alien environment and the challenge involved in even getting to hello world would definately have seen me walk away at the end the better for the exp…
"Isn't it cool that we don't always do things for the money?" Yes, it really is. Glad you had fun ;)
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I don't know why I'm doing this, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YokNW7tIs (Fairly obviously NSFW or the readily-offended if you have the sound on.)
Here's the thing: Sometimes there are people who are exceptionally talented in a given field, yet suffer from a serious illness or disability. The symptoms can be apparent in their physique (such as Stephen Hawking), or in their mind (such as Terry Davis). I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person, but I would encourage…
I've always felt sad that Terry A. Davis doesn't seem to have a very strong support system (family, friends, children, etc.). There are other brilliant people that have been diagnosed with similar illnesses (Daniel Johnston[0] comes to mind) that were able to retain their public dignity while still doing fantastic work.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know why I'm doing this, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YokNW7tIs (Fairly obviously NSFW or the readily-offended if you have the sound on.)
Here's the thing: Sometimes there are people who are exceptionally talented in a given field, yet suffer from a serious illness or disability. The symptoms can be apparent in their physique (such as Stephen Hawking), or in their mind (such as Terry Davis). I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person, but I would encourage…
> I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person
I don't judge mania, or schizophrenia. But at what point do you stop trying to separate "the person" from the things they believe and say? He's a schizophrenic, and I can't hold that against him. But a racist, homophobic, antisemitic schizophrenic is just an asshole with a regrettable mental illness.
A quote from the "poor misunderstood" genius:
The IRA beat Sherlock Holmes with the grace of God. Ghandi was a faggot. God said boys should be taught military things.
Reputation is worth more than gold. Niggers have a reputation -- no fathers. Irish have a reputation. Germans have a reputation. Attacker has the advantage. Jews have a reputation. God said the French once stood for character. (Code of Chivalry) Ironic. I guess Jews did, too. Woah! God is boss. Too bad the Jews were cowards and didn't assassinate NAZI's.
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#494chan's /g/ is especially obsessed with TempleOS and Terry's livestreams; there's typically a /tosg/ thread somewhere on the front page.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's the thing: Sometimes there are people who are exceptionally talented in a given field, yet suffer from a serious illness or disability. The symptoms can be apparent in their physique (such as Stephen Hawking), or in their mind (such as Terry Davis). I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person, but I would encourage…
I've always felt sad that Terry A. Davis doesn't seem to have a very strong support system (family, friends, children, etc.). There are other brilliant people that have been diagnosed with similar illnesses (Daniel Johnston[0] comes to mind) that were able to retain their public dignity while still doing fantastic work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Johnston
With dignity is a way of treating people. Whether I do so or not says something about me, not the other person.