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

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Post by remote_phone »

laserbeam wrote: post #9

I'd say Avengers: Endgame lived up to the decade of hype, which is no small feat. LotR sequels probably had a lot of hype prior to release. The latest God of War had a great release afaik. To be honest, it's hard to remember which things were really hyped up before release and met expectations. I keep thinking of stuff I heard was good after it was release, and things which were hyped and failed, or havr not yet full…

Endgame stuck the landing, which was extremely hard to do, but wasn’t the best movie of the bunch. That goes to Infinity War which was near perfect.

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Post by joshxyz »

boringg wrote: post #170
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...

So I tried it for 5 minutes and didn’t get into it. How much time do I need to spend to make it to fall for it? Or am I the minority who didn’t vibe off it at the beginning?

im with you i hated it because instead of letting me enjoy the game it forces me to use my remaining brain cells

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Post by fsloth »

manuelflara wrote: post #130

Hamilton. I'm not big into theater nor musicals, and I had heard so much about it by the time I watched it on Disney+, I wasn't expecting it to blow me away but it totally did. I'm a huge fan now, watched it several times, listened to the album hundreds of times, read the book, and recommend it every time I can :)

I think it's so good because it's a distillation of a true life that affects the modern world still in complex ways, made by an artist who understands it's subject matter deeply and intimately.

It both treats it's subject matter incredibly intelligently, yet never tries to show off with braininess and focuses on memorable stage characters and top notch songs.

It's so good on so many layers.

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Post by remote_phone »

breakfastduck wrote: post #239
leetrout wrote: post #79

I just got Disney+ to enjoy while I’m off and as someone who had to try 3 times to get through the latest Star Wars movie: the mandalorian is good.

Rogue One is worth watching if you haven't already. Miles ahead of anything else SW related Disney has put out.

It’s the third best Star Wars movie, behind New Hope and Empire. It’s actually fantastic.

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

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Post by city41 »

cowmix wrote: post #209
city41 wrote: post #197

Fiber 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.

As far as overall impact you are probably right. But I'm back on cable again after having fiber and the difference is striking in my experience. Cable delivers such an inconsistent experience versus fiber being 100% rock solid. But that's just my experience, maybe I got (un)lucky.

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

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Post by dmitriid »

gilbetron wrote: post #189
dmitriid wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'd say Avengers: Endgame It really didn't. "Let's take a compelling villain and a nice-ish philosophical dilemma, create a world that's reeling in the aftermath of said villain's actions... and just quantum time travel kill the villain with no effort and literally exactly zero consequences for anyone involved." Oh. Right. Boohoo exactly one single character died with exactly zero consequences for anyone because hi…

Vision, Black Widow, and Iron Man. That's a pretty major trio of deaths. Plus half the population still has the trauma of five years post-snap, and the other half finds themselves suddenly in a different world.

Vision and Black Widow are entirely inconsequential.

None of the perceived trauma exists, except in the minds of avid fans.

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

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Post by aantix »

generalk wrote: post #139

I'm gonna go back a short bit and say, for me? Ruby on Rails. In 2007 I was plugging away at PHP with whatever frameworks were around at the time -- the vast majority of web dev that I saw then was pure procedural scripting down the page, maybe some `include` statements to pull in database functions. Especially in PHP, which encouraged mixing logic and HTML. The consultancy I was with had built custom stuff on top of…

Cannot agree more.

The convention over configuration was brilliant - the implicit mappings made so much more sense. I could look at any given url and imply so much about what route/controller/view code was going to execute. The standardized code organization. ActiveRecord using the column names as data attributes.

Was CoverMyMeds written in Rails?

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