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

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Post by canada_dry »

Game of Thrones^^

Friends raved about it, but I just am not into fantasy genre so ignored it for a few years. When I finally caved, after a few episodes I fell hook-line-and-sinker into what is an incredibly well crafted story about the human condition: greed, lust, loyalty, ambition, betrayal... you name it, it has it all.

What it has in common with other amazing writing (e.g. Breaking Bad) is realistic (i.e. human) responses to incredible situations.

Edit: ^^ excluding the last season and the horrid finale!!

Martin's books are exquisitly well written and the early seasons were a credit to them - not so much once they diverted.

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

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Post by kortex »

modernerd wrote: post #295
kortex wrote: post #253

Type hints in python. Structured programming in general. Rust. It took me a long time to get remotely comfortable, but once it starts to click, it's awesome how the structure guides your development. Worth the investment, but don't expect to be able to grok it immediately.

Any resources in particular that helped you grok Rust?

Having someone you can ask questions to is huuuge. I have a friend who knows it pretty well and that was supremely helpful to get through some initial stumbling blocks and confusions.

I use Clion which is also super helpful in letting me inspect, autocomplete, and lint code before compiling.

The main rust-lang.org is quite good, but beyond that nothing in particular stands out. But lots of one-off blog posts on specific topics help get through certain blocks, eg how to write traits/impls.

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Post by parenthesis »

LordNight wrote: post #26
keiferski wrote: post #16

- 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…

>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. Interesting. About 10 years ago I was tired of modern cinema and completely stopped watching new films. After some pause I decided to start watching classic cinema from 1930 onward in more or less chronological order…

After watching all those movies, please would you share some of your favourites, especially lesser known titles.

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

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Post by adventured »

tikej wrote: post #140
mtberatwork wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. LeBron is definitely the best of his era but he's not touching Jordan in terms of greatest player of all time, even if he does pull off two more championships. During the 90s, Jordan was as close to a demi-god in the sports world as you could get.

He exceeds Jordan in nearly all individual metrics: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-lebron-james... Would I bet on Jordan or Lebron in 7 game playoff series (both players having the same teams)? Jordan. But overall I would draft Lebron as a franchise player.

You don't want to draft Lebron, he has zero loyalty to a team. You wouldn't be able to keep him after your first rebuild phase, which would be inevitable at some point. Maybe you'd get four or five years out of a freshly drafted Lebron before he bolted to one of the elite media markets that was better positioned to get him rings.

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Post by deeeeplearning »

mkl wrote: post #133
soneca wrote: post #46

I saw contrarian opinions, but I believe Avengers: End Game pretty much delivered the insane hype cultivated for 10 years.

Not for me. Too much quantum time travel hand-waving just magically solving problems.

Imagine being upset about quantum time travel when the main characters are a Norse God of Thunder, a man that got bitten by a radioactive spider, a lab created super soldier and the main villain is some demi god alien with reality warping powers derived from some rocks in a gold glove...

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Post by gregd »

IkmoIkmo wrote: post #71

I'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…

I have the Series 4 and it's fundamentally changed the way I interact with my iPhone when I'm out and about.

* I can answer calls while driving and not have to fumble around for my phone while driving my truck (The wife's SUV has fancy bluetooth integration)

* I can open and close my garage from my watch.

* I can voice message my family through Messages.

I only wish that the battery life were much longer than it is and that Apple could settle on one method of charging their devices, especially in vehicles with limited room.

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Post by ekianjo »

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?

Same here. For me I find the UI very poor and this breaks everything.

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Post by gramakri »

Lionel Messi. He recently even surpassed most goals for a club. He was touted as maradona successor which is an impossible bar and he has lived up to it. In contrast, not a single "messi" successor is even remotely close to him.

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

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Post by lawn »

canada_dry wrote: post #311

Game of Thrones^^ Friends raved about it, but I just am not into fantasy genre so ignored it for a few years. When I finally caved, after a few episodes I fell hook-line-and-sinker into what is an incredibly well crafted story about the human condition: greed, lust, loyalty, ambition, betrayal... you name it, it has it all. What it has in common with other amazing writing (e.g. Breaking Bad) is realistic (i.e. human)…

The first season(s) that followed the books, sure. But the quality declined until the last season that was just horrible.
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