Unpopular opinion - Java virtual machine (JVM).
Yes, I needed that to install VB6. Let's also add VB6 to the list, I use it at least once a year for something quick.
Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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#612Stadia, 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…
I agree that Stadia sounds like it works awesomely, but Google's history of killing off products is what's keeping me away. That's Google's own fault and nothing on the Stadia team. I know eventually all services likely disappear, but there's a big difference between "most likely within a couple years" and "some indefinite date way off in the future".
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#613Two 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.
Or four
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#614I'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…
hmmm, I had bad experiences.
1) activity tracking is fake. Turn over on sofa, get told "congrats! you finished your activity"
2) sleep tracking is fake. Forget to wear it, get told "You slept great!
3) water proof is useless. I bought it because I was going to be surfing and wanted to know if it was close to time to meet up with others. But, while it is water proof you can't use it if the screen is wet
4) Not good for telling time - because often I'd twist my wrist and the face would not light up, try again fail, try again fail, RAGE! get out other hand to manually wake it up
Sold it 2 months after I got it.
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#616A couple games and/or systems: Super Nintendo, Super Mario 3, Starcraft 2, street fighter 2, Warcraft 3...
Warcraft 3 has aged very well.
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#617Computers
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#618Factorio!!! (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 liked shapez the best of those three. Felt like it was streamlined to just the fun part.
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#619Half-Life 2 I preordered it in 2003, before the big hack/leak caused Valve to delay release into 2004. Because of the success of the original and the long wait, combined with Valve being almost complete silence during development, there was a huge buildup of hype leading up to the release. Totally worth it.
Half-Life 2 is the gold standard for living up to the hype. There were videos of the physics and physics based puzzled that kicked the most anticipated game into an impossibly high bar of expectations but it still delivered on all its promises. People forget that it launched steam and made valve into a multi-billion dollar company.
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#620Windows 95
is plug and pray.