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HBO's original: Silicon Valley... Liking it so far! 'Nerdy entourage'

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Carson Dyle said:
Most of the tech-speak in the show is complete BS, but good enough to make it sound plausible. Easy enough to suspend disbelief. Throw in some industry buzzwords and a few terms from CS 101 and you'll get close enough to make it sound good.
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i disagree. i actually think the authenticity of a lot of it is what makes it so great. there's so much there for people in the industry to get that non-industry people won't get at all. a lot of the stuff in the background on their monitors and stuff is real code with hidden gems in them.

there definitely is some stuff that is total bs though, so i'll agree on that, but i think the overall has a lot of authenticity to it, ESPECIALLY how the industry works and how non-tech people are trying to talk about tech.
 
purbeast0 said:
i disagree. i actually think the authenticity of a lot of it is what makes it so great. there's so much there for people in the industry to get that non-industry people won't get at all. a lot of the stuff in the background on their monitors and stuff is real code with hidden gems in them.

there definitely is some stuff that is total bs though, so i'll agree on that, but i think the overall has a lot of authenticity to it, ESPECIALLY how the industry works and how non-tech people are trying to talk about tech.
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The industry stuff is great. Not what I was talking about. Yeah, there are nuggets in the tech, but most of it is total fiction. Showing code on a monitor doesn't make the algorithms any more mathematically possible.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Most of the tech-speak in the show is complete BS, but good enough to make it sound plausible. Easy enough to suspend disbelief. Throw in some industry buzzwords and a few terms from CS 101 and you'll get close enough to make it sound good.
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I want you to read this in Gilfoyle's voice:
Are you complaining a show about a fictional technology is using fictional algorithms to demonstrate it?

The whole middle out is a McGuffin. The show isn't about the technology.
 
Isn't everything bighead is talking about with the reporter something that will get his confidential agreement I believe he had or something like that in violation thus all this money will be gone soon?

I guess that's one way to get this deal he is doing with Erlich to favor him. 😛
 
Newbian said:
Isn't everything bighead is talking about with the reporter something that will get his confidential agreement I believe he had or something like that in violation thus all this money will be gone soon?

I guess that's one way to get this deal he is doing with Erlich to favor him. 😛
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Since, Big Head didn't learn that in confidence, I don't believe he could break it by saying "someone told me he did this and that". Though, I'm no lawyer and I'd wager the journalist would keep her sources anonymous. She wouldn't be blogging with any inside again if she didn't.
 
smackababy said:
Since, Big Head didn't learn that in confidence, I don't believe he could break it by saying "someone told me he did this and that". Though, I'm no lawyer and I'd wager the journalist would keep her sources anonymous. She wouldn't be blogging with any inside again if she didn't.
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possibly, but I don't think they are going to get that bogged down in details like this. They made a big point to remind Big Head that his compensation is dependent on his confidentiality.

This show has taken plenty of leaps with the realities of tech and legaleeze while still remaining accurate enough to present a believable world, imo. Every episode seems to go into setup, rise, fall structure (more-so this year, it seems), so I would think that this is going to be the obvious bump that knocks down yet another Bachman scheme.
 
smackababy said:
Since, Big Head didn't learn that in confidence, I don't believe he could break it by saying "someone told me he did this and that". Though, I'm no lawyer and I'd wager the journalist would keep her sources anonymous. She wouldn't be blogging with any inside again if she didn't.
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If she quoted him directly, he'd be in trouble. But, since dozens of employees knew about the scrubbing and BigHead wasn't actually involved in the scrubbing, He's in little danger of getting in trouble for breaking confidentiality.
 
Artdeco said:
The casting is near perfect.
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i forget the name of the main woman who is weird as shit on the board and who monica works under, but i think she is bad. maybe it's just her overacting but the way she is portraying that character just seems like she's trying way too hard.

and is it just me or does monica seem hotter this season?
 
purbeast0 said:
i forget the name of the main woman who is weird as shit on the board and who monica works under, but i think she is bad. maybe it's just her overacting but the way she is portraying that character just seems like she's trying way too hard.

and is it just me or does monica seem hotter this season?
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I'm waiting for the episode where they reveal she is a robot.
 
purbeast0 said:
i forget the name of the main woman who is weird as shit on the board and who monica works under, but i think she is bad. maybe it's just her overacting but the way she is portraying that character just seems like she's trying way too hard.

and is it just me or does monica seem hotter this season?
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yah, she is my least favorite. I also think it's overacting the part.

Monica gets hotter from season to season I think...not sure about the difference between last two seasons, but my tried-and-true chub indicator registered a significant change between seasons 1 and 2.
 
purbeast0 said:
i forget the name of the main woman who is weird as shit on the board and who monica works under, but i think she is bad. maybe it's just her overacting but the way she is portraying that character just seems like she's trying way too hard.
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I think they're trying too hard to make her odd in a way that's similar to Peter Gregory/Christopher Welch (RIP) in Season 1. He pulled it off brilliantly, but it's just not working with her IMO.
 
purbeast0 said:
i forget the name of the main woman who is weird as shit on the board and who monica works under, but i think she is bad. maybe it's just her overacting but the way she is portraying that character just seems like she's trying way too hard.

and is it just me or does monica seem hotter this season?
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The stoic woman is perfect. I have worked with someone like that 😛
 
They should've gone with a completely different style when the actor that played Peter Gregory died. He played his character so well any other similar replacement character would have a really hard time filling his shoes, like the current Laurie character/actress.
 
Perknose said:
You can be stoic without being either wooden or weird. She is more on the "functioning autistic" spectrum.
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yea we have a developer who is like that. last year me and my co-worker were in the middle of working a customer visible issue and pretty focused on the task. this dude comes over to our area and starts pestering us about uploading a new build from TFS to the test environment... i told him we will do it later this afternoon. he kept distracting us so i kida sorta raised my vice and told him we will take care of it when we are free from this issue....

damn you thought i just whipped a puppy. he lowers his head, says ok and slowly walks away. my co-worker looks at me and whispers WTF, dont do that he will kill us all. D:
 
Newbian said:
Isn't everything bighead is talking about with the reporter something that will get his confidential agreement I believe he had or something like that in violation thus all this money will be gone soon?

I guess that's one way to get this deal he is doing with Erlich to favor him. 😛
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that's exactly what I was thinking.
 
smackababy said:
I want you to read this in Gilfoyle's voice:
Are you complaining a show about a fictional technology is using fictional algorithms to demonstrate it?

The whole middle out is a McGuffin. The show isn't about the technology.
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Seriously?

No, I'm trying to tell those who, for some unknown reason think the tech sounds even vaguely plausible, that it's little more than something written for a TV show, using terms loosely cobbled together to sound real.

The process and the environment are close enough to be believable. Well, up until we got to Dinesh losing his "personal hard drive" with all of the company's IP on it.
 
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