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

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Post by metal » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:02 PM UTC

fsflover wrote: post #163

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…

“Full day, 18 hours” battery life ruined it all for me. Too much trouble to charge so often.

18 hours is absurd, IMO. I have a Garmin Instinct Solar that gets up to 24 days of battery life without any solar exposure (there's unlimited battery life with enough exposure unless you use GPS a lot). I get notifications for any phone app I want, plus GPS when I need it and a multitude of fitness tracking, including round the clock heart beat monitoring. I can't use it as a phone or send texts (though I can read them) so I guess that's where it "lags" behind the Apple Watch. I think it's the perfect fitness tracker that's also a rugged watch.

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

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Post by aroman » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:06 PM UTC

shepherdjerred wrote: post #763

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…

I just went down a rabbit hole of streaming for a couple of hours. I tried out Stadia, Moonlight, and GeForce Now. I want is a service that: * Lets me play my existing library of games (what I own on Steam, Origin, Battle.net) * Has League of Legends * Streams in 1440p 144fps I haven't found anything that does this.

Rainway? https://rainway.com

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

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Post by trianglem » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:10 PM UTC

nrp wrote: post #703

trianglem wrote: post #686

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the same vein, the Mahabharata. Literally mind blowing character building and arcs and all of this more than 2 millennia ago. It is also 10 times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined.

Do you have a recommended English translation?

Yes, the version by Ramesh Menon is easy to read and relatively unabridged.

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

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Post by hypertexthero » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:10 PM UTC

Jagged Alliance 2.

I played the demo for longer than I played whole other games, and I still play the game that was released in 1999 regularly.

In my top five video games ever made.

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

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Post by lmedinas » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:11 PM UTC

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…

I would add also The Sopranos, Entourage and How I met your mother. Fantastic TVShows.

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

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Post by medlyyy » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:15 PM UTC

kepler1 wrote: post #489

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 :)

Unfortunately, after listening to the soundtrack a bit, I find that I can only stand so much rap before my ears get tired.

With you on that. I think I only made it about 20 minutes in. Maybe it's better live.

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

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Post by wollef » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:20 PM UTC

shepherdjerred wrote: post #763

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…

I just went down a rabbit hole of streaming for a couple of hours. I tried out Stadia, Moonlight, and GeForce Now. I want is a service that: * Lets me play my existing library of games (what I own on Steam, Origin, Battle.net) * Has League of Legends * Streams in 1440p 144fps I haven't found anything that does this.

Have you tried shadow? (I haven't, but have heard generally positive things)

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

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Post by lmedinas » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:23 PM UTC

tracer4201 wrote: post #757

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…

Respectfully I disagree. I tried Stadia a couple months ago. Note: I’m on a Gigabit connection. I found the library of games generally unappealing. I did play a few titles, including Player Unknown. The stuttering and lag in the game reminded me of playing Quake 3 Arena on a 56K circa 1999. Also, graphically the game wouldn’t run at my monitors 1440p. The graphics generally looked washed out. I thought it was just a…

im a bit confused with your comment, doesn't Stadia Pro supports 4K and HDR ?

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

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Post by colinmhayes » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:27 PM UTC

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.

I felt the same way. It sort of fell apart during the later seasons. But the final season, especially the second half of it is easily one of my favorite seasons ever. The writing is absolutely incredible, especially as a software developer. Basically like an opposite lost, everything comes together in an incredibly satisfying way.

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

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Post by tekkk » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:28 PM UTC

bhauer wrote: post #299

This thread is clarifying to me. I now have more anecdotal data to back up my anecdotal feeling that I don't agree with most people on HN on matters such as this. The highest voted answers are things I feel are overhyped. Harry Potter, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Apple Watch, Ruby on Rails, Hamilton. I'm not saying these things are bad , but the hype level far exceeds the delivered value, in my opinion. I had to scroll d…

I have to agree. Although some of these things are clearly subjective and can't be compared, I think the true mark of a concept living up to its hype is how ubiquitous the approach it pioneered has become. IPhone, for example, can be seen as one clear example of this. The others are a bit harder to verify for their impact.

Electricity, cars, reusable rockets I think all belong to this category yet due to their popularity people don't even consider them as things that at some point were hyped and critiqued.

Opinion of my own is that the actor Daniel Day-Lewis is indeed the greatest actor who has ever lived. It is just his dedication to the craft that sets him apart from the rest so clearly by total immersion to the character which I've never seen anyone else replicate. Many other actors still remain "themselves" in the process but he can truly transform in a way no one else can and with such great range of characters. Granted we do not have accurate historical data over the course of the whole human civilization but well, I'd say it's a good guess.