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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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People rightfully discuss the wonderful themes, the memorable characters, the tragic arcs in The Wire, but one area they underrate is the form. I recently watched some of the HD restoration and the use of sound and image is really wonderful. I suspect a lot of it flies under the radar because The Wire purposefully used a style that wasn't overly pretty, was closer to verite than visually stunning. But there's some gr…
> barring one scene in the first season Yes! Was that the one where Avon, String, and Stinkum arrive with the cash bonuses? I am rewatching a third time right now and couldn't figure out why it stood out as somewhat clumsy. It even popped into my head while I was driving yesterday. You've just reminded me, so thank you.
Yep! It's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUHa2rCWeA
There's also the end of season montages, but I'm a lot more forgiving towards non-diegetic music for montages
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#923The Beatles. They were the definition of hype during their boy-band years in the early 60s, but pivoted mid-decade to a more experimental sound and more accomplished musicianship that remains unique, relevant, and impressive a half-century later. I can't think of a modern equivalent. I guess it would be like if BTS somehow transformed into The Decemberists.
Even though their early work sounded like everyone else at the time, it was brilliant. It wasn't just hype.
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#924I'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.
I have been building JAMstack apps since 2016 using exactly the stack you are asking about. Using something like the Serverless Framework to help you build and deploy your collection of microservice backends into AWS as well as your static frontend into S3 is just awesome to behold. I have had an app running for 3 years with spikes of traffic and have never had to worry about maintenance or downtime.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#925The Beatles. They were the definition of hype during their boy-band years in the early 60s, but pivoted mid-decade to a more experimental sound and more accomplished musicianship that remains unique, relevant, and impressive a half-century later. I can't think of a modern equivalent. I guess it would be like if BTS somehow transformed into The Decemberists.
To me, The Beatles are truly the Mozarts of pop music. At once accessible (remember that Mozart was a 'pop' artist of his day) and yet brilliant and layered and effortless in a way that will be remembered just as long as Mozart.
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#926Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
JAMstack is...not my jam. I'm a big fan of rendering majority on a server and then shipping it, especially with Phoenix's LiveView which allows you to write reactive UI without writing Javascript. But I said it in another comment: shipping value beats everything. If you can ship quickly and effectively in JAMstack to lambda, don't let anyone tell you that's wrong.
Shipping value is important. If you can build a solution faster in a monolithic, MVC style framework running on EC2 instances, then do that. I think people get too bogged down in the minutiae up front and forget they are being paid to solve a problem ASAP. Worry about optimisations and improvements when its going to add more value than right up front when the burning need of the business is to have something - ANYTHING - up and running and helping generate revenue.
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I feel it’s worth giving credit to Python f-strings in that case. They blew my mind in terms of convenience vs printf.
Python has a few cool things like that. List comprehension blows my mind at how elegant it is.
Agreed. Same with dict, set and generator comprehensions. I wish more languages included that feature.
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#929Overhyped is one thing, unfinished is another.
For all it's faults and failings, Duke Nukem Forever worked. In the literal functioning sense.
Cyberpunk is just unfinished. We went from "when's it done" to "burn the customer on a fast release" in a few short decades.
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#930- 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…
> "Religious books standing the test of the time.."
Humans started to stay in one location after the invention of agriculture which is quite recent about 10000 years. The mass gathering and agriculture Only after the invention of agriculture some people were able to have leisure time and mass organization became necessary. Bible is roughly 2000 years old. Islam is probably 800 years old. The vedic caste Hinduism is about probably 600 to 800 years old.
Religion is blip within a blip.