<story><title>TempleOS: Installation</title><url>https://christine.website/blog/templeos-1-installation-and-basic-use-2019-05-20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidAdams</author><text>Terry was a nut, but he did a pretty good job of getting the word out about his magnum opus. Over several years, he alternated between sincere advocacy and unhinged abuse in trying to get my website OSNews to cover his OS development efforts more widely. Eventually, one of our volunteer editors patiently worked with him to produce an article about it:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.osnews.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;23796&amp;#x2F;recreational-programming-with-losethos&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.osnews.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;23796&amp;#x2F;recreational-programming-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just spent a few minutes reviewing my email archive of correspondence with Terry, and it warms my heart a little, even though at the time is was kind of terrifying.</text></comment>
<story><title>TempleOS: Installation</title><url>https://christine.website/blog/templeos-1-installation-and-basic-use-2019-05-20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fb03</author><text>I sincerely enjoyed Terry A. Davis&amp;#x27; videos on youtube.&lt;p&gt;Yes, You need to actively remember that you are dealing with a person with severe and possibly badly treated&amp;#x2F;untreated mental illness, and I say this because of the random bouts of aggressiveness and also blatant use of curse words such as n*gger and etc. Also his very skewed political views and whatnot.&lt;p&gt;But if you can keep that in mind (&amp;quot;I am dealing with a sick person&amp;quot;) and forgive his behavior during those bad events, you&amp;#x27;ll be able to &amp;quot;savor&amp;quot; his videos in a very technical way. The guy was truly a genius on its own league, a fact that, together with his mental illness, probably hurled him further into loneliness&lt;p&gt;(I am sure several bright people here on HN can relate on how being different or bright sometimes equals loneliness, specially during early years).&lt;p&gt;So please, try to watch his videos with these guidelines in mind, you&amp;#x27;ll surely be able to get some good lessons about delivering a vision, lowlevel compiler work or algorithms into your own craft.</text></comment>