I'm not sure how they'll keep it funny over more than a few seasons, seems kind of like a one trick pony (and maybe that's just fine).
I trust Mike Judge, so I'll likely keep watching, but what made King of the Hill so magical was how he was able to show our changing world through the eyes of a simple propane and propane accessories salesman. Plenty of content there; likely not as much with SV to survive maybe a two season run.
Entourage (this show's closest comparison) had some pretty stupid episodes (the last season in particular was awful), but I stuck through it all because I liked Ari and Drama.
That said, I do wish Adam Scott were in this show - he'd be pretty great (esp. if you saw him in Party Down, where he played a character trapped in the catering industry).
It's not a documentary. The aim is to make people laugh while not straying too far from reality that it's completely unbelievable. I think they achieved that. Personally I didn't think I'd enjoy it at all but I found it kind of funny and will probably return for ep 2.
For anyone else who's enjoying it, you should also check out the TV adaptation of JPod. So far the humour feels pretty similar.
Call me picky, but...
In fact, the Nyquist-Shannon theorem itself is a kind of lossless compression. It says you can potentially throw away data without losing information.
Lossless compression requires assumptions about the data, of course, because making some patterns shorter requires making others come out longer. Random data will, in general, get larger under a lossless compression algorithm.
also i have the weird feeling that i know at least 3 of the fictional characters in person.
It's satire but doesn't seem too exaggerated (unfortunately?).
My favorite was the marketing bicycle meeting. It seems like it would be such a silicon valley type thing.
I cannot wait when they intro character of PG ... And I hope they will. I'm sure that character will wear khaki shorts and sandals.
So I haven't seen it yet, and I do plan to watch the first episode. But quotes like this — from one of the producers — make me not want to bother. Yes, this quote is justified, because SV is full of billionaires like Tom Perkins, and not struggling, creative people just trying to get by.
The reason I'm hesitant about this show is that it seems to be mocking something that isn't worthy of mockery: people genuinely trying to make the world a better place. You can laugh all you want at the What's App buyout, but assuming that the ridiculous events that make the news are the reality of life in the Bay Area tech industry is ignorant, isn't it?
Maybe the show isn't as caustic as I'm assuming it is. Maybe I'll love it. I really liked the Amazon series Betas. But the premise of this show — which seems to amount to "SV is full of assholes" — doesn't sound promising.
"We're making the world a better place. By constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility."
"Making the world a better place. Through minimal message-oriented transport layers."
2) SV is full of assholes.
3) The show is hilarious.
It is much more typical to do what she does now, crash at AirBnB as she bounces between cities for meetings, and working 10 hours at the office and working another 4 at the house.
http://plexinlp.com is a passion, and we'd be building it even if we weren't out to get rich. Sure we hope it is the next billion dollar wolfram/siri/google killer.
We aren't planning to be like the reality series and get canceled in episode 4. We are in it for the long haul. Which is something that is happening less and less in SV. People routinely tell me they are doing 2, 3, and even 4 startups at the same time.
SV needs to be able to laugh at itself. But it also needs to understand that it isn't in a bubble entirely right now. The money is bigger, but not by the orders of magnitude that the pervasiveness of the Internet has increased. The people getting rich are creating more divide than there ever was, but also the expectations on those who achieve that level have gone up. SV is in flux as no other place on the planet has as much potential to make you a millionaire or a pauper in a 2 year time.
