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

Love this show more and more with every ep

Feel like the look of the founders and the story of this startup must have been a specific inspiration for this show:

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/team.jpg?w=738

"PeerCDN™ is a next-generation CDN powered by WebRTC for efficient peer-to-peer content delivery, reducing bandwidth costs by up to 90%."

(they were subsequently purchased by Yahoo)

and undoubtedly buried under the parking lot

my one beef with the verisimilitude of Silicon Valley is that there are no overweight coders to be found which seems odd

i'm facebook friends with a childhood friend who worked at facebook for a few years and there were no fat people in any of the outdoor gatherings he took pictures of

they were probably inside

it makes one wonder

if you search for facebook or google employee gathering pictures or meetings it's... not a very body type diverse group

I saw that photo earlier today and thought the same thing

the tall one's bio is just as nerdy as you could hope. fave bit: I frequently win hackathons by crafting code that gives kids with spectacles spectacular fits.
http://feross.org/about/

weird.. i happened upon feross's github yesterday completely unrelated

Hooli CEO is departmental Dan from "last days of disco" lmaooo

Can't believe I just realized that

id say my favourite thing about this show is Erlich pronouncing things like embarcadero

and aviato

YES YES

sounds mighty christian of you, gilfoyle

there's no need for hate speech, richard

even his posture is hilarious to me, like a stoned pigeon

Is this the only show that can get away with a line of dialogue like gilfoil saying "let's go brownie"

the clickfarm footage at the end is soul-crushing brilliance

I am not sure made me laugh more, Gavin motioning to signal the opossum should not be brought in, or the promo booth giving away subway coupons

yeah, the clickfarm was an amazing shot

is the only solution to this current problem that they need to hire bernice?

that was my immediate reaction

really they need to hire an application designer and someone who can spin the technical accomplishments of their platform into products people want to use

pipey explaining "you're only six clicks away!" absolutely killed me

even pakistani denzel was on to something with the video chat idea

godspeed you! black emperor being the music in the 'table' ad was next level.

that ad was brilliant

It's funny how little they changed from this Facebook ad: https://youtu.be/SSzoDPptYNA

Also, this craptastic display of extremely overinflated sense of importance: https://youtu.be/bx1-im6i8uk

I don't get it. Not one person in the show's universe says "change the interface"? Wife and I were frustrated by this.

^ this. I kept waiting for the designer to show back up again. If that's the deus ex machina ending it's gonna suck.

like the "six steps to upload a file" are solely an interface issue; slap a new gui on there for fucks sake
but they really really wanted to do a clippy joke

i thought that dinesh and gilfoyle basically suggested they withdraw the release and re-do the interface? and that richard was much too tied to the interface (which HE thought was amazing) to follow that suggestion?

I thought they couldn't afford it.

a half a million seems like enough for a new gui

the production team did a good job making it seem like the kind of developer tool with lots of controls I have used so many times in my work and most non-technical people would be freaked out by. I wouldn't be surprised if the solution next episode is just to make it as stupid simple as possible (like, one upload button) and the six steps of customization and unnecessary technical info that Richard loves gets thrown out the window

it reminds me a lot of Super C which is also great video compression w a nightmare interface

could have polished up dinesh's video chat as a first release

Re-watched the first three episodes with a friend who hadn't seen it at all yet. I miss non-completely pathetic Dinesh and non-completely oblivious/dumb Bighead. Every comedy show seems to gradually turn characters into cartoon versions of their most defining quirks (Bighead) or narrows in on an emphasized theme of the character (Dinesh, Jared) to some degree. Not as true for some other characters as much and they're not doing it to the same degree as The Office or Parks & Rec (yet) and I love the show but it the change was striking after revisiting those early episodes.

lol @ the season finale being a soft reboot of the whole series

"couldn't you just show them a.... picture of these animals?"

Saved Jian Yang's best prank call for last.

lol yessss

and him injecting that Richard can live there for free following by Erlich's DAMN IT JIAN YANG

Erlich may be my favorite character, or maybe Jared

Richard has too many moments where he's like a baby version of the Belson
Dinesh and Gilfoyle are a great duo, their best moments are up there with some of the better comic on-screen duos

Jian Yang is the ace in the hole of the series obv

erlich's description of his triumph, including jacking off in a restoration hardware, was incredible. this show does monologues incredibly well.

jian yang is amazing and I think about him every time I drive by a Taco Bell.

lol @ the season finale being a soft reboot of the whole series

^^^ this. they're basically back to the beginning of season 1

jin-yiang crank calls biggest laugh-getter of this ep for me

It takes a lot these days for me to be entertained by the sophomoric jerk-off jokes but the Erlich monologues are masterful

"It's like I was Bobby Fisher if he could really fuck"

^that line in particular really got me. superficially amusing, and then i just keep rolling it over in my mind and it becomes really ridiculous and hilarious. i was laughing at it like 15 seconds after he said it.

the extended not-quite-metaphor about jerking off at a urinal was the closest thing to poetry Erlich has spouted so far

If I had seen the scene of Jared staring out the window completely out-of-context, I would have assumed that he was the ghost of someone who had been murdered in that house long ago.

Very haunted/haunting

Jared crying 'for normal reasons'.