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

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

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Post by guylhem »

TempleOS is impressive. The only thing I could say after watching the youtube presentations was "wow". I see great value in it, at least as a teaching tool - a bit like Minix.

But there's more to it. Another potential use would be for hardware intensive tasks, when you want to squeeze the last bit of juice you have. Maybe for nodes doing distributed computation where GPU are not the solution, to remove the cruft of a full OS. The compiler would have to be quite optimized too, and some network features would be needed. Then there are some scaling issues, but still, if TempleOS could be say 10 to 20% more efficient than a standard Linux, there could be a usecase. Even for a smaller percentage, I believe some guys in finance would like that advantage for high-frequency trading.

I will follow your progress with great interest. Best of luck!

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

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Post by joshmn »

throwaway187394 wrote: post #50

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.

Some people have broken legs. Some people have diabetes. Some people have cancer. Terry has a mental disadvantage. Come off your throwaway and say this if you really want to rip on Terry.

Terry, ignore the hate as you've done in this thread so far. There will be a lot of naysayers, and that's okay. You're an incredible, incredible talent.

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

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Post by kindofanger »

username223 wrote: post #20
NicoJuicy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[16:16] == GodBot [~GodBot@Rizon-72C38B9D.upc-h.chello.nl] has quit [Excess Flood] The godbot is down, but has revived! [16:18] == GodBot [~GodBot@Rizon-C7BBB69E.lv.lv.cox.net] has joined #templeos

"Excess Flood?" I thought He promised Noah not to do that again.

No. 2nd coming is intense.

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

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Post by dethstar »

sun_machine wrote: post #47
sb057 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

Like someone else has said in this thread. YC accepts non profits.

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

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Post by kindofanger »

throwaway187394 wrote: post #50

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.

a number of historically productive geniuses had schizophrenia, as well as other mental illnesses.

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

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Post by guylhem »

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.

Having inspiration, whether from any ideal or from God, is what makes one burn the midnight oil, and design something out of the ordinary.

It increases not just efficiency but something else harder to define, something that could be said to be beauty. It makes the result stand out as a something special, where all the parts have a purpose and are arranged in just the right way. Read http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb to get a better idea of this something:

djb’s programs are some of the greatest works of beauty to be comprehended by the human mind. As with great art, the outline of the code is somehow visually pleasing — there is balance and rhythm and meter that rivals even the best typography. As with great poetry, every character counts — every single one is there because it needs to be. But these programs are not just for being seen or read — like a graceful dancer, they move! And not just as a single dancer either, but a whole choreographed number — processes splitting and moving and recombining at great speeds, around and around again.

But, unlike a dance, this movement has a purpose. They accomplish things that need accomplishing — they find your websites, they ferry your email from place to place. In the most fantastic movies, the routing and sorting of the post office is imagined as a giant endless choreographed dance number.

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

#59

Post by jlebrech »

jlebrech wrote: post #52

Have you tried making the operating systems then use in the movies? It looks like the classic hacker's OS. Maybe you could sell forks of it to hollywood.

Your company could also create UIs in computer games like in Deux Ex or system shock.

Or what about repackaging it as a Retro Game Engine, to compete with Unity or Unreal but on the other end of the spectrum.

Think of GOG.com using it instead of DOSbox for games made for it.

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