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I'm pretty sure my wife watches it with me only for Jared jokes.
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The Dave posted:I'm pretty sure my wife watches it with me only for Jared jokes. same but jian yang
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Jun 9, 2016 21:37
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Jared will finally get his apartment back, but Bachman will lose his house and have to move in with him.
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panda clue posted:same but jian yang Hello this is your mom you are not my son
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I still don't see how Bighead blew through $20m. House payment was prob "only" $18k/mo, moving the pool another $150k and a new Potato cannon should have only been another $1m.
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extravadanza posted:Hello this is your mom you are not my son Is your refrigerator running? This is Mike Hunt.
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Keyser S0ze posted:I still don't see how Bighead blew through $20m. House payment was prob "only" $18k/mo, moving the pool another $150k and a new Potato cannon should have only been another $1m. The business manager set aside 70% for "taxes." So, he really only blew through ~6mil. edit: I can math.
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nexous posted:The business manager set aside 70% for "taxes." So, he really only blew through ~6mil. Then Big Head will get all but probably 40% of that back once he files. Our little guy will be fine! Or he can sue the broker/dealer the business manager worked for and they'll just pay him off out of their fidelity bond. You guys probably don't get the joke since it was about taxes and suitability rules with the SEC. Solice Kirsk fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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Jun 9, 2016 22:04
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Oh I thought the advisor only blew the last $3m or something.
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Jun 9, 2016 22:07
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The derails itt have gotten particularly spiteful recently.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:The derails itt have gotten particularly spiteful recently. People complain about Richard being unlikeable but next to most of the real-life IT people itt he's...idk, who's famously likeable? Paul Rudd?
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Jun 9, 2016 22:25
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Keyser S0ze posted:Oh I thought the advisor only blew the last $3m or something. 35% (7 million) was spent on taxes, 7 million was stolen by the business manager, leaving 6. We know Bighead rented a Palo Alto mansion, filled it with rented toys and antiques, hired an assistant, and moved a swimming pool 6" twice. Bachman spent 1.5 million on the party and the blog, was renting a helicopter, and bought 3 of what I assume is a $10,000 juicer. So yeah, that sounds about right.
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Jun 9, 2016 22:35
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Doesn't Bighead still own Code/Rag? Exclusives with "hot new company" Pied Piper ought to earn him at least some of that money back.
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Jun 9, 2016 23:16
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I thought this was a good read http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley?mbid=social_facebook
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Jun 9, 2016 23:40
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ElCondemn posted:I thought this was a good read Very good quote:Dotan led me to Raviga’s boardroom. He tried two fake outlets before finding a real one, then plugged in his laptop, opened it on a blond-wood conference table, and launched a PowerPoint presentation he had prepared about the show’s research process. “The first part of the job is making sure we get the specifics right, because our audience won’t tolerate any mistakes,” he said. “Silicon Valley,” a show about computer nerds, has a fan base that is particularly attuned to minutiae, and particularly apt to argue about them on the Internet. If a Post-it, URL, or line of code is legible on the show, it will be screengrabbed and scrutinized. Last year, a few hours after an episode aired, a Reddit user with the handle HeIsMyPossum started a thread called “Why did the writers just obliterate all the good karma they had built up with their core audience?” He made an impassioned argument that a plot point—the accidental deletion of data from Pied Piper’s servers—was implausible. “So the files were being converted live while coming through an FTP? And that affects disk deletion speed?… Come the gently caress on guys.” Rob Fuller, a software engineer and a consultant on the show, logged on to Reddit to defend his work, mostly by displaying his own nerd plumage. “Stuff like this happens,” he wrote. “I think even Amazon had an outage because one of the admins fat fingered a DNS or ACL change at one point.” Another user responded to Fuller: “Thanks for engaging us here, we really appreciate it.” The thread amassed nearly three hundred comments. “Sorry for being a dick,” HeIsMyPossum wrote.
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Jun 9, 2016 23:54
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It's ironic because nerds who go to great lengths to analyze this show's technical accuracy are totally fine with the unlikely or exaggerated real-life social situations portrayed in the show because they never experience those.
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Jun 10, 2016 00:19
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I'd like to mention that I had never heard of Slack and still got the joke. Thanks to this thread I've downloaded it. I'd also like to mention the technical arguments in this thread are far superior to many other threads so don't get down on yourselves. Arguing about coding and startups is highly preferable to arguing about duel wielding anime swords in the Game of Thrones thread. At least the arguments in this thread have a practical application. I never need to know how to duel wield swords or the proper phalanx to storm a castle. Stop calling yourselves nerds when LARPers are running around.
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Jun 10, 2016 00:57
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kiimo posted:I'd like to mention that I had never heard of Slack and still got the joke. Thanks to this thread I've downloaded it. Yeah this is my thinking as well. I think it's reasonable to talk tech in a tech show's forum. But whatever, sorry you all had to bear learning some new terms and poo poo!! We should talk Swords instead..
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I just picture some of the characters posting when the thread goes down that discussion path. It works. Truth in parody and all.
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Jun 10, 2016 02:21
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All I learned is that real life IT guys are even more insufferable than a show about lambasting them.
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Jun 10, 2016 02:34
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Solice Kirsk posted:All I learned is that real life IT guys are even more insufferable than a show about lambasting them. nobodys this insufferable in person because it would require confrontation. thats what slack/irc really is, digital passive agressive notes left above the coffee maker.
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Jun 10, 2016 02:58
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Ha! PLEASE USE ONLY ONE COFFEE PACKET AND NOT TWO.
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ElCondemn posted:http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley?mbid=social_facebook quote:During one visit to Google’s headquarters, in Mountain View, about six writers sat in a conference room with Astro Teller, the head of GoogleX, who wore a midi ring and kept his long hair in a ponytail. “Most of our research meetings are fun, but this one was uncomfortable,” Kemper told me. GoogleX is the company’s “moonshot factory,” devoted to projects, such as self-driving cars, that are difficult to build but might have monumental impact. Hooli, a multibillion-dollar company on “Silicon Valley,” bears a singular resemblance to Google. (The Google founder Larry Page, in Fortune: “We’d like to have a bigger impact on the world by doing more things.” Hooli’s C.E.O., in season two: “I don’t want to live in a world where someone makes the world a better place better than we do.”) The previous season, Hooli had launched HooliXYZ, its own “moonshot factory,” whose experiments were slapstick absurdities: monkeys who use bionic arms to masturbate; powerful cannons for launching potatoes across a room. “He claimed he hadn’t seen the show, and then he referred many times to specific things that had happened on the show,” Kemper said. “His message was, ‘We don’t do stupid things here. We do things that actually are going to change the world, whether you choose to make fun of that or not.’ ” (Teller could not be reached for comment.)
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 ...does he wear them all the time? was he going through a phase? does he use one of those hoverboard things lately?
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ElCondemn posted:I thought this was a good read quote:When the scene was finished, Miller walked back to his trailer, where he used a steam inhaler to lubricate his throat. 
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kiimo posted:I'd like to mention that I had never heard of Slack and still got the joke. Thanks to this thread I've downloaded it. You can't storm a castle with a phalanx, it's too unwieldy; it's a formation much better suited to fending off cavalry (or another phalanx) 
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waitwhatno posted:Some people watch SV for the slapstick comedy and nudity, not for the nerd references. Whatever floats your boat. Are you talking about the horses? 
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Pron on VHS posted:This thread is loving unreadable for non-nerds THIS... barely a mention of the actual show.
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Thanks for posting the article. The amount of ridiculous things they took from real life is staggering and every new detail I learn about the real life silicon valley kind of makes me legit angry.the escape goat posted:
Rocksicles posted:THIS... barely a mention of the actual show.
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The gently caress are all you whiny shits doing here? Jesus christ. Inkspot posted:Doesn't Bighead still own Code/Rag? Exclusives with "hot new company" Pied Piper ought to earn him at least some of that money back. I'm still holding out that that one goon's right and Gavin will pay him millions to retract the article.
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VagueRant posted:How do these guys get by without having a modicum of self awareness? Money is a pretty good insulator from reality.
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the talent deficit posted:... Kemper said. “His message was, ‘We don’t do stupid things here. We do things that actually are going to change the world, whether you choose to make fun of that or not.’ ” (Teller could not be reached for comment.) God gently caress this was funny.
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Reading these articles and hearing the tech people talk in this thread are making me realize they are toning everything down to make it more palatable to ordinary viewers for the show. Which is amazing because everyone in the show seems to have their head up their own rear end and is completely useless in normal human interactions...except Jared...who is made fun of constatntly because he is nice and can hold a conversation.
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Jun 10, 2016 15:31
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:God gently caress this was funny. I have a strong urge to bully that man and take his lunch money.
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Jun 10, 2016 15:36
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That's probably what drove him to be the man he is now. Bullying works people! Brings out the best in everybody!
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sticklefifer posted:It's ironic because nerds who go to great lengths to analyze this show's technical accuracy are totally fine with the unlikely or exaggerated real-life social situations portrayed in the show because they never experience those. Its ironic, because there is basically zero technical accuracy in the show, but the social side of the show is pretty much spot on.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Reading these articles and hearing the tech people talk in this thread are making me realize they are toning everything down to make it more palatable to ordinary viewers for the show. Which is amazing because everyone in the show seems to have their head up their own rear end and is completely useless in normal human interactions...except Jared...who is made fun of constatntly because he is nice and can hold a conversation. in terms of social interaction, guilfoyle and dinesh would be massive improvements over most of my past coworkers in silicon valley
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the escape goat posted:
Apparently, yes: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130518/ISSUE01/305189963/the-biography-of-googles-x-man posted:“He's a brilliant technologist,” says David Andre, who met Mr. Teller 20 years ago when both were studying artificial intelligence as undergraduates at Stanford University and Mr. Teller was a rollerblading longhair. “But what he does better than anybody I've ever met is 'dominoing.' Not just logical facts. Everyone can do that. But thinking farther ahead in research and business chess than anyone I've ever seen.” 
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drat, just go all the way and get some of those tennis shoes that have the deployable wheels in the soles.
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Electromax posted:drat, just go all the way and get some of those tennis shoes that have the deployable wheels in the soles. Wrong, he has already gone all the way, deployable wheels are a half measure!
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