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I don't even... is this some kind of joke? The website reads like a Christian version of the timecube website.

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The author has some mental issues of some kind.

He is a great programmer, though, and his work shouldn't be discounted just because he's a bit off.

A bit off, that's like saying Stalin had the odd off day or Machiavelli was a tad manipulative.

LoseThos is balls to the wall flat out crazy.

I often start thinking the same of people on HN, but I still listen for those occasions when they say something interesting.

It's interesting that he's done more actual work than most of us. I would imagine he spends most of his time working on the OS rather than interacting with people. Kind of puts into perspective how productive we could be... And also how useless some forms of productivity are.

has he? making a booting from metal OS is a semester long undergraduate project, and this person has been working on it for way longer than that. in a semester, university programs expect you to write a kernel that boots to a shell with virtual memory management and multi-tasking. templeos doesn't even have virtual memory management.

Most universities let most programmers avoid doing all of that by themselves, which is probably the most impressive part of this project.

He doesn't want virtual memory management... the guy wrote his own just in time compiler that compiles and runs programs on the fly...

TempleOS doesn't want nor need VMM. That is what static analysis and being a "Real Programmer" ;-) is for.

That's not very nice.

The truth often isn't, it is still the truth.

How convenient for you that your opinions are always The Truth.

I know, it's great isn't it.

About Machievelli: The Prince was (proably) a sarcastic piece[0], denoting the things he saw politicians doing and he thought should not be done. It's a shame that he's remembered as though it was an instruction manual.

[0]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince#Interpretation_of_Th...

I read The Prince when I was a lot younger, fascinating book.

Please be a bit more respectful of peoples mental health issues.

No.

Well bully for you.

No joke. It's this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos

And this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS

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

And he may have another ID for all I know.

But the OS is real. The author is indeed strange. Some say he is schizophrenic.

I knew I wouldn't be the only person to think, "Oh my, it's Timecube all over again..."

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