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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by redisman »

d_burfoot wrote: post #604
muststopmyths wrote: post #382

Cormac McCarthy. Finally started "bingeing" his books from the local library and not since Virginia Woolf has a writer's use of words to paint pictures made such an impression on me.

Is McCarthy hyped...? I read Blood Meridian because a pretentious literature/philosophy snob I knew in college told me it was good. I was also pretentious, so I read it. Other than that, I've almost never heard anyone talk about his work, other than briefly when the movies came out.

He was for a bit with a Oprah book of the month (the road) and no country for old men getting made into a movie

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by cercatrova »

fergie wrote: post #777
cercatrova wrote: post #693

Interesting that people are substituting the hard question (what has been hyped and has lived up to it) with the easier question (what is good and has stood the test of time) and answering that instead, a form of attribute substitution bias [0]. My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvi…

Never understood why React hooks are such a big deal- I mean you’re just setting state. Or am I missing something?

It seems you are. I'd encourage you to read briefly through [1] that I linked above, it shows why hooks are needed rather than just functions. Basically you're passing state around in a Closure such that you can hook into life cycles from any part of the app. This means that I can create a self contained hook for something like making an animation for a component and making it usable for any component I want, rather than wrapping everything into an AnimationComponent just to get the lifecycle state. I can reuse this behavior anywhere else in the app.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by tezza »

Avatar, Titanic, Avengers: End Game, The Matrix, Gostbusters 1984

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Google Street View, Google Maps

Windows 10

Mac Retina 2012

Zoom

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Las Vegas... I got married there and it was amazing

Sydney Beaches

Schwarzwald in Southern Germany

Full Moon Party on Koh Pannang

Varkala cliffs in Kerala, India

Jazz @ Harry’s American Bar in Paris

Glastonbury Festival

Tokyo

Millennium Party on Bondi Beach 2000 ( Mobile Home )

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by redisman »

flixic wrote: post #436
ekianjo wrote: post #342

> Cyberpunk’s reviews paint it as a tire fire. I think it’s a fun game, but it doesn’t live up to the expectation - it’s not the next Witcher 3. You have a short memory though. Witcher 3 was also deeply criticized for several aspects when it was just out as well before being recognized as a massive game a few months later. I'd say you should probably wait half a year to evaluate Cyberpunk properly.

Having completed the game, I think it will eventually go down as one of the best games of all times. We’ll need time to forget about PS4, to get bug fixes and some DLCs. But by the time PS6 comes out, I think people will say that “Cyberpunk was the last truly great game”.

I’m playing it on PC and it’s definitely one of the best games of the year. People are getting too caught up in the hype and backlash to see it for what it is. It’s doing so many things incredibly well and in fresh new ways. I just feel bad for anyone too stuck in the hate-cycle to enjoy it.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by goostavos »

whycombagator wrote: post #586
101008 wrote: post #38

Two 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…

> Breaking Bad last season I actually thought BB went downhill and quit mid-way through the last season, but I understand I'm in the minority.

I'm with ya. While season 5 had some phenomenal individual scenes (like "tread lightly"), it didn't land with me as a whole in the way the earlier seasons did. The finale of season 4 is to me, with the haunting "I won" line, is the ultimate ending in my mind.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by redisman »

kesor wrote: post #445

COVID-19, back in December 2019 it was starting to get hot - but it really exploded at about March 2020 onward.

Does anyone remember there was some VC explaining how bad the exponential growth is going to get in January or February here. After reading that blog I bought the hype and it was completely on point. I even told my wife to fly to see her family before it’s too late (cases were in the 1-20 range per day) at that point.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by mhh__ »

mdasen wrote: post #755
mhh__ wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RISC-V is probably going to be the Linux-Desktop of the future. Ultimately I think a lot of people hyping don't necessarily grasp that the ISA itself doesn't have a huge amount to do with a CPU in your pocket.

I'm curious why you think RISC-V is the future and not ARM. I guess part of it depends on how far into the future we're looking, but it doesn't seem like ARM license fees are so high that they're prohibitive. ARM generates less than $2B in revenue. Apple posts $275B in revenue. Are ARM's fees just a rounding error to anyone with scale? And ARM knows that it needs to remain competitive on its licensing fees to make su…

> I'm curious why you think RISC-V is the future and not ARM

I don't really, I was just keeping the comment short and avoiding the ire of any RISC-V fans. It could be either, but it's important to remember that instruction sets don't usually win solely based on merit.

For example, if you read most compiler books - because they were written in the early 2000s or late 90s, they spend almost all of their time discussing various RISC architectures (particularly the Alpha). The (then) 386 is usually mentioned in passing, ARM isn't even mentioned at all.

(You probably can guess what I'm getting towards) They're all dead, somehow ARM lives. It's also not really a question of money, Itanium wasn't that bad and Intel couldn't save it.

If I were God, the only CPU that I really really want to see make it to Silicon (even just to see if they're right) is the Mill. Even if they can't walk the walk it's a really nice concept (I think the belt will see use after their patent expires)

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

mdasen wrote: post #755
mhh__ wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RISC-V is probably going to be the Linux-Desktop of the future. Ultimately I think a lot of people hyping don't necessarily grasp that the ISA itself doesn't have a huge amount to do with a CPU in your pocket.

I'm curious why you think RISC-V is the future and not ARM. I guess part of it depends on how far into the future we're looking, but it doesn't seem like ARM license fees are so high that they're prohibitive. ARM generates less than $2B in revenue. Apple posts $275B in revenue. Are ARM's fees just a rounding error to anyone with scale? And ARM knows that it needs to remain competitive on its licensing fees to make su…

I suspect it's due to fundamentally different ownership forces acting on the ISAs. ARM may be a good choice now, but it's recently been put into the hands of someone who has a stake in the market which buys ARM licenses (Nvidia), and became non-neutral.

ISAs change, and there was a recent article written about this particular situation too: https://codasip.com/2020/12/22/does-isa-ownership-matter-a-t...

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by walto2 »

junon wrote: post #779
cercatrova wrote: post #693

Interesting that people are substituting the hard question (what has been hyped and has lived up to it) with the easier question (what is good and has stood the test of time) and answering that instead, a form of attribute substitution bias [0]. My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvi…

React hooks are terribly implemented. They cause deadlock in the simplest of cases. Check out Adam Haile's S.js and Surplus if you want a better example of this approach (which came LONG before "hooks"). Surplus also tops performance charts consistently, and has done so for years. Really underrated framework that is lightweight and battle tested.

Can you elaborate on the deadlock risk, or link to further reading?

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by josephg »

slightwinder wrote: post #401
DonHopkins wrote: post #37

Factorio!!! (It wasn't really hyped, but if it was, it would have lived up to it.) Actual video from the game doesn't qualify as hype! And the code is rock solid and wicked efficient. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&ab_channel=Facto... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8&ab_channel=Facto... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqaAjgpsoW8&ab_channel=Facto...

How does it compare to Satisfactory and Shapez.io (which is sold as a minimalistic factorio). I bought shapezio on steam some time and realized just yesterday i already collected 60h playtime on it... Now I'm thinking about digging sonewhere deeper.

I’ve played all three games and for me factorio is easily the best.

Designing big factories in Satisfactory feels awkward - it’s very hard to refactor and redesign because the buildings are so big and you need to build them one by one. The engineer in me is always vaguely dissatisfied with what I make in satisfactory. Satisfactory’s world is beautiful to explore - but that makes it a different sort of game.

And shapez was ok, but it lacks factorio’s loop. In factorio you build things out of what you mine and construct. Shapez needs its artificial level structure to motivate you to do anything - and I find that much less satisfying because it saps my intrinsic motivation. Factorio feels grounded in the world, whereas shapez feels like a puzzle game with almost no constraints.

The factorio modding scene is also incredible. Their are so many alternate ways to play factorio - complete with way deeper tech trees, or a base that teleports between planets every 10 minutes, Seaworld - where you start on a tiny island with nothing but ocean in every direction. And as others have mentioned, the game is rock solid. Multiplayer is an absolute blast.

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