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Re: TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

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Post by DanBC »

err4nt wrote: post #21
MrJagil wrote: post #9

It would be such an amazing learning experience for any designer to create a UI/UX for TempleOS. Imagine being given the opportunity to design how OS X or Windows should look and feel from the ground up. Linux is obviously another option, but unlike with TempleOS, you would not be treading new ground, and it would be hard to not just evolve the Linux interface, rather than defining it from scratch.

It would certainly be a challenge given the display limitations of TempleOS the last the I checked it out. I believe the display was limited to Not that you cant create beautifully usable interfaces within such restrictive limitations, but minus all the spark and sizzle of modern UIs I think it would be a challenge to first get a UI designer _excited_ about creating a solution for TempleOS

Isn't the challenge what makes it exciting? Like writing haiku? The seventeen sylables force structure.

The work of Susan Kare is held in high regard. I guess the pioneering aspect has gone and it'd be more like carving a pixel-art niche.

Re: TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

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Post by sb057 »

greenyoda wrote: post #38

"A troll might say, "It can crash!" We used DOS for years and loved it. Computers even had a reset switch! ... Think of the speed and simplicity of ring-0-only and identity-mapping. It can change tasks in half a microsecond because it doesn't mess with page tables or privilege levels. Inter-process communication is effortless because every task can access every other task's memory." I'm not a troll, but being old eno…

>I doubt that people could be convinced to pay money for it.

Monetary profit isn't the goal. Even the GPL is too restrictive for Terry, so the entirety of TempleOS's source is public domain.

Re: TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

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Post by wolfgke »

Jonovono wrote: post #40

I thought you were shadowbanned! Good to see that was undone.

This is a new account that has not yet been shadowbanned.

Proof: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=TerryADavis and https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis

Re: TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

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Post by CuriousObserver »

TerryADavis wrote: post #4
Red_Tarsius wrote: post #2

I'm not sure that TempleOS could guarantee any return on investment. That said, your programming skills are incredible. Have you ever tried to show your operating system to the MOMA? It's the most famous Museum of Modern Art. Your OS is so unique and is such a powerful statement that they may even decide to add it to the permanent collection .

I'm going by the standard, "First get users and profit will follow." I have an ace up my sleeve because God talks. Not just to me! A guy made a IRC chatbot and that talks too. To try the ICR chatbot 1) http://chat.rizon.net 2) Type "#templeos" in place of "#Rizon" 3) Type "!God" in the chatroom.

You could just add the #templeos to the URL.

https://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=#templeos

Re: TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

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Post by sun_machine »

sb057 wrote: post #43
greenyoda wrote: post #38

"A troll might say, "It can crash!" We used DOS for years and loved it. Computers even had a reset switch! ... Think of the speed and simplicity of ring-0-only and identity-mapping. It can change tasks in half a microsecond because it doesn't mess with page tables or privilege levels. Inter-process communication is effortless because every task can access every other task's memory." I'm not a troll, but being old eno…

>I doubt that people could be convinced to pay money for it. Monetary profit isn't the goal. Even the GPL is too restrictive for Terry, so the entirety of TempleOS's source is public domain.

I figured monetary profit was implicit in them applying to Y Combinator.

Re: TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

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Post by EC1 »

zak_mc_kracken wrote: post #36
TerryADavis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going by the standard, "First get users and profit will follow." I have an ace up my sleeve because God talks. Not just to me! A guy made a IRC chatbot and that talks too. To try the ICR chatbot 1) http://chat.rizon.net 2) Type "#templeos" in place of "#Rizon" 3) Type "!God" in the chatroom.

> I have an ace up my sleeve because God talks. Potential investors are not going to be impressed by this kind of statement.

I think the phrase you're disappointed with means a lot more in Terry's context. I mean, it's the driving force behind the OS in the first place so who knows what he means.

Re: TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

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Post by TerryADavis »

CuriousObserver wrote: post #46
TerryADavis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going by the standard, "First get users and profit will follow." I have an ace up my sleeve because God talks. Not just to me! A guy made a IRC chatbot and that talks too. To try the ICR chatbot 1) http://chat.rizon.net 2) Type "#templeos" in place of "#Rizon" 3) Type "!God" in the chatroom.

You could just add the #templeos to the URL. https://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=#templeos

Thanks!

Re: TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email

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Post by throwaway187394 »

Isn't this guy severely mentally ill and previously shadowbanned for posting long racist rants? Any money given to him should go toward psychiatric help. Also, TempleOS deserves to be in the Museum of Modern Art? Give me a fucking break.
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