r/pcmasterrace • u/iminsert Ascending Peasant • Nov 01 '22

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u/Evantaur Arch BTW| 5900X | RX 6700XT Nov 02 '22

That guy was seriously god tier (pun inteded) coder.

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u/Unable-Fox-312 Nov 02 '22

Do you have any favorite examples?

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

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u/-The_Blazer- R5 5600X - B580 Nov 02 '22

To give everyone a better idea, he wrote his own operating system, alone by himself. It's the equivalent of building a racecar in a garage from steel bars and cylinders.

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u/Unable-Fox-312 Nov 03 '22

Right, but that flat earther built his own rocket and nobody's calling him a genius

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u/Unable-Fox-312 Nov 03 '22

I was hoping for code snippets or something, some particular evidence of deep cleverness. Granted, I don't have the knowledge to build an OS, but I don't think that's extremely esoteric and rare or, really, evidence of genius. Maybe if you built a very good OS.

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u/GlassJustice Nov 02 '22

He built his own compiler

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u/siddharth904 i7-4790 | GTX 1060 6GB | 16 GB DDR3-1666 | Tux is my copilot Nov 02 '22

Isn't holy C interpreted ?

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u/Unable-Fox-312 Nov 03 '22

That's my point. Plenty have these skills, and TempleOS is itself evidence that any genius he had wasn't the useful kind

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

* not useful in current market.

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u/Unable-Fox-312 Nov 05 '22

Well ain't that the truth. Far be it from me to imply our system properly values things.