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

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Post by chubot »

This might not be around what's asked, but I remember that people in Silicon Valley and around Google had buzzwords like "Social Mobile Cloud" back around ~2010 or ~2012.

https://www.wired.com/insights/2012/05/social-mobile-cloud/

Some people rolled their eyes, maybe including myself at time. (I was never dismissive publicly, but probably didn't pay as much attention as I could have). I would have to say that the buzzword turned out to be pretty accurate: those 3 things largely defined the last decade in terms of software technology, as I see it.

Especially for young people -- there is no world where they don't use some form of social media on their phones (including ones that didn't exist in 2012).

They use cloud applications rather than desktop ones -- that's the "default". Businesses also use cloud infrastructure -- that's the "default".

Lots of money was made in these 3 areas.

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

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Post by ringshall »

535188B17C93743 wrote: post #119
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…

Futurama also had a fantastic ending.

I agree. (Edit: to add to this, I've always thought that the third-last episode of Futurama, 'Murder on the Planet Express', was a return to form and reminiscent of the heyday of the show).

On the subject of tv shows, ‘Peep Show’, the British sitcom, also had a very strong final season and final episode.

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

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Post by flanbiscuit »

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 am a big fan of musicals and theater, been to a lot of shows living in NYC. I finally saw Hamilton on Disney+ because I could never get tickets for the show or didn't want to drop hundreds of dollars on it. I was worried before watching it that it was going to be over-hyped and I was going to be underwhelmed. I was wrong. It totally lived up to the hype and now i wish I had seen it live. Post-pandemic I might still go see it.

The show that WAS over-hyped and did NOT live up to it for me was Lion King. I saw it back in 2002-ish and was very disappointed. Sure the costumes were cool but the rest of the production was minimal and boring.

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

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Post by eightysixfour »

skohan wrote: post #368
aantix wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Ironically this is exactly what I don't like so much about Rails. It's such a "batteries included" framework that if you want to do what Rails is good for, it's going to be super easy, but if you want to do something a little bit different a lot of times it feels like you have to almost break Rails to make it work. To some degree I think it's a matter of taste, but I would much rather start from a blank slate, with a…

> that if you want to do what Rails is good for, it's going to be super easy, but if you want to do something a little bit different a lot of times it feels like you have to almost break Rails to make it work.

I feel like this is implicit in the name: these are the guide rails, stay on them and you will deliver more value in less time than you ever have before. If you need to do anything where you have to leave them, you have deRailed the whole thing.

The train metaphor is actually a pretty good one.

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

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Post by AbuAssar »

actf wrote: post #520

Stadia, the initial reviews were actually pretty bad, but I'm blown away by how good it is. There's something undeniably cool about playing cyberpunk on a macbook air with full graphical detail, and then switching over to play on my TV exactly where I left off. The latency is virtually imperceptible to me, and I love that I don't need a 50 GB download just to try out a new game. Everytime I use it I'm honestly impres…

You got me interested, What controllers does stadia support?

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

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Post by godelmachine »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #526
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…

Surprised to see Harry Potter discussion on HN. I thought it is a book series for Kids and Teens. Do Adults (30+ age) find it interesting too?

I have learnt many lessons from Harry Potter and consider them real. The beautiful scene of Death and the Three Brothers [1][2] has so much to teach us.

[1]https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Death_(The_Tale_of_the_T...

[2]https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Three_Br...

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

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Post by SoSoRoCoCo »

tzs wrote: post #550
mrlala wrote: post #458

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still could never get into WoW after enjoying Everquest for so many years. Such an amazing game if you had the time to sink into it.

Everquest is still around. They've got a free play option which is great if you want to indulge in nostalgia. The main limits on free play are you can't have as many different characters, and you don't get some of the newer features or you get limited versions of them. If you can remember your old account information, your account will have limits and abilities somewhere between a paid account and a new free account.…

Thanks for the tip! I need a good holiday game. (I just tried Baldur's Gate 3 and my system isn't good enough because it crashed three times in 30 minutes... got a refund tho)

> The game is much more solo friendly

Music to my ears. I don't have a gaming posse anymore and need more flexible play hours due to family. Downloading now...!

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

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Post by totemandtoken »

dan1234 wrote: post #356
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…

The Wire does live up to its hype, but I think The Shield is the better series.

I respectfully disagree. The writing on the Shield was good but kind of amateur compared to the Wire. I really want to like Kurt Sutter, and often I do, but he doesn't hold a candle to Simon and the rest of the writers on the Wire. The Shield had some really good socially aware arcs (the asset forfeiture season comes to mind) but even those pale compared to the whole Wire philosophy of institutions as Greek gods in a Greek tragedy. Also the pray-the-gay-away subplot in the Shield has not aged well.

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

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Post by house9-2 »

gxqoz wrote: post #57
neetrain wrote: post #18

How about Radiohead's 2007 album In Rainbows? Maybe OK Computer too, but I don't know how much hype there were because I was too young then...

Wasn't In Rainbows famously released as a surprise and thus had no real hype built up to it?

If I recall it was initially a self released pay how much you want download.

I believe this was a 'first' and there was more hype about that than the album itself.

In Rainbows is my favorite Radiohead album for sure, closely followed by the Bends.

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