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

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Post by bananabiscuit »

cercatrova wrote: post #693

Interesting that people are substituting the hard question (what has been hyped and has lived up to it) with the easier question (what is good and has stood the test of time) and answering that instead, a form of attribute substitution bias [0]. My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvi…

Interesting, I would never have guessed Mr Robot was planned out start to finish. I loved the first season, but by the middle of the third season it felt very much like a show where the writers had no idea where to take the plot next, haven’t watched anymore since.

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

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Post by ralphc »

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.

I'm not a basketball fan but if LeBron only turns out to be the 2nd or 3rd greatest I'd assert he still lived up to the hype.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

Robot Vacuum, cleaning the floors in my place used to honestly be a task that took well over an hour I used to only really do it when it started to look bad. Do it all the time now and every time it's done you walk in the room and are surprised how nice it suddenly looks.

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Post by Dowwie »

Every national park I've visited in North America seems to not only live up to hype but surpass expectations once visited. I've been to many parks in the U.S and Canada. I don't have a favorite. My favorite usually winds up the park that I last visited. So, currently that would be the rainforest, beaches and mountains of the Olympic peninsula in Washington. Camping inside the parks makes a big difference. Backpacking, even more so.

One park that I visited on a whim was Capitol Reef, in Utah. My plans for several days backcountry camping in Zion fell through because of snow fall late in season. I had to improvise. Hikers are some of the most friendly people and love sharing knowledge on the trail. One suggested I check out Capitol Reef. What a gem! It was far less crowded than Zion and absolutely gorgeous.

See the parks! Camp there! You'll need to plan 6 months in advance for permits to the most popular destinations.

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Post by philshem »

hwestiii wrote: post #587

The Illiad. As the foundation of Western literature, it may have received the greatest amount of hype that it is possible to receive. I had attempted to read it and The Odyssey when I was much younger, in middle school, maybe too young, and failed miserably. But as it is always with cultural touchstones, references to it are inescapable, and a few years ago, in my mid 50s I overcame the reluctance accumulated in the…

Emily Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of the Odyssey is extremely readable, is now working on translating the Iliad.

https://www.capstan.be/british-scholar-emily-wilsons-fresh-a...

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Post by certmd »

hwestiii wrote: post #587

The Illiad. As the foundation of Western literature, it may have received the greatest amount of hype that it is possible to receive. I had attempted to read it and The Odyssey when I was much younger, in middle school, maybe too young, and failed miserably. But as it is always with cultural touchstones, references to it are inescapable, and a few years ago, in my mid 50s I overcame the reluctance accumulated in the…

Very much looking forward to Emily Wilson's forthcoming translation. She translated the Odyssey a few years ago, still in verse but with less stilted language, definitely makes it more accessible. Looking forward to reading it to my children when they're just a couple years older.

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

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Post by cercatrova »

bananabiscuit wrote: post #711
cercatrova wrote: post #693

Interesting that people are substituting the hard question (what has been hyped and has lived up to it) with the easier question (what is good and has stood the test of time) and answering that instead, a form of attribute substitution bias [0]. My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvi…

Interesting, I would never have guessed Mr Robot was planned out start to finish. I loved the first season, but by the middle of the third season it felt very much like a show where the writers had no idea where to take the plot next, haven’t watched anymore since.

You should continue watching, it all comes together in the last half of the 4th season. You'll understand why Elliot is the way he is.

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

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Post by cambalache »

dmitriid wrote: post #58
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…

> Most religious books that have stood the test of time have lived up to the hype. They really haven't. Not a single one of them. There is, however, organized religion around them that has twisted those book to mean whatever it is that brings the flock. Are they influential? Yes. Have they stood the test of time? Hell, no

Yes pure garbage, the book of Job, the Psalms, the Ecclesiastes, the sermon of the mountain, the Sefer Yetzirah, the Popol Vuh, the Upanishads, the Tao Te Ching...garbage,garbage, garbage.

For more garbage please visit https://www.sacred-texts.com/

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

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Post by Craighead »

cercatrova wrote: post #702
impish19 wrote: post #606

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here to say the exact same thing. I can't stop talking to everyone and their brother about it. It feels like a clear leap into the future. For the uninitiated, here are some highlights of what it enables you to do: - You can go to a friend's apartment with a Chromecast and just start playing games YOU own like CyberPunk & Assasins Creed within seconds on their TV (assuming they have a controller or you brought y…

You don't really own the games however, it relinquishes user control. If that's fine to you then sure, but I don't want to play games as a service, I just want to play them on my own hardware with minimal latency.

If valve ever goes out of business the games on that platform won't be playable

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

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Post by newtwilly »

otterpro wrote: post #300

Vim: Although I use IDE for coding, Vim has been a good all-around editor for my past 8 years. I just hate working on editor without vim kb binding. MacOSX: As a veteran developer on Windows (and Linux), I really liked how everything worked well in GUI. While I can't explain it all, everything looks and feels intuitive and easier to work with, even little things like the command key, its various keyboard shortcuts, a…

I have to disagree that macOS has a good GUI. I have used Ubuntu with KDE Plasma (Ubuntu) extensively in the past, but when I started a new job a year ago I was supplied a 2019 MBP. This year has been my first Mac experience.

I find a lot of things annoying. I'm mostly used to it now and don't mind the day to day experience, but it was jarring and I know it's not ideal.

* If I want to maximize a window, I have to hover over the green button and then select 'Zoom' from the drop down menu. So it takes multiple seconds to maximize. (I have noticed for a long time throughout university and employment that it is common style for Mac users to have many windows floating around, and to never maximize.)

* If you decide to use 'Full Screen' / 'tiling', notifications don't work while you are in full screen mode. Maybe there is a way to change this or maybe some people find this desirable.

* Because of how long the green button hovering takes, I tried to setup keyboard shortcuts for maximizing windows and also for "Move Window to Left Side of Screen" and move to the right. The shortcuts randomly don't work for me, so I no longer use them.

* If I drag a window to the left edge of the screen, it doesn't snap to take up the left half of my screen. Again, have to do the annoying green hover.

This is all in contrast to KDE where it was simple to snap windows onto sides of the screen, or into corners, or to maximize windows. It never failed. Continuing...

* On KDE I could setup a separate 'task bar' for each monitor with those boxes/buttons that show up on the bottom of your screen for each window you have open on that monitor. So I can switch between windows independently on each monitor. On MacOS you can only have one dock. When you click a dock icon, it brings the window to the front on each display, possibly blocking something you had in the front on a display.

* When you have multiple displays on MacOS, moving your mouse around in the bottom area of the screen can move the dock to that display. This is easy to accidentally trigger, and sometimes it's hard to do this 'mouse wiggle' on the other display to put it back. That is, I have spent 10+ seconds wiggling my mouse in different ways to put my dock back on the display I want it on.

* Oh, back to full screen mode. If you are in full screen mode and you try to do something toward the top of the window, the macOS menu bar drops down and blocks you, and you have to wait for it to go away and then carefully go for the button you were aiming for. (Imagine flinging your mouse up to the address bar of your browser and then being blocked by the menu bar for multiple seconds each time.)

By the way, about your list... Emacs is good and works great on the Mac. Mapping the Caps Lock key to be Ctrl (in the system settings, not just for Emacs) and using sticky keys has completely mitigated any 'accessibility' concerns / sore pinky for me.

Lisps I like a lot too. I did the first few chapters of SICP quite a while ago, which gave me a great feel for recursion and probably some other things. I like Clojure a lot and learnt it super quickly by reading this book free online. The Emacs setup works pretty good. https://www.braveclojure.com/clojure-for-the-brave-and-true/

The MBP display was my first high-res / high-dpi. It looks great. Then I tried plugging my mac into multiple different 1080 monitors I wanted to use with it. Looked absolutely terrible. I thought it was broken. Couldn't find any fix online. Now I do notice how much worse (than retina) 1080 looks on Windows and Linux, but I'm pretty sure on Mac it is much much worse for some reason. I bought a 24" 4k monitor from LG for $300 bucks, and it looks about identical to my MBP display. I'm very happy with it. The smaller screen size helps keep high DPI, so I definitely don't see any pixels. Happy Holidays!

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