Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" (HBO Show)

i feel like they are interested in shortening time between plot developments which leaves a lot of potential comedy feeling like it goes by the wayside but also makes it feel like there's a real purposeful meanderingness to the plot lol

the continual failures are getting a bit exasperating,

otmfm, it wd be nice to see the plot progress just a little w/o the excruciating tension of constant and often improbable fuckups

I was wracked with nervousness this week because I expected everything to turn terrible again before the end and they were running out of time

So now I feel worried about how soon Richard will fuck things up as CEO next week

mike judge may secretly be my favorite comedy creator. i am wondering how hands on he is on an episode by episode basis

iirc from a radio interview, he is in the room for breaking story, then goes back to Austin for the writing & pre-production periods, flying in for the weeks he directs episodes

that sounds about right.
the bones are solid but the post milch hbo method of kick the can forward first, creator's great plan second means that these shows are uneven in terms of character development even tho' they maintain flavor
i dunno if that's a criticism; it's amazing they have such a high batting average

at the moment i mean
remember the halcyon days of mind of the married man and carnivale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_DSOnOQnuk

"homosexuality being defined as insanity in the DSM" lol.

that was funny but i was hoping it was 4 minutes of them pronouncing "Aviato" at each other.

"the second run of Beavis & Butthead"

otmfm, it wd be nice to see the plot progress just a little w/o the excruciating tension of constant and often improbable fuckups

Tbh, this is pretty much the theme of so much good TV these days. "The Excruciating Tension of Constant and Often Improbable Fuckups" is like a subgenre unto itself.

"Hunger is the best sauce." Dying.

Great ep. "I guess Russ was right..."

"Jared. Nice. Using that dick."

a+ delivery on that one

Zach Woods nailed the response, too. Small moment, but maybe the funniest thing the show has done

a lot of this show's best moments are small things w/ delivery and brief asides that you can miss if you blink too quickly. the plot's constant motion is a plus, IMO, for delivering this kind of stuff

My favorite blink-and-you-miss-it joke this ep was Bachmann sneaking the Three Comma alcohol into the restaurant to save money in the intro

Yeah for a show that's so broad and cartoony it really nails the small character stuff

kudos to middleditch for making every 'm'lady' more painful + awkward than the last

Reminded me of a favorite Amy Schumer skit about m'ladies, skewering needy dorky guys who use that term.

Jared's "stuffed animal"

He is right about the tabs vs spaces thing. though.

oh god, the team interacting with women is so bad

https://github.com/Stitchpunk

!!

watching episode and seeing these comments as Richard is having a full on hissy fit is awesome

Jared's "stuffed animal"

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this was so great, i think jared's my favorite character. loved that russ was right - this guy fucks.

he seems so sad + damaged :(

damaged yes, but sad? no. he is consistently the most optimistic character on the show.

but in a v sad way - or maybe he's not sad but he makes me feel sad

this episode made me think about how sad it must be to a be a single woman in silicon valley

think you can strike "single" from that

lol true

He is right about the tabs vs spaces thing. though.

not really. theoretically i like the idea of using a tab and letting the editor decide, but in practice it doesn't work out so nicely. take the following example where tabs are used to set the indentation level and spaces for alignment; when changing the tabsize from 4 to 2, we get misaligned code:

    1 int f(int x,        1 int f(int x,
    2 --->..int y) {      2 ->..int y) {
    3 --->return g(x,     3 ->return g(x,
    4 --->--->--->.y);    4 ->->->.y);
    5 }                   5 }

also lol at the show for bring this so-called "holy war" to the mainstream, i've already gotten texts from non-programmers asking which i side with

The answer is to not change the tab size (4 spaces forever!). And don't bother with newlines in an argument list when your variables are single-character.

TABS

if you have a whitespace aligned language then spaces are the only choice. this is important.

omggg https://github.com/Stitchpunk?tab=activity

Can't decide if Jared or Bighead is the best character.

Probably Jared.

Definitely Jared.

omggg https://github.com/Stitchpunk?tab=activity

― germane geir hongro (s.clover), Tuesday, May 31, 2016

legit

baghead 4 life

lost it at the PR with a code of conduct

i liked the (accurate) detail of it blowing a gale outside alcatraz for the hawaii party

making alcatraz not look like a jail, combined with going insolvent, a++

All the alcatraz stuff was v accurate

Massive blooper in the episode was that using space characters doesn't mean you keep whacking the space bar over and over. You set up your editor/IDE so that the tab key produces 4 spaces. Total credibility fail.

uh yeah but if you were trying to clown someone who hates spaces you would do exactly that

She wasn't intentionally clowning him at first though? Maybe I missed something.

have we officially hit the point where we've realized he's the younger version of the hooli ceo

this episode was bighead's time to shine