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

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Post by slightwinder »

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.

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

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Post by anderspitman »

arkitaip wrote: post #51
Shared404 wrote: post #5

You could make a case for The Mandalorian, although that didn't get as much hype due to the internets... dislike ...of the sequel trilogy. Another one I can think of is Breath of The Wild, and probably Mario Odyssey. I've also heard good things about the FF7 remake, but haven't played it.

The Mandalorian has restored the faith in the future of the franchise in millions of fans. Most of us thought Star Wars was over considering how mediocre the last six movies have been but along comes this well-written, fun adventure that manages to tie together the previous movies, animated series and books. Imagine a new trilogy made by Filoni and Favreau - they would absolutely kill it.

Which books are you referring to? I don't feel like it draws particularly from the EU, though also no big contradictions like episodes 7-9.

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

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Post by throw0101a »

mtberatwork wrote: post #74
apengwin wrote: post #3

LeBron James was touted as the Next Great Hope for basketball, was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at age 17, and his high school games were televised on ESPN. Since then he's won 4 NBA championships, opened a school in his hometown, and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.

> 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.

Nick Wright has counter-argument to this:

* https://twitter.com/getnickwright/status/1316013808469463041

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Post by noarchy »

emcq wrote: post #336
bloopernova wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly a silly question, but does the Apple Watch work with Android? Or at least with a Mac?

You can get all this functionality and more working beautifully with Android with Garmin watches. Mine lasts for many days on a charge (perhaps a week without activity tracking), has better sport tracking features, but the screen isn't quite as good. There are currently a few good deals on the Vivoactive 3, but also many higher end models available too.

I use a Vivoactive 3, and the battery definitely doesn't last days if I actually use it to track a specific exercise. I'm quite unimpressed with the battery life, but the watch is fairly feature-rich, otherwise.

If I just wear it without running anything, then yes, it can last days. But if all I want is to track heart rate, sleep, and such, I can get that with a much cheaper watch.

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

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Post by implements »

paulnechifor wrote: post #309
ddek wrote: post #155

The 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…

I started watching The Wire recently expecting a very dry show that's difficult to understand but I found it gripping from the start. The characters felt real and the world very fucked up and interesting. Season 2 was good, but I didn't understand why they kept the drug dealers plot on ice. It seemed like filler. By season 3 it turned into every other TV show where characters are just tools used to express a story ra…

Season 4 is arguably the best bit of television drama, ever - it’s a masterpiece.

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

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Post by jrib »

thekyle wrote: post #20

When 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.

I'm still on the fence. I could use a new laptop but everything I've looked at doesn't live up to what I would hope for in terms of battery life and specs.

The M1 seems to fit the bill. But I'm hesitant to buy into something that I can't run linux on.

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

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Post by poulsbohemian »

kzrdude wrote: post #137
hliyan wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely this. To me, it's the most revolutionary thing they've done since the iPad.

I think the ipad is meh, so better than that. iphone?

I’ve gone back and forth about the iPad, but now that I’m in a non-technical field, it’s on the tipping point of being my daily driver. When I’m with clients and can hold it in my hand to share info it feels like I’m living in the future.

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

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Post by TimTheTinker »

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…

I’m curious what your take is on the JAMStack+lambdas style of app development.

I am working on a new web app. Initially, Elixir/Phoenix was looking like an excellent option, but then I looked at hosting and decided it would be easier to use something like the Serverless framework for AWS deployment which JAMstack+lambdas seems to match better — no need to manage VMs and networking infrastructure, mostly.

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