YouTube video titles are ruining internet history. And probably it is more YouTube recommendation-engine guilt, than creators themselves. I hope big YouTube creators team up and build some sort of manifesto or code of conduct to fix this. They can inspire other creators and also educate viewers to appreciate better titles and thumbnails too. They have the power if they do it as a group.
Even good content from big Youtubers needs click-bait and vague title on Youtube to be successful.
Ring 0 is genuinely fun. Cooperative multitasking is super easy to write for and reason about. Having a known fixed screen resolution makes designing UIs much easier.
Sure it all sucks for the users, but if you are a programmer I encourage you to once in your life deep dive into old school coding on a machine that you control completely. You can pump out powerful code so much faster! It is a serious 2x-3x speedup.
Until another process trashes your memory because flat memory layouts don't offer any protection. That sucks. But up until then, lots of fun!
I would love to understand the special file format terry created, which allowed him to insert the animated icons into what is essentially just an ASCII file.
The video is not bad but as I watched it when it came out I thought that they missed what for me is the most interesting part: how the console/debugger/ui combination is fully hyperlinked:
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
There are precedents of that though: from what I’ve seen in videos and read in manuals, the integrated LISP environments like Genera did have that much earlier. That was built by teams of people with way more resources than him.
I think Terry Davis was right in that some valuable things have been lost in modern computing systems.
BTW, today I watched a demonstration of an IDE from the 1990s linked from another HN discussion which also hyperlinked things like the debugger (gdb) output etc.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk
It was the company that made Lucid Emacs (later XEmacs) which they built for this purpose: graphic elements combined with monospace text.
Even good content from big Youtubers needs click-bait and vague title on Youtube to be successful.