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

[OutHouse]

http://www.piedpiper.com/thinking-inside-the-box/

:awe:

lol since my boss does not watch HBO i should send this to him and tell him their tech is top notch and we should partner with them. ahhahahahahah

 

[OutHouse]

ok i think htat is the first time ive seen horses fuck on a tv show.

 

[KLin]

So did anyone catch the jerking motion of the nucleus guy? I lolled at the reference.

 

[OutHouse]

So did anyone catch the jerking motion of the nucleus guy? I lolled at the reference.

yes, i had a image of the white board they plotted on from last season

 

[Carson Dyle]

This show is just laugh-out-loud funny. The doctor's visit to begin the episode was brilliant. Great characters, great writing.

 

[Newbian]

ok i think htat is the first time ive seen horses fuck on a tv show.

I guess you have not been watching the right shows... D:

 

[RichieZ]

so far this season has been somewhat disappointing imo

 

[Carson Dyle]

How about Jian-Yang, as he's moving out of the house? Takes his cereal, his snacks, and ... his baking soda!

Dinesh playing VR solitaire on his six monitor setup? Classic.

 

[Newbian]

Dinesh playing VR solitaire on his six monitor setup? Classic.

I was saddened by it with how big the bezels were.

 

[Drako]

How about Jian-Yang, as he's moving out of the house? Takes his cereal, his snacks, and ... his baking soda!

Dinesh playing VR solitaire on his six monitor setup? Classic.

Love the Jian-Yang character.

That scene with him emptying the recyclables onto the living room floor reminded me of a dumbass roommate I had in college. D:

 

[zinfamous]

I love the Jian-Yang vs Bachman moments.

"Yes, Japanese racist!"

 

[Homerboy]

Absolutely killing it thus far this season.
What's funny though is I find myself not caring at all what the storyline is or where it is going. It's so character driven for me it's ridiculous. It's just all little scenes smashed together.

If you've had ANY dealings with Silicon Valley companies (or any tech company in LA) they just NAIL the culture and the people perfectly.

 

[Bird222]

So did anyone catch the jerking motion of the nucleus guy? I lolled at the reference.

I went back to look for this and I didn't see it. Unless you're talking about the guy imitating the guy on the gym equipment.

 

[KLin]

I went back to look for this and I didn't see it. Unless you're talking about the guy imitating the guy on the gym equipment.

Season finale of season 1 when erlich offers to jerk everyone off in the audience, which starts a conversation on how he'd accomplish it within their presentation time frame.

https://youtu.be/P-hUV9yhqgY

 

[Bird222]

Season finale of season 1 when erlich offers to jerk everyone off in the audience, which starts a conversation on how he'd accomplish it within their presentation time frame.

https://youtu.be/P-hUV9yhqgY

I thought he was talking about something that happened in the last episode.

 

[Balt]

http://www.piedpiper.com/thinking-inside-the-box/

:awe:

I love how Erlich's portrait is so much smaller than everyone else's in the "Who We Are" section.

 

[n7]

I love how Erlich's portrait is so much smaller than everyone else's in the "Who We Are" section.

Haha, that is great. :awe:

 

[zinfamous]

Did anyone pay attention to the time lapse montage during the O/N brainstorming for their Skunk Work's plan?

After Bachman snapped at Jian Yang trying to steal the pizza, he spends the entire montage defending the pizza from him. He passes out in the chair and sneaky Jian Yang grabs some pizza and runs. Bachman snaps awake, sees nothing, but takes another bong hit and falls asleep again.

Tripping over the cord, let alone Richard actually bringing their entire plan with him that morning...just a stupid, lazy device.

 

[Homerboy]

Did anyone pay attention to the time lapse montage during the O/N brainstorming for their Skunk Work's plan?

After Bachman snapped at Jian Yang trying to steal the pizza, he spends the entire montage defending the pizza from him. He passes out in the chair and sneaky Jian Yang grabs some pizza and runs. Bachman snaps awake, sees nothing, but takes another bong hit and falls asleep again.

Tripping over the cord, let alone Richard actually bringing their entire plan with him that morning...just a stupid, lazy device.

I actually watched the time-lapse twice and caught all of that. There's lots of little things throughout the sequence that are great.

As for the tripping on the hose and bringing the entire plan with him I agree it was pretty ham-fisted. Seemed like something on Three's Company or something. I didn't mind it too much as it almost seemed intentionally "clumsy"

 

[Phanuel]

That trip at the end honestly annoyed the ever living shit out of me. He had JUST SAID to destroy everything 15 seconds earlier. Really really really bad.

 

[zinfamous]

Depending on how detailed their flowchart was for this scheme, I think that CEO dude in the end is going to be angrier over the revelation that they are about to be scooped by a dozen or so ex-Hooli scrubs working for that other company.

The whole idea is pretty stupid, because it seemed obvious to me that after discovering this, shouldn't Richard have just gone to CEO or even Riviga again and said, "Look, our algorithm is out there and if we don't go to platform now, we are going to be irrelevant in 3 weeks."

Or am I missing something?

 

[Homerboy]

Depending on how detailed their flowchart was for this scheme, I think that CEO dude in the end is going to be angrier over the revelation that they are about to be scooped by a dozen or so ex-Hooli scrubs working for that other company.

The whole idea is pretty stupid, because it seemed obvious to me that after discovering this, shouldn't Richard have just gone to CEO or even Riviga again and said, "Look, our algorithm is out there and if we don't go to platform now, we are going to be irrelevant in 3 weeks."

Or am I missing something?

I thought the same thing. If there was eminent threat of the platform itself getting out before theirs, then that should have been Richard's play.

What makes even less sense to me is the idea of using their compression algorithm for secure storage. There's no real point in that. Their whole product was designed for transferring of super-compressed data online (4K video, 3D video -- all streaming with zero to little loss) Compressing data to store essentially offline in the back corners of a colo doesn't work with the product at all.

I get these are just plot driving events/changes, but for a show that has more or less stuck to nerd-script (at least better than any show prior) it seems like something that could have been handled better.

 

[Gooberlx2]

What makes even less sense to me is the idea of using their compression algorithm for secure storage. There's no real point in that. Their whole product was designed for transferring of super-compressed data online (4K video, 3D video -- all streaming with zero to little loss) Compressing data to store essentially offline in the back corners of a colo doesn't work with the product at all.

Tell that to my PACS admin who has to securely archive terabytes upon terabytes of patient radiology images and is always begging for money to buy more space. There are plenty of industries that would salivate over such an ability. I mean yeah, it doesn't work with their vision of the product, hence the plot, but the need absolutely exists.

 

[zinfamous]

Tell that to my PACS admin who has to securely archive terabytes upon terabytes of patient radiology images. There are plenty of industries that would salivate over such an ability.

I recall in Season 1 when Richard went out to meet that Plumber and buy the Hooli name (iirc, that was Mike Judge, right? oh, maybe not...), he mentioned that their technology would make those giant eyesore data storage facilities obsolete, and just much, much smaller.

So I think there is some component to that. It has to be stored somewhere if it is going to stream, right?

 

[Homerboy]

Tell that to my PACS admin who has to securely archive terabytes upon terabytes of patient radiology images and is always begging for money to buy more space. There are plenty of industries that would salivate over such an ability. I mean yeah, it doesn't work with their vision of the product, hence the plot, but the need absolutely exists.

A TB of space isn't that much anymore though.

And IIRC, the whole point of the PiedPiper box was that it was offline, correct? That it was tucked into the back of a colo and more or less sat there idle, forgotten about. So there's no transferring of data (TBs worth) to the box on a daily schedule.

Maybe I misunderstood the product though? Maybe I need "Jan the Man" Spooner (Director Inside Sales) to run it by me again?