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

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Post by oefrha » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:52 PM UTC

chrisin2d wrote: post #217

DonHopkins wrote: post #37

Factorio!!! (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...

I’m an avid Factorio player. It is rare to see such commitment to craftsmanship that the Factorio developers demonstrate. Every aspect of the game is continually refined and improved. The game is very performant even when there tens of thousands of entities moving around at any moment. The multiplayer gameplay also reveals a lot of fundamental truths about collaborative engineering as the player must debate architect…

> The game is very performant even when there tens of thousands of entities moving around at any moment.

You factory isn’t big enough if the game is still very performant ;) The factory must grow.

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

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Post by skohan » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:52 PM UTC

kzrdude wrote: post #137

hliyan wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely this. To me, it's the most revolutionary thing they've done since the iPad.

I think the ipad is meh, so better than that. iphone?

Same. I guess the iPad Pro is interesting for artists, but I have owned a couple of iPads and it turns out I would much rather have a laptop and an e-reader.

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

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Post by leetrout » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:52 PM UTC

breakfastduck wrote: post #239

leetrout wrote: post #79

I just got Disney+ to enjoy while I’m off and as someone who had to try 3 times to get through the latest Star Wars movie: the mandalorian is good.

Rogue One is worth watching if you haven't already. Miles ahead of anything else SW related Disney has put out.

It wasn’t bad at all. I guess I just had too much SW fatigue

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

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Post by x86ARMsRace » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

elliottkember wrote: post #362

peteretep wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Perl programmer I didn’t get the hype of Ruby. Then I wrote my dissertation on it. I still didn’t get it. Python is fine and I see it’s strengths and weaknesses but Ruby is just hipster Perl and doesn’t have Moose. Don’t, as they say on Twitter, “at” me.

I think you’re making the classic mistake of confusing Ruby with Rails.

Which is an oddly pervasive mistake! I had a coworker once assume since I knew Ruby the language, that I'd be completely comfortable with Ruby on Rails' Active Record system.

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

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Post by Torwald » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

Apps on the iPhone.

When Apple introduced the iPhone, they told third-party developers to build web apps for the phone, presumably because they hadn't the dev tools ready yet. But everybody wanted to build native apps.

That's the funny thing, Apple didn't create the hype, the eager dev community did. Then the tools and the apps came. The rest is history, as they say.

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

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Post by wott » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:54 PM UTC

canada_dry wrote: post #311

Game of Thrones^^ Friends raved about it, but I just am not into fantasy genre so ignored it for a few years. When I finally caved, after a few episodes I fell hook-line-and-sinker into what is an incredibly well crafted story about the human condition: greed, lust, loyalty, ambition, betrayal... you name it, it has it all. What it has in common with other amazing writing (e.g. Breaking Bad) is realistic (i.e. human)…

Right. I had read the book in the days they were published and found them damn good in their realm, but when I heard that there was a TV serial about it, I didn't even bother giving it a try. Then hype started, but hype has a negative influence on me, it is the best to get me not to watch/read/listen/do something :-) .

So it was only after a number of years that I started watching the serial. I had no hope for it, but I found the first episodes unexpectedly great, and then again and again. Well of course, as usual it went down when the book material went thin and finally ran out, and ended in a wreck, but still the first seasons were up to the hype. The only thing I may have against it is the abuse of colour filters: a cheap, too cheap, trick to build a mood, give a graphical style, or like in this case indicate a setting, that way too many directors use and abuse.

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

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Post by brainlessdev » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:54 PM UTC

The reMarkable 2 tablet! As long as you don't expect it to do more than what it's designed for, I've been loving using it and it's helped me enjoy writing a lot more.

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

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Post by throw0101a » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:54 PM UTC

LordNight wrote: post #26

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…

>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. Interesting. About 10 years ago I was tired of modern cinema and completely stopped watching new films. After some pause I decided to start watching classic cinema from 1930 onward in more or less chronological order…

> In general, the quality of 1932-1942 american cinema (and, to a lesser degree, 1945-1950) far exceeded my expectations.

Survivorship bias? I'm sure there was as much schlock produced back then as there is now, it's just we elevated the best and have forgotten the rest.

Revisiting the bad stuff is the entire premise of MST3K:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000

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

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Post by Waterluvian » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

World of Warcraft. I grew up with WC1 and 2 being just childhood defining games. WoW let me explore endless hours of childhood imagination of what the world was like. And it was everything I hoped it could be. Exploring was amazing.

The gameplay was okay.

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

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Post by Daishiman » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

slumdev wrote: post #346

Mad Men. Solid to the end. Last few seasons answered a lot of questions. Don's devolution accelerated into a spectacular finale. Donald Trump. Love him or hate him, he did actually deliver on many of his promises. Some speculate he followed through because he views relationships as transactional.

Wait, what promises did he deliver on that were his headliners? I am legitimately curious.

Wall? Nope, been assigned far less money, very ineffective. Jobs? The trend that started with Obama worsened and got obliterated by the pandemic.

Global respect? Nope.