Shine on, Terry, you crazy diamond.
If nothing else, TempleOS is a testament to how much one programmer can accomplish absent feedback or collaboration from others. For better or worse.
If nothing else, TempleOS is a testament to how much one programmer can accomplish absent feedback or collaboration from others. For better or worse.
This is clearly a statement of adoration, but even still, it is anti-helpful to perpetuate the use of the word "crazy" in conversations that touch on mental health.
If you have the means to read the comment on the internet, you also have the means to search that phrase or set of words and immediately see it's connected to a Pink Floyd song.
Even if you don't do the search, you're still projecting yourself onto their words.
"Crazy diamond" ... what makes a diamond a 'typical' diamond? Sharp/precise, clear, focused. Now let's look at 'crazy' - typically means extremely far beyond the average/normal point. Literally 'off the charts' but in this context, mentally off the charts. To be in possession of such qualities so strong that we can't even think about how possible that is, but here we have something that demonstrates that. A person that wrote their own hobbyist kernel and OS.
Is that easy to do? Show me your custom kernel & OS. Oh, don't have one? Then how many people do you personally know that have pretty much single handedly done that? Probably not that many. So you don't have a primary or secondary sources that you can speak to the dedication and depth of effort for this this task/accomplishment.
It removes power from the one actually being discussed as to encourage others to speak on the individuals' behalf, thus less emphasis and power on their own self-representation and more importantly, their own voice.
I think it is a perfect description: someone who is so clear and focused in their passion and pursuit of it to the extent that we can not comprehend the effort to achieve what he single handedly did, and the clear focused and beautiful nature of what they've created, straddling between pure effort and pure art. I think it's a very humanizing thing to show that mental illness is not inherently dangerous and not inherently bad and that those either showing signs or suffering are people first and foremost, and we should listen to what they have to say, not voices that claim to represent them.
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I noticed you wrote a 28.0 word per sentence comment, with an average of 4.7 characters per word. This parent comment may be difficult for someone under the age of 8 to understand, and we may have a child accidentally browse HN. Please remember to think of the children. Don't use words that have multiple meanings, this could cause confusion in their lives.
Yours truly, Thought Police