Source: Been there, seen it, a long time. Spotify needs to be nothing more than a functioning music utility. Instead their US offices are structured like a massive, bloated, 90's style agency party zone.

Trust me.

There is room to cut costs.

Example: Using Javascript to SHOW a modal, but then relying applying addClass('animate') using CSS animations to transition that modal (eg: bottom of screen to center, while fading in) are nearly impossible without tons of hackery. The animations do not render.

Hence jQuery animation calls.

But it's cute. You like Bitcoin. You're a good cheerleader.

So now take NFT artworks, and marketplaces, etc. What's to stop bot networks start creating:

(1) Thousands of shady "shell" marketplaces that visually look, feel, and operate no differently from rarible.com, opensea.io, etc... (2) Taking perfect source copies of artworks and generating billions of sales to unsuspecting users, and logging it all to the blockchain...

Now you've got perfectly "valid" sales and contracts all flooding this giant decentralized blockchain, causing utter mayhem not only for buyers but also the sellers, whose life is now bound by an endless ritual of finding fake marketplaces, fake sellers, sending out DMCAs, and constantly updating their social presences to say "Hey everyone, sales are only legit if they're bought from !"

I feel like this is just one of a million outcomes from simple thought experiments on this and I'm wondering why there is seemingly zero discussion on it or just how hairy this is 100% going to get.

Is there a consensus starting to form? Am I getting it all wrong?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26297394

Points: 5

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But take Unreal for example: you have this absolutely massive world of presets/plugins/etc made by the community. You have Niagara particle systems. You have incredible post-processing / color correction / cinematic grading / etc. You have Blueprints, the ability to write code, etc. You have the entirety of Quixel's megascans, etc. It's almost completely effortless to make unbelievably gorgeous/immersive things, whether it's near-photorealistic environments/landscapes, abstract audio visualizations, full on games, etc.

I'm genuinely trying to understand why anyone who works in interactive/realtime 2D or 3D visualization would ever use Cinder or Processing these days. Thoughts?

From the code I've read, Lua is easy to read and I hear it's really great to write in, and it's performance seems to be quite high.

Comparatively in the startup and SaSS world I almost never hear about it. Is there any profound reason why? Is it because it doesn't quite fit into web technology stacks as well? Is Lua simply better when we're talking about high-performing desktop apps, where the painful alternative is to simply do it all in C/C++/Rust?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26084510

Points: 2

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Sure, talk about your data pipelines or whatever else seems technically engaging, but let's not pretend what you're doing was the result of some stroke of artistic genius in manifesting the spirit of some slideshow presentation your colleagues.