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I really enjoyed this episode. The Peter Gregory cicada tangent was pretty entertaining.
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Only bad thing I have to say about this show is 30 minutes isn't enough
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Apr 21, 2014 13:24
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I liked this episode a lot better than last week's.
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Apr 21, 2014 13:32
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GILFOIL GILFOIL GILFOIL GILFOIL
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Apr 21, 2014 16:03
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Typical illegal.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:20
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Great episode. Pied piper is an awful name, though at least different to the tedious web 2.0 ones. Re github: They do offer private hosting, though there's no reason for publicising that you have a repo if its not public, so odd.
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Apr 21, 2014 17:13
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Fateo McMurray posted:Only bad thing I have to say about this show is 30 minutes isn't enough Yeah, same. I could watch this show for hours. Dinesh is loving hilarious.
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Apr 21, 2014 17:30
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This show is pretty great. Comedy-wise, I think Gilfoyle getting the green card so quickly was funny but afaik that'd never happen irl right
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Apr 21, 2014 17:51
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Of course not. This show is about jokes first, realism second.
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Apr 21, 2014 18:31
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Picked up for a second season.
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Apr 21, 2014 21:33
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Nice, Veep and Silicon Valley are both great. I thought Erlich was about to say "time is a flat circle" which would have been great but he said "time is a sphere" instead (I'm sure the episode was written before True Detective aired but still  )
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Apr 22, 2014 00:15
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wooger posted:Great episode. Pied piper is an awful name, though at least different to the tedious web 2.0 ones. Whoa really that's crazy did you know CSIs don't always carry guns and interrogate suspects?
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What's the name of the song that plays at the end of episode three? e: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpfudOZ_pjU funny way to spell fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Apr 22, 2014 |
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Apr 22, 2014 05:26
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tbp posted:This show is pretty great. Comedy-wise, I think Gilfoyle getting the green card so quickly was funny but afaik that'd never happen irl right I got a green card (well K1 visa then green card). It took 6 months+ and that was starting before 9/11.
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Apr 22, 2014 21:12
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RentACop posted:I don't think this show knows how cicadas work It also doesn't know how the world sesame seed market works either. Brazil isn't even in the top ten producers. That being said, this show was the best so far.
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Apr 23, 2014 19:25
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Weren't they talking about getting US citizenship? I assume that is harder & takes longer than getting perm resident status (green card).
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Apr 23, 2014 19:56
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Holy crap, people. It was a joke about America being institutionally racist.
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Apr 23, 2014 19:57
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Did you guys do this with office space too?
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Apr 23, 2014 20:06
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Veskit posted:Did you guys do this with office space too? No because Office Space was 100% accurate.
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Apr 23, 2014 20:11
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I think we all get that it was a joke and that this show is a comedy. Personally I thought that was the funniest part of the episode.
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Apr 23, 2014 20:32
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thathonkey posted:I think we all get that it was a joke and that this show is a comedy. Personally I thought that was the funniest part of the episode.
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Apr 23, 2014 21:09
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I didn't understand the love for the Angel Investor guy, but that sesame seed tangent was fantastic. I really thought he was just going to waste everyones time and fire the two guys who were bothering him all day, but I much prefer the direction it went.
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Apr 23, 2014 21:34
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I just loved that he's so out of touch that he called hamburger buns breadings, even after being corrected.
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Apr 24, 2014 05:56
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I like this show buy why would something like that be worth anything considering the speed of the internet today and the price of hard drive space.
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LividLiquid posted:You get it. I get it. But people are debating the joke's basis in reality. If this show strived for 100% technical accuracy, it would only appeal to the lead programmer from Grandma's Boy, and nobody wants that show.
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Harminoff posted:I like this show buy why would something like that be worth anything considering the speed of the internet today and the price of hard drive space. Secondly, and to undermine my first point by arguing on your playing field where it does matter, you seriously can't understand why lossless compression wouldn't be a huge loving deal?
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Apr 24, 2014 06:54
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the music industry alone would be hyped about it. Recording experts bemoan what is lost in the compression to mp3 format and if they had the chance to market and manage a superior platform from out of the gate it would be big.
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Harminoff posted:I like this show buy why would something like that be worth anything considering the speed of the internet today and the price of hard drive space. If you're a business providing downloads or streaming video, your main non-wage overheads are going to be storage, servers and bandwidth. Literally halving those costs with massively improved compression is a huge loving deal.
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Apr 24, 2014 11:31
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I'm not sure why, but I really appreciate their going with a real, plausible product that really would have a large impact. When other shows cover a game-changing or award-winning product, it's often something silly or unbelievable, and you usually have to just take for granted that people in that world are buying into it. On 30 Rock, for example, the TGS sketches we saw were all uniformly horrible, and you just had to accept that it had enough of an audience to last that long. It makes sense, because hey, if you really had a great idea for a show or product, why would you be wasting it on a half-hour comedy? Whereas I can completely believe the hype over a revolutionary compression algorithm, and it's a nice black box they can use without actually having to invent the algorithm.
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Apr 24, 2014 11:35
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Fatkraken posted:If you're a business providing downloads or streaming video, your main non-wage overheads are going to be storage, servers and bandwidth. Literally halving those costs with massively improved compression is a huge loving deal. Yeah like even if it only saves you 2 cents per song download, if you get a million downloads each week then that's over $1 million per year saved. (And I think iTunes gets something like 50 million songs downloaded per week, so you can see how it adds up)
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Apr 24, 2014 13:14
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It's a believable and relatable technology. If you could download thousands of songs for a few megabytes or whatever the magic compression ratio is, and apply that to all media, the internet and all electronic data would immediately be improved dramatically.
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Apr 24, 2014 13:15
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So pretty much we could watch porn faster, right?
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Apr 24, 2014 13:33
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That's actually where it might get the most use.
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lifts cats over head posted:So pretty much we could watch porn faster, right? Twice the porn twice as fast without lovely artifacting! The Dave posted:That's actually where it might get the most use. Porn is usually the first adopter of nascent tech anyways. Oh god the episode were they go to a porn convention ~douche chills~ to the max.
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KidDynamite posted:Twice the porn twice as fast without lovely artifacting! and xfinity caps
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Apr 24, 2014 13:46
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Yeah, imagine how much Netflix would pay for a technology like Pied Piper. ISPs are doing their damnedest to charge Netflix more money because of their bandwidth usage, so if they could reduce that by a sizable chunk without sacrificing quality, they'd be all over it.
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Hulu, Amazon, Google, Netflix, hell Akamai? They would go loving nuts for that algorithm and they aren't even a video streaming service, they just host EVERYTHING.
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jerkstoresup posted:It's a believable and relatable technology. If you could download thousands of songs for a few megabytes or whatever the magic compression ratio is, and apply that to all media, the internet and all electronic data would immediately be improved dramatically. Relatable, yes. Believable, no. In the first episode when the programmers were looking at it the screen showed the uncompressed file size as being 25 megs. The baseline FLAC was 4 megs and the Pied Piper compressed file was 1.2 megs and took .83 seconds to decompress. If someone could come up with a compression routine that was lossless, had an average of a 20:1 compression ratio, and be super fast to compress and decompress then it would be revolutionary. It wouldn't be something that someone would just stumble upon. Even if they did stumble upon it, I can't see how they wouldn't realize what they have is revolutionary. That's my main problem with concept especially since the main character just comes across as pretty incompetent. The premise doesn't seem like something that can sustain itself for a long period. Guy has great idea. Guy goes up against a giant corporation to do his own thing and meets stumbling blocks along the way, but is helped by his friends and investor to succeed. Plus he'll probably inadvertently win the heart of the girl along the way. He also needs to patent his compression algorithm.
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Turmoil posted:The premise doesn't seem like something that can sustain itself for a long period. are we watching the same show? I'm not convinced the "good guys" are going to win out, hell, I'm not sure we're meant to be on ANYONE'S side, pretty much everyone is a bit of a twat in one way or another. Look at how the main dude dealt with the irrigation guy. While nowhere near as vitriolic so far, this thing is closer to Nathan Barley than Big Bang Theory
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To me the show seems to be using the Arrested Development approach. None of the characters are really good people, they're just varying degrees of bad.
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