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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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#202iPhone (2007) Ok, maybe not so much the original 2007 model, arguably it wasn't until the iPhone 4 (2010) until it really came into its own. But few products released in my lifetime changed modern life as the iPhone did. And unlike most other seismic tech products (world-wide-web, linux) that took years to build momentum, it had lots of pre-release hype.
This should be at the top.
Until that iPhone unveil, no-one had ever seen swipe-to-scroll, now its second nature to at least half the planet.
Video of the 2007 unveil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN4U5FqrOdQ
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#203- A lot of people watch it with no background knowledge and subsequently don’t quite understand the “best film ever” label, but Citizen Kane is indeed a fantastic film. Just read about Orson Welles first. - Most religious books that have stood the test of time have lived up to the hype. The Bible (especially certain books like Ecclesiastes or Proverbs), The Quran, The Upanishads, to name a few. Again, don’t just go i…
> - Lifting weights is indeed worth the hype, and its benefits are more diffuse than just “being able to lift heavy things.” This was unexpected, but true. I started a few month ago, because I moved and noticed that carrying the goceries in the 4th floor interrupted my whole day... Every movement includes moving weight. It basically makes the whole life easier
If you want to maintain a high quality of life and an active life into old age, you are going to need to lift weights. Or a similar equivalent exercise that provides impact to preserve strength and bone density.
The sooner one starts the better.
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#204When the M1 chip was introduced I was a bit underwhelmed. Apple being so vague about their performance didn't exactly inspire confidence. But as more information has come out it seems like the hype has actually increased.
Yeah, it like someone went two years into the future and brought back this chip.
As a Chromebook fan (and I used one as my daily driver), it seems like Apple has out-Chromebooked all Chromebooks with the M1 MBA. Unless AMD or Qualcomm pulls a rabbit out of their collective hats in the next 6 months, the MBA will be my next laptop.
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#205Two finales: - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When the seventh book came out in 2007 there was this fear among the fandom that JK Rowling couldn't deliver a great ending. I think most people agreed she did very well (even more than expected, considering the complexity of the story in the prior six books). - Breaking Bad last season / last episode: there aren't many tv shows that can end in a high note (check G…
Ozymandias it is, it wil live up to me for decades, such a good script.
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#206The Wire. I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes. I think it helped that I quite quickly saw it as a morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show. With that mindset, the possibly-underwhelming finale of S1 is much more effectiv…
The Wire does live up to it's hype.
Keep going beyond the second season, it gets better, when the lines between the gangs and the government blur
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#207I'm loving my Apple Watch. I wasn't entirely sure yet what to think of the watch as a form factor, given that a phone can do everything it can and more. But there's three interesting aspects that have really added value for me. 1) is health data, in a way a computer or phone just can't do. It tracks things like heartrate that a phone + heartrate strap is too convoluted for, for non-athletes. Plus it's all-day and qui…
“Full day, 18 hours” battery life ruined it all for me. Too much trouble to charge so often.
It depends on how many apps you pair with the watch.
My colleague gets 24 hours battery life on her series 6. Still uncomfortable compared to the usual week+ battery life Garmins.
On the cheaper side, another colleague has an Amazfit Blip Lite which lasts 30 days on a 2 hour charge and can withstand up to 30 meters underwater.
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#208Serenity. I wasn't part of the 'original run' of Firefly fan base, but when I read the story I get the filling that it lived and surpassed the hype by a wide margin.
The series is excellent, and this is the only example I can think of (at the moment) of a movie based on, or continuing, a good TV series that was actually worthy of its inspiration. Chiwetel Ejiofor almost steals the show, he is so good.
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#209Fiber internet. Aww inspiring speeds that never waver. It's a giant leap above cable and dsl in my experience.
This is something that actually turned out to me meh for me. I think cable internet was the huge jump.
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#210Haskell typeclasses. They really are interfaces that don’t leak. Solid state disks. Huge speed boost.
I came here to says SSD. There's never been as big a performance upgrade you could make.
I recently moved from a M.2 750MB/s SSD to an M.2 NVME one that does about 3,750MB/s.
That was an amazing boost that I'm so very glad to have purchased. Ironically enough, it was to have enough space to install Cyberpunk 2077 :)