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Postal Parcel posted:This is nerd face nerdsploitation! There's a great thread in D&D about this. The woman who ran/co-opted/stole the #occupy twitter account who is also a software engineer is exactly like the people being parodized in the show: completely bought in to the company tech cult, better apps/software can cure all the world's ills, etc. She started a "campaign" to have Eric Schmidt named the CEO of America because Innovation! This show reminded me very strongly of that. Uh the actor that is playing Peter Gregory is dead now? zoux fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 20:07
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zoux posted:Uh the actor that is playing Peter Gregory is dead now? Yeah, Christopher Evan Welch died of lung cancer in December. He filmed all of his scenes for this season before his death, but it's still a shame. It looks like he was going to be an important long-term character on the show. 
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Apr 7, 2014 20:34
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I wonder if they'll recast or kill off the character? You know, to sound as callous as possible.
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Apr 7, 2014 20:40
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Man this show physically hurt. It's like injecting a year of reading Hacker News straight into my sensory cortex. I mean it had not-Peter-Theil, not-Eric-Schmidt, and even actual Erir Schmidt, and they're all as lovely as ever. I'm gonna have to keep watching just to see if they get absolutely every horrible thing about startup culture into this show's run. Also why is Grindr becoming mainstream knowledge...it's kinda embarrassing.
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I wasn't even aware until now that Grindr is a real thing.
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hcreight posted:I wasn't even aware until now that Grindr is a real thing. Tinder is the hetero version of Grindr.  Edit: Looks like they put up a site for Pied Piper. http://www.piedpiper.com/#hello Its responsive and everything. Shadowhand00 fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 22:57
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Grindr has been extremely mainstream for maybe a year if not longer.
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Storgar posted:This link is also painfully true. God I am going to go insane and die of boredom here. HBO released the pilot on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkmsI54ss4 The gawker story about a man walking through the Bay Area via El Camino Real is spot on, it's basically 90% bland low density suburbia even though the cities like SF and Oakland have some actually unique spots. Even though ironically the massive infusion of boring tech dollars is even changing the unique spots through things such as the Starbucks effect. Also all the big name companies like Facebook or Google are jokingly referred to cult compounds by locals since the whole startup culture is pretty much focused at spending the whole day in the parallel universe. It's pretty much why the companies provide such over the top amenities such as free lunch/shuttles/all types of snacks/full service gym since they want their employees to stay at work cranking out product and also develop a cult like admiration for the overpaid founders of the startup.
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Apr 7, 2014 23:50
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etalian posted:HBO released the pilot on Youtube: Speaking of Gawker, Valleywag is always a fun entertaining read - http://valleywag.gawker.com/ that I assume this show will take a lot of cues from.
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Shadowhand00 posted:Speaking of Gawker, Valleywag is always a fun entertaining read - http://valleywag.gawker.com/ that I assume this show will take a lot of cues from. This is great, basically the crime blotter equivalent of tech startup weirdo stories. Veskit posted:Perfect pilot, and it really hits what it's like there, even down to the loving super ugly 50s/60s style house they're programming in. Makes me not miss home. another fun fact for people not familiar with the Bay Area, it has really ancient housing stock since the whole ever increasing prices provides incentive to never build new houses or even make improvements. So basically you get a ugly rear end ranch house from the 1950s or 1960s which would sell in a heartbeat around $1.5 to $2 million dollars in the more snobbish areas like Palo Alto. etalian fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 23:58
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etalian posted:It's pretty much why the companies provide such over the top amenities such as free lunch/shuttles/all types of snacks/full service gym since they want their employees to stay at work cranking out product and also develop a cult like admiration for the overpaid founders of the startup. We also do it because really attractive perks may not cost the company much at all, but to a candidate might be what makes them choose us. Good developers can be a chore to find and hire, and some bite on silly stuff like expansive free beer selection or free Spotify premium.
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The Dave posted:Grindr has been extremely mainstream for maybe a year if not longer. As soon as Stephen Fry brought it up on Top Gear it went mainstream. That was 2010.
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Man, as soon as Kid Rock went "gently caress these people" I knew this was going to be amazing. I had to physically stop watching at some points because it was funny, painful, or a combination of both. Also the housemates are goony as gently caress.
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ultramiraculous posted:Man this show physically hurt. It's like injecting a year of reading Hacker News straight into my sensory cortex. I mean it had not-Peter-Theil, not-Eric-Schmidt, and even actual Erir Schmidt, and they're all as lovely as ever. I'm gonna have to keep watching just to see if they get absolutely every horrible thing about startup culture into this show's run. Was I sleeping when they mentioned Grindr? Shadowhand00 posted:Tinder is the hetero version of Grindr. Also, that website is great. SaaS, "cloud", multi-platform functionality, it's really real. Nothing but buzzwords without coming off as "I'll create a GUI interface using visual basic and see if I can track an IP address" 
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Postal Parcel posted:Was I sleeping when they mentioned Grindr? You are not far off about Grindr being for bears.
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EL BROMANCE posted:As soon as Stephen Fry brought it up on Top Gear it went mainstream. That was 2010. That's where I found out about it. The best part is on some shots you can see someone rushing to turn off there phone.
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etalian posted:You are not far off about Grindr being for bears. I feel like that would be more for Stubble. (Disclaimer: I've only known of Stubble for a couple of months. )
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Postal Parcel posted:Was I sleeping when they mentioned Grindr? Not-Eric-Schmidt said he knows about Grindr: "I have gay friends!". I think this was after his assistant called it an app for gay people to find anonymous sex in public bathrooms. etalian posted:You are not far off about Grindr being for bears. That's more Scruff's prescribed territory.
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Certain people naturally didn't like being targeted by the show: http://recode.net/2014/04/03/at-hbos-silicon-valley-premiere-elon-musk-is-pissed/ also 
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Apr 8, 2014 02:29
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etalian posted:Certain people naturally didn't like being targeted by the show: quote:I was just having a meeting with my information security team, and they’re great but they’re pretty loving weird — one used to be a dude, one’s super small, one’s hyper-smart — that’s actually what it is 
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lol Then, Musk made the observation that the geeks are without the same social aspirations as those in the entertainment industry, an aspect which he thought the show completely missed. “The parties in Silicon Valley are amazing because people don’t care about how they’re perceived socially, which I don’t think Mike [Judge] got. Hollywood is a place where people always care about what the public will think of them … and the show felt more like that,” he said. “I’ve lived in Hollywood 12 years, and I’ve never been to a loving good party.”
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Musk reached for a bacon waffle and proclaimed that he would take Judge to Burning Man this year.
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This looks like a fun party, no need to travel all the way to LA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J23ENOcTcc
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Good Will Hrunting posted:I'm not sure if I laughed harder at the bike meeting or the doctor pitching his start-up. The cast is phenomenal. Oh yeah, and the show is great.
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The doctor by the way is played by Andy Daly who is starring in his own excellent show on Comedy Central, Review with Forrest McNeil.
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Holy poo poo. This show keeps getting better and better after finding out that all of the absurd poo poo that happened in the pilot actually happens in that world. Seriously, bike meetings are a real thing? 
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Apr 8, 2014 06:53
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I just saw the pilot and I am extremely disappointed (in myself). Nothing in this show made me laugh. I'm too used to the culture. 
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Really need to thank the show for helping make a point to a group of friends, the timing was impeccable. I was in the US for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago and swung by to visit a couple of friends in San Jose, one of them worked at google, and the other with Facebook, I then had the chance to attend a really lovely but large party and literally everyone I met was part of some startup and it seemed surreal to me (some of them even tried to pitch me their startups). I was just with a group of friends talking about this weird crazy unique culture, then we decided to watch the show and It was incredible how spot on it was with everything I mentioned.
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Wait, bike meetings are real? Hahaha wow. I also love that article about Elon Musk at the premier.
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Living on the east coast and working for a few tech corporations has given me the scent of the kinds of people in this show, but not the full experience thankfully. Though I have been pitched startups by coworkers who literally could not give me a description of what their goal was. "Make app, get money" is the only goal most startups have it seems.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Wait, bike meetings are real? Hahaha wow. I also love that article about Elon Musk at the premier. The burning man stuff was stuff right out of the onion. A self-congratulatory masturbation session for the one percenters.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Wait, bike meetings are real? Hahaha wow. I also love that article about Elon Musk at the premier. The way they travel in packs - that part's real as well.
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etalian posted:This looks like a fun party, no need to travel all the way to LA: Minor point, but Silicon Valley is outside of SF, not LA. Didn't anybody look at where the Poké Center was on Google Maps Pokémon? God.
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Apr 8, 2014 16:21
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Good show, it's like Big Bang Theory, but written by and for intelligent people.
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Shadowhand00 posted:I was the only one in the theater who laughed at the ME3 finale joke
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I'm so excited for this show going forward, it's built entirely upon a King of the Hill dream team and the stellar cast full of comedians I really like. It's too bad the guy playing Peter Gregory died, because even in 3 minutes of screentime it was readily apparent that he could play an incredible weirdo.
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sleepingbuddha posted:Good show, it's like Big Bang Theory, but written by and for intelligent people. The only real similarity between this and TBBT is that it has supposedly smart/autistic people as the main characters. TBBT is "how do these nerds survive in the normal world" and Silicon Valley is " how do these nerds survive in the nerd world ".
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Exploder posted:Holy poo poo. This show keeps getting better and better after finding out that all of the absurd poo poo that happened in the pilot actually happens in that world. Seriously, bike meetings are a real thing? Relentlessboredomm posted:Wait, bike meetings are real? Hahaha wow. I also love that article about Elon Musk at the premier. In fact the bike model in the episode looks like the same one as on Google's campus. They may have borrowed it. Cicero fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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