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

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.

i just started watching this show, it is v. smart and funny, that is all.

Teller ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.”

latimes says tj miller is overrated in silicon valley u_u

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-ca-st-overrated-underrated-20160606-snap-story.html

lol sorry his "bong-fueled wisdom" upsets yr penchant for the subtle comedy that this show is NOT srsly wtf

i first saw Miller in "She's Out of My League" (seriously, not bad!) and he was hilarious in it.

lol this writer likes ANGIE TRIBECA so the "suspect" flag is raised

ding ding ding

he now spends most of his time touring the country with his two jam bands, Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System

kill me now

For a show that devotes a good amount of time to slapstick and gross-out sight gags

huh?

Mr kinder has spent time at certain companies in silicon valley and is frequently amazed at how spot-on the show is, even tiny things you wouldn't nec think about

What stood out?

omg at "doobie decimal system"

Didn't really dig this "let's cultivate some sympathy for Erlich" angle

Until a few days ago I'd only seen the first episode of season 1. My wife did not dig it, and I could totally see why people thought of it as a geek Entourage. I am nearly done season 1 now, and while I think too often at least in season 1 it does rely on broad, low-brow humor for the jokes, there is still a whole lot of really funny stuff scattered throughout. Just saw the episode where Jared's self-driving car ships him off to the middle of the ocean, which was hilarious.

The last episode of season one is where it really goes to another level.

I've seen that bit, though epic or no it's still an elaborate dick joke. Albeit inspired.

iirc the basis of most humor is dick jokes

suffering of others iirc

well, that's what yr dick causes

pesca-pescatarian

while I think too often at least in season 1 it does rely on broad, low-brow humor for the jokes

I've seen that bit, though epic or no it's still an elaborate dick joke. Albeit inspired.

Ffs can you not ruin this thread/show like you did the game of thrones one

erlich on bloomberg with his showoffy pronuciation of "embarcadero" and the lisp on "san francisco" made me lol so hard

unicorn costume omg

xpost The fuck are you talking about?

Like, why be an asshole?

Lol it seems like you don't get this show!

I just finished the first season and loved it.