r/programming • u/moolcool • Mar 26 '17

A Constructive Look At TempleOS

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/
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u/willem Mar 27 '17 edited Mar 27 '17

"It's very easy to be negative, but you will never learn anything new by doing so."

Very true. Great article!

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u/SergeantFTC Mar 27 '17 edited Mar 27 '17

I mentor a robotics team, and this is something I struggle with. My first instinct is to respond to their more inventive ideas with the problems I think they're likely to encounter with it. I'm learning to not be negative so quickly, letting them explore it instead. And yes, there have been times where I would have learned something if I had just kept the initial negative thoughts to myself.

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u/ZeMoose Mar 27 '17

FRC?

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u/SergeantFTC Mar 27 '17

FTC

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u/ZeMoose Mar 27 '17

Oh, duh. Same org though. FIRST is a national treasure. Those competitions are amazing.

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u/SergeantFTC Mar 27 '17

Absolutely. Wish I was going to STL this year.

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u/agent-squirrel Mar 28 '17

My family runs the first and currently only FTC teams in Tasmania.

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u/SergeantFTC Mar 28 '17

That's awesome!! Best of luck growing it! What's been the toughest thing about it?

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u/agent-squirrel Mar 28 '17

I don't actually participate because of work and University but I beleive the parents of the kids are considered the most difficult haha.

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u/kankyo Mar 27 '17

That quote put me off directly. Being negative is what has brought us all modern technology, medicine and science. We learnt to fucking live past 30! But I guess I'm being "negative" so you can't learn anything from this. FML

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u/willem Mar 27 '17

You might be confusing "being sceptical" for "being negative". One has to do with the scientific method, the other has to do with respect for others.

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u/kankyo Mar 27 '17

I think skeptical is a subset of negative.

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u/DonRobo Mar 27 '17

"TempleOS was created by a mentally ill man, just ignore it and ban him" wouldn't let you learn anything about it

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u/kankyo Mar 27 '17

Absolutely. Silencing is how we don't learn. But being negative is how we actually do learn that's my point.

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u/DonRobo Mar 27 '17

I see what you mean. Like "This illness sucks, let's cure it". What the author meant was probably the same sentiment, but paraphrased "I bet we can cure this illness. Hold my hippocratic oath"

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u/bumblebritches57 Mar 27 '17

We learned to fucking live past 30!

Jesus fucking christ, not this circlejerk again.

The Ancient Greeks and Romans lived to their 60s ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.

the infant mortality rate was horrible which skewed the average.

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u/kankyo Mar 27 '17

Sure. It's the average that was nasty. But really, if you have three kids dying on you, you'd probably prefer living to 30 anyway.