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

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

Zach Woods is incredible. "Can't you see... You're each other's best friends."

the conversation between erlich, bighead, and the DA was #death

Jared w the chicken stats

I just watched all of this in about a week. Jared is one of the best sitcom characters of the decade.

I know exactly where it is. It's. In. The. Bay.

some mathcore nerd mc needs to sample that pronto

"It's a war of all against all"

Yes. The egg hatching line. All time.

gosh that was a fairly rushed episode, huh? from "no, we can't test the beta yet!" to "okay here we are, launching"

jian yang crank calling bachmann

this is your mother... you are not my baby

^^^ all-time top 10 moments of SV imo

Middleditch was at the Cinespia showing of Mean Girls (at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in LA).

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13346896_10153476003876216_215355522207741192_n.jpg?oh=26ebdc23947850e45f986df289e1d7d9&oe=57D299AB

There's another pic of him making the same hand sign.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkSQG-hUoAEsreb.jpg%3Alarge

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkSQG-hUoAEsreb.jpg

amazing

i can't imagine why monica had a problem with the interface

i guess the idea is that they only sent it out to techie nerd friends and she's not that - so it could be that the appeal for the general pop is going to be limited?

well yeah! I mean look at that fuckin' thing!

yeah that is clearly not a non-geek tool

An online compression platform doesn't sound like it would be a consumer-facing product anyway. UI seems fine for what it is...

btw any SV fans who don't regularly listen to CBB - middleditch did an imo v funny ep w/ laura lapkis last year called 'kid detectives' def worth checking out http://www.earwolf.com/episode/kid-detectives/ -- there's a part 2 that isn't as good

Pied Piper sounds like the kind of thing you sell to a Dropbox or YouTube. I guess consumer-facing in that they could combine those services plus Flickr with lower overhead?

if i could mail you a full length film and you were able to receive and open and play it immediately, would you pay $5 a month for that? I would.

but i presume the sales are intended toward small businesses so that you can share multi-gig files instantaneously.

this is supposed to be some thing for zillions of ppl to just share files with friends and not think about it, that is the worst possible interface and only tech nerdos would be "hmm yes good default interface"

this thing is going to bomb hard

like they're not even aiming at small biz now, they're like "it's for EVERYONE" what a clusterfuck in the making

jian yang is the best

^^^

it's gonna turn out they need those marketing guys after all

well, people who are used to developing products for a target market, not necessarily the marketing weirdos they had

I <3 Jared

get in line

Pied Piper UI is straight out of the nerd-supplied non-UIs for things like ffmpeg and Handbrake. User forums filled with "I don't understand any of these settings - I just want to watch this pirated movie on my phone" posts

yeah, that's undoubtedly where we're headed next ep. My guess would be we see the return of Dang in a much larger role.

middleditch did an imo v funny ep w/ laura lapkis

Lauren Lapkus

sry; thk u

this is your mom

you are not my baby

still loling at that tbh

what was the other one?

is your refrigerator still running? this is mike hunt.

something like that. so good

Yeah that was it!

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley

this paragraph

Roger McNamee, who has been a successful tech investor since the late eighties, told me, “When I first met Mike, I asked him, ‘What’s the gestalt you’re going for with this?’ His answer was, ‘I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.’ I had never articulated it that well myself, and I lived it!” McNamee recently wound down his most recent venture fund, which he co-founded with Bono; he now spends most of his time touring the country with his two jam bands, Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System. He continued, “Some of us actually, as naïve as it sounds, came here to make the world a better place. And we did not succeed. We made some things better, we made some things worse, and in the meantime the libertarians took over, and they do not give a damn about right or wrong. They are here to make money.”

show seems to skewer both the hippie and libertarian values. or it at least skewers how both are realized

(but I guess it's accurate in terms of values. "Steve Jobs" vs. "Ayn Rand" threw me off because it sounds like one asshole versus another, which the show also does a good job of capturing with facets of Gavin and Erlich.)

not sure I'd make this argument but you could perhaps argue that both are utopian ideologies motivated, at bottom, by selfishness. maybe not as far apart as it would seem.