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Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?

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Post by Lichtso »

dmarcos wrote: post #98
Lichtso wrote: post #74

Not sure if mathematics counts as software: Geometric / Clifford Algebra. It makes just about every aspect of handling geometry in computer graphics and robotics so much easier. It comes with a ton of upsides and only two downsides: You probably were not taught it yet (so you have to learn it) and if you do, others will have trouble following you unless they learn it too. I somehow feel like coming from a tribe where…

Nice. I’ve been always curious but also worried about alienating myself. Any communities of GA users out there to feel connected?

I think the biggest gathering is: bivector.net

It has a discourse and a discord.

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Post by t0mbstone »

no-dr-onboard wrote: post #94
d3nj4l wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most mid-to-cheap end "HDR" TVs look absolutely awful on HDR. The colours are washed out and the contrast is blown out. If your device sends an HDR signal, in many cases it'll look worse than not having HDR at all.

I completely agree. I was an early adopter of a Sony HDR10 set and am pretty worse off for it. Genuinely curious though as to what you consider a good HDR tv though.

The only way HDR looks good is on an OLED screen with perfect black levels, in my opinion.

When the entire screen can be pitch black, and a single pixel can be fully lit up, that's when HDR really shines.

All of the LED/LCD HDR solutions look like shit, in my opinion. Even the screens touting a hundred different lighting zones. Nothing compares to OLED.

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Post by jareklupinski »

Delphiza wrote: post #100
abetusk wrote: post #79

I'm showing my age, but here's an abridged list: 1. Google Search - before Google came out, it was wading through Alta-vista and Yahoo's hand picked pages and ignoring the 50% adult content spam, or using a physical 'phone book' of web pages 2. Google Email - when it game out, the fact that it had gigabytes of storage was astounding 3. Wikipedia - this became one of the first resources for most queries that weren't h…

Good call on Arduino. The ability to write LED blinky embedded software on a microcontroller using a simple IDE and a USB cable was definitely 10x from what came before. The barriers to entry in terms of knowledge, tools (compilers), and dev boards was immense before Arduino.

came to say Arduino; I cut my teeth on Basic Stamps in school but today they still cost over $150 just to get all the hardware you need to started. And forget about leaving just the brains in a home monitoring gadget or clock project, they cost over $50 each!

Arduino MCUs can literally be removed from the developer board and function stand-alone with a few cents of external hardware, and the chip itself can be replaced with a blank for a few dollars.

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Post by pramodbiligiri »

imagine99 wrote: post #85

I was frankly shocked at some of the things mentioned here. Instagram? Wix.com? Uber? Discord? Seriously? BUT that got me thinking: Could it be that a large portion of the 10x improvement could be in marketing, i.e. you'll have to be able to market your product as "10 times as good", regardless of whether or not it actually is? AND secondly, could it be that many if not most products that are marketed as 10x as good…

You have a point. A product can be 10x better only in one or two aspects. And there will be downsides in other dimensions.

But usually that suffices because the other dimensions don’t really matter or have ceased to matter (like MS Word’s advanced features).

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Post by ajuc »

wlesieutre wrote: post #47
mtmail wrote: post #36

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> or seeing your emails bounce when people had full inboxes. For those who don't remember: That was around the time when Yahoo offered 6MB, some others only 2MB.

Found this CNET article: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-offer-gigabyte-of-free-e... They say 2 MB Hotmail, 4 MB Yahoo. Gmail went straight to a gigabyte.

It was so crazy people wrote code to use gmail as a network drive.
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