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Posting from my dingy cubicle wooo I dunno know about the startup scene, but there are definitely not enough Indian and Asian dudes in the show. Also, I hope they do some segments about what it's like in Silicon Valley Corporate, because it's soul-crushingly boring here. Also, everyone is fat and old and lovely. 
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The part I was confused about was companies/investors giving big money for 'algorithms' or 'software stacks'. They just throw money at user-base numbers, even if the 'software' is all just borrowed shareware.
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PowerBuilder3 posted:The part I was confused about was companies/investors giving big money for 'algorithms' or 'software stacks'. They just throw money at user-base numbers, even if the 'software' is all just borrowed shareware. Companies pay big money for just software all of the time (e.g., Apple with Lala).
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I'm sure the "we have 1 million users but no clue how to extract money from them" story will show up by the end of S1.
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Apr 10, 2014 14:10
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Yeah apple likes to buy popular services that they can kill and massage into their own first party solutions. poo poo didn't they even hire the jailbreak dev for his notification banners?
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Craig might not bring the numbers, but he's got a passionate following. If he's gone, I'm sure he'll land on his feet somewhere. If nothing else, I'd love to see him write another book. I was pretty big on Between the Bridge and the River.
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Alan Smithee posted:I'm still weirded out by the heckler scene at the Ted talk, it comes across like a "creationism vs professor" moment, made weirder because they both act like strawmen for...what exactly? Just poking fun at eccentric computer science academic types.
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This was not as funny as I hoped it would be, but it strikes too close to home to let me look away. I've had the "we are making the world a better place" talk for an SDK, and Erlich talking about his previous work reminds me so much of a certain individual that made me feel weird watching those scenes  The only thing that made me roll my eyes was the "brogrammer" bit. It was just scraping the bottom of the barrel that TBBT left behind, which is weird because the rest of the show was so much better. It felt as if it was there just because it's a thing techies say, and they had to make it literal because who knows why. e: So glad Elun Musk doesn't post here. Rexides fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Apr 11, 2014 |
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Apr 11, 2014 12:59
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Did people complain a lot about Mike Judge scraping the bottom of the barrel/going for the easy joke in regards to king of the hill texan/middle america jokes, or are people just more sensitive when it comes to this show? I honestly can't tell.
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Veskit posted:Did people complain a lot about Mike Judge scraping the bottom of the barrel/going for the easy joke in regards to king of the hill texan/middle america jokes, or are people just more sensitive when it comes to this show? I honestly can't tell. Nerds become sensitive when it's them being mocked. See:Gamers talk about how inclusive they are until someone says games are x-ist
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I haven't watched King of the Hill, but come on, that "brogrammer" gag was terrible 
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Rexides posted:I haven't watched King of the Hill, but come on, that "brogrammer" gag was terrible I didn't mind it at all. I also don't program or work in the tech industry so this is a bit further away from me than others in this thread. His speech at the end was hilarious. It did a great job showing how these companies get so cultish about themselves and saving the world when even the newbies attempting to break away fall into the same mental trap of "We're going to be different"
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Rexides posted:I haven't watched King of the Hill You should get on that because King of the Hill was utterly fantastic. Seriously, just a great loving show.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:I didn't mind it at all. I also don't program or work in the tech industry so this is a bit further away from me than others in this thread. I loved all the background props and creepy cult posters for the Holli set.
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If this ends up being King Of The Hill for nerds, I'll be pretty satisfied.
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Postal Parcel posted:Nerds become sensitive when it's them being mocked. I really doubt we make it to the end of the season without at least one unironic "nerd blackface  " post.
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Bobfromsales posted:I really doubt we make it to the end of the season without at least one unironic "nerd blackface I just assumed this already happened.
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Lugaloco posted:You should get on that because King of the Hill was utterly fantastic. Seriously, just a great loving show. Several years after cancellation, the TVIV thread is going strong. That says something. No high-fives!
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What's the name of the song in the background
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KyloWinter posted:What's the name of the song in the background Small Stakes by Spoon
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Poor Bighead.
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scary ghost dog posted:Small Stakes by Spoon No I mean the one playing before the stripper walked in. It was maybe some like weird stuff from 2010 or 2011. It was weird electronic type stuff you'd hear on Gorilla v Bear. I know that's the worst description ever e: It's Purity Ring barkbell fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Apr 14, 2014 03:19
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This loving scene, I'm dying over here. Edit: comparing him to Mass Effect 3? Harsh.
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Harsh. The whiteboards at the end looked pretty good.
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Okay, loving Ratatat cover of Biggie Smalls over the credits cemented my love for this show.
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Veskit posted:Did people complain a lot about Mike Judge scraping the bottom of the barrel/going for the easy joke in regards to king of the hill texan/middle america jokes, or are people just more sensitive when it comes to this show? I honestly can't tell. It's weird with tech people complaining the show isn't really super accurate, as if you need a perfect documentarian's lense to satirize something. "I mean, sure we're absurd and navel gazing and disconnected from reality, but in a totally different way! Like, there are way more Asians, and I personally have never participated in a bike meeting." Did these guys think Idiocracy was more realistic and grounded?
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Periodiko posted:It's weird with tech people complaining the show isn't really super accurate, as if you need a perfect documentarian's lense to satirize something. "I mean, sure we're absurd and navel gazing and disconnected from reality, but in a totally different way! Like, there are way more Asians, and I personally have never participated in a bike meeting." Not to mention how real life is dorkier than anything on the show, such as how data mining startup Palantir uses Lord of the Rings themes for everything and even refers to their corporate HQ as the Shire.
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I just watched the pilot and it caused me physical pain for 30 minutes. I love this show.
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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That ME3 joke was pretty bad. There was some forced namedropping of tech terms in this episode, but the show is still great, all in all.
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Darth Windu posted:Okay, loving Ratatat cover of Biggie Smalls over the credits cemented my love for this show. Just watched and was super surprised by this. Also, you know, great show or whatever.
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Apr 14, 2014 05:14
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Doobs is pretty cool, I am glad he is on the show!
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Every single scene with TJ Miller in it is fantastic, holy crap. I'm glad I gave this show a shot, it hooked me really fast.
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LittleFuryThings posted:That ME3 joke was pretty bad. There was some forced namedropping of tech terms in this episode, but the show is still great, all in all. At least most of them are used properly. I'm just starting a "career" in the world of computer science and/or systems engineering (gotta love a sudden and abrupt career change at 30!) but most of what I heard seemed accurate. There were a few things I felt weren't right. When Dinesh said that he was the only one of them that knows how to program in Java, I thought that was odd. Out of four programmers and one systems engineer/programmer, he's the ONLY one that knows Java? Really? And then at the end when Big Head said the Brogrammers had "de-compiled" his code from the proprietary media player Pied Piper used, that didn't seem right. I'm under the impression that, in general, you can't just take, say, the .exe file for the media player (which is likely all it is,) and "decompile" it into any worthwhile piece of code. But, like I said, I'm just a "beginner" in the tech world, so maybe I'm wrong! Also, TJ Miller's character is the one who ordered the stripper/prostitute, he CLEARLY should have paid.
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This episode was much better than the pilot.
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Now I realize I've seen him in a lot of movies but never knew his name. http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/appreciation-silicon-valley-christopher-evan-welch.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw54-yDc6Jg
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Are there actually dudes alive that are this awkward around strippers? Cringe worthy.
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No, that episode went backwards and was dumb. They apparently blew through all the local eccentricities and annoyances jokes in the pilot.
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