I sold my startup and got out of tech and I’m much happier. Didn’t fully understand how miserable the whole industry and the long hours sitting at the computer were making me. Good luck with the new life!
Cliché but woodworking and working on my house! Been learning tons of new things that have nothing to do with coding. I’d probably get into rehabbing/flipping houses before I’d ever go back into tech
I don't think vanguard's core customer base cares about what hungry competitors are doing to entice them to move. Just look at Robinhood: they offered the biggest financial incentive for users to switch of any broker in the industry and I doubt many vanguard customers took them up on that. Stability, trust, and low fees are all buy and hold investors at Vanguard really care about.
I shot a lot of film in the last five years. Production coming up is a good thing but I don't know if it's going to lower prices enough to make it viable for casual use especially when you factor in how absurdly expensive developing and scanning has gotten as all but a few labs remain. Many of us are slowly working through stockpiles from years ago because we can't tolerate the crazy prices film goes for today
I come from quite a small town and to my surprise there are still shops that develop film for roughly the same price point as twenty years ago. I guess they have a lot of those older people who never "got on with the times" and were able to always make a living out of it. Travelling 200km to the big town and prices to develop film more than quadrupled in the same time.
Really nice, and I say that as someone that built a quite popular mobile web framework that duplicated a lot of iOS UI (Ionic). One thing I noticed is the swipe gestures aren’t working. This is all very doable on the web which many people don’t believe. It’s pretty wild what the web platform is capable of, the gap is absolutely with web devs who don’t know how to put the many modern APIs and capabilities into practice.
In my experience the gap is also about supporting a wide range of users and their old or not so powerful devices. Sure polyfills do the job of support but at the cost of bundle size and compute, which may degrade the experience for that particular audience. My number one moto in web app design and development is KISS.
And the amount of fine-tuning done on ios for the various gestures is quite astounding. Re-creating them using browser APIs isn't really entire possible.
You can extremely close if not imperceptibly there for a lot of interactions. The bigger issue is actually mobile browser “chrome” getting in the way (i.e. baked in gestures in mobile browsers)
Agreed. We deliberately avoided them and just used an old fashioned spreadsheet plus lawyers and it worked perfectly fine and wasn’t that expensive. Maybe if you’re huge but at 120 employees this still worked perfectly fine for us. I got really turned off when they started hinting they would use customer data to offer services on top. Sorry but I have no interest in sharing incredibly sensitive data like that to help possible competitors.
Lot of downvoting for having a different opinion in this thread. So people disagree with you and think that warrants a downvote? That's counter to the HN ethos.
I agree with you, don't need to buy new 2024 PC components to have a great gaming PC, that seems to be the counter argument here which just isn't the case
Downvotes for being outright unaware of the GPU market. If you can build me a PS5 equivalent PC build for $500 I'll take you up on that. Cheapest 3080 I could find used was $600 by itself (and that's probably a GPU already ground to dust from mining).
>don't need to buy new 2024 PC components to have a great gaming PC
No, you don't. But if you want to compare a PC to a console, you should use equivalent specs. People who just want a convinient way to play games (not AAA games) can pick up a steam deck for $200-300 and be set for life. But that's not who Sony is targeting.
You’re the one who is unaware of the GPU market here. The 3080 is last generation’s hardware.
If we are comparing equivalent specs, we should note that this new PS5 Pro is not going to be equivalent to mid-high end graphics cards that cost $500.
Many outlets are comparing it to the RX6800 [1], which would put it at around a $380 retail graphics card like an RTX 4060Ti.
It’s $900, but remember that PS5 online play costs $80/year. so you’re breaking even after about 2 years, not counting the cost savings of PC games (I can buy Elden ring for under $50 via cheapshark.com, but it’s $70 on the PS Store)
Also, common components like case, power supply, and storage almost never have to be replaced when a PC is upgraded. Sony is making you throw out all those common components.
Yes, I'm comparing building a machine to to the base ps5. If I'm building my own machine I may as well use an Nvidia card. That's where the costs build up. Eeven a last gen used Nvidia card is more expensive than a pro. It's not even worth talking about the 4000 series if you care at all about costs.
>but remember that PS5 online play costs $80/year.
I don't play online. Sony's done a great job this year giving me less reasons to play as well.
>not counting the cost savings of PC games
This isn't Nintendo. You can get most AAA games half off of you wait 6 months post launch anyways.
Quantity of games doesn't rally matter these days anyways. Gamepass beats both if that's your most important metric.
The base PS5 can be beat with like a sub-$200 GPU or even a computer with high end integrated graphics like a Beelink mini PC or perhaps even a laptop that one may already own.
Quantity of games doesn’t matter but platform compatibility, extensibility, and longevity does. Consoles have compromised modding, no ability to install custom software like open source game engine replacements (OpenMW and OpenTTD), limited support of third party or customized hardware (Stream Deck, specialized simulation hardware, VR, etc).
Consoles make you throw out your old controllers when you get a new system, they often compromise or drop backwards compatibility with previous game libraries, and some even shut down their digital game stores. The PS3 almost shut theirs down before people complained. Now you can only buy games with PS Store balance, direct credit card purchases aren’t supported. The 3DS and WiiU eShop are gone.
And we didn’t even start talking about emulation or mouse and keyboard oriented games that suck on console. The most popular game of all time (Minecraft) is significantly worse on console and can’t be played with the extensive modding available that can completely transform the game (e.g., the Create mod). The Sims is awful with a controller. RimWorld, Stardew Valley, Cities Skylines, the entire survival crafting genre - all better games on mouse and keyboard.
If you really think gen 9 consoles are comparable to a laptop, we aren't really having an honest conversation here. I say this as someone with a $2500 gaming laptop with top end 2021 specs.
I'm not interested in having a console vs. PC debate. I just wanted to emphasize that it's not 2015 anymore and crypto ruined the idea of an affordable high end gaming pc. The good news is that there's plenty of non-aaa games and any pc you pick up for college can probably play older AAA games and indies with no issue. hence why the steam deck is very popular among pc players who wanted some portability. The cheapest gaming is indeed whatever pc or laptop you can pickup, even pre-built.
Power isn't everything, but clearly the ps5 pro and higher end cards are targeting power users. Someone not price sensitive already has some $3k top end gaming rig and won't be convinced of any console (the camp it sounds like you are in). For those that want a taste of that high end but are cost sensitive will probably look towards the PS5 Pro.
Is that a sustainable market? I don't think so. But gen 9's theme has been unsustainability with the devs suffering for the state of the economy (no matter how good or bad your last release was), so this is just on point.
> If you really think gen 9 consoles are comparable to a laptop
I mean, yes, I do. I can run new AAA games on my MacBook Pro via native ports on Steam and the Mac App Store or Crossover.
Hell, Resident Evil 7 runs on a fucking iPhone at this point.
Don't forget that many PS5 games' render resolution is 1080p and under and up to 60FPS. It really isn't that powerful. If you take your gaming laptop and play at 1440p and complain that you're barely getting 60FPS at high/ultra settings, well, you're already outperforming a base PS5.
> crypto ruined the idea of an affordable high end gaming pc.
idk if you have noticed but we aren't at peak crypto GPU prices. This isn't 2022. GPUs are relatively affordable.
> Power isn't everything, but clearly the ps5 pro and higher end cards are targeting power users
PS5 Pro is equivalent to mid-range PC graphics cards. At $700.
If you own a PC right now, let's say it's a similar age to the PS4. You've got an AM4 motherboard with a Ryzen 1000 or 3000 series and a GTX 1080 or 1070 or something like that.
If you spend $700 on an upgrade and get yourself a Ryzen 5700x3D and RX 7900GRE you are vastly outperforming the PS5 Pro. Heck, if your gaming is more GPU bound and your processor still holds up you could skip the processor and buy an RTX 4070 Ti Super for $700. That GPU will positively SMOKE the PS5 Pro.
Yea and if Sony isn't targeting the super budget conscious then who does this target? I don't get it. $700 is too much to buy this console as a gift (say, for a kid), and if you're a passionate gamer then I think the argument that you might start looking at alternatives in the PC space is pretty compelling. For me, I think the PS5 has a real fit in my house especially as my kids play it, and so does my PC which I haven't upgraded in years. I see no reason to buy the PS5 pro given it's in that no mans land price-wise.
Beyond the exclusives, if you're willing to spend this much for a playstation why not just spend a bit more for a nice PC? I have the PS5 but barely play it since the gaming experience on PC is just better and you have a lot more selection and can upgrade it piece by piece as needed over the years, which I'm finding I rarely need to do.
Thanks for the downvotes for pointing out that, as part of the target market for this product, I scratch my head a bit as it touches more in the PC territory than cheaper consoles did in the past. If you bought both this and the PS5 you're already at ~$1200, and a great PC build can be had for close to that. I think it's totally legitimate to point out this starts to encroach on the pc's territory.
>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
reminder.
>If you bought both this and the PS5 you're already at ~$1200
why would I buy both? PS5 probably still sells for more than launch price in the US. I'd basically break even selling it and then proceed to spend $130 on a dang disc drive. So we're still 600-700 dollars in after 4 years.
>I scratch my head a bit as it touches more in the PC territory than cheaper consoles did in the past.
Mostly because PC's stopped enroaching in console territory some 7 years ago or so, when mining became popular. There was a time where you could build a PC for $400 with the equivalent specs of a PS4/XBO. Any premium was to get better performance.
PS5 Pro does start to enroach, but PC components (mostly the GPU, but a few other components as well) have inflated faster than the consoles. Feels like one of the worst times to buy a PC if your argument is price matching a console.
Don't patronize me, you seem to think you're the authority when it comes to how people react to a $700 console when a great gaming PC is in reach, price wise. And you'd buy both because the target for this probably is already on the playstation upgrade path so very likely already owns the PS5. Looking at Twitter I'm hardly the only one that feels this way.
Yeah, additionally it seems really weird that most PC stores in shopping malls don't sell ready made desktops with anything beyond i5 as CPU, one has to go into custom desktops increasing the whole price.
It is no longer the case that buying a regular mid-range desktop PC was good enough for gaming purposes.
I own both PC and consoles for gaming. A console still is way more convenient to play in a big tv. And HDR support is also better. Also plenty of games are terribly optimized on PC.
Looks very cool. I started working on my own version of this to self host in my LAN. First issue I ran into was the lack of understanding certain CSV formats. For example, Vanguard is so common that I support their export format exactly. Might be worth thinking about focusing on a few common brokerages (vanguard, fidelity, schwab) and making the experience for those really good. Otherwise it's all too manual and most people won't bother going through the hassle of it all.
> It also turns out that some smart people figured out maths hacks to draw rounded boxes for super cheap which UI peeps love because with this hack boxes can be so round as to appear as circles
