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PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by brewdad »

wavesounds wrote: post #27
jaytaylor wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks to me like it costs $19.99 http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=18789896

Yeah only the first 15 minutes are on their website. No idea why people who own a tv who can watch the whole thing and people who only own a computer only get 15 minutes.

If it's like most other PBS shows, tomorrow it will be available in its entirety. They want you to watch it on your television if possible, then give you the opportunity to see it online after it's aired. It may only be available online for a limited time though, so don't procrastinate too long.

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Post by ThePinion »

alaskamiller wrote: post #11

In another 5 years they'll finally get around to producing a show about Silicon Valley now. About how the silicon became fabless and offshored. About how Indians took over Koreatown, how all the buildings along the 101 stretch went up then empty. About how the pioneers settled down while the goldrushers came in wanting a piece in San Francisco even though the 49ers came down to Santa Clara. About how the old campuses…

Hello! Fellow Alaskan?

Have you heard about Mike Judge's upcoming show on Silicon Valley? I actually kind of assumed that's why this documentary was released at this time

http://betabeat.com/2012/12/silicon-valley-finally-gets-the-...

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Post by mercuryrising »

That was a really good show! I took a microelectronic fabrication course in school, and the Deal-Grove model [1] was one of the things we studied. Cool to see the people who discovered the reasons for the weird things that happen in microelectronics.

It's amazing how interesting of a story can be told with mainly pictures and old video. No special effects, just the raw meat of the story of the people who made our data world happen.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal%E2%80%93Grove_model

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Post by confluence »

> [William Shockley's] mother had lived there [Santa Clara Valley] for years - and land prices where cheap.

Just goes to show how random things like these are. A random physicist, comes home, starts a small silicon chip shop, and accidentally helps cause what you see in Silicon Valley today.

Reminds me of this: http://vimeo.com/52268132#t=824

Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by kickingvegas »

alaskamiller wrote: post #11

In another 5 years they'll finally get around to producing a show about Silicon Valley now. About how the silicon became fabless and offshored. About how Indians took over Koreatown, how all the buildings along the 101 stretch went up then empty. About how the pioneers settled down while the goldrushers came in wanting a piece in San Francisco even though the 49ers came down to Santa Clara. About how the old campuses…

You've hit a nerve touching on the hidden stories of Silicon Valley which may never get told. (But should.)

It's 10:33pm, and I'm just getting back home in San Francisco after spending the day working in San Jose, driving down 101 in the morning, coding, and then driving back after working out at the immense 24 Hour Super Sport off Zanker Road. It's been 7 years since I've really worked back in the South Bay, now making my living building iOS apps. I first got here in 1997 working on building EDA tools as part of the silicon ecosystem that is mostly gone now, punctuated by the different signs on the same buildings you see driving along 101.

Different signs. It can be overwhelming to think about all the changes in Silicon Valley since the mid-1970's, about all the stories of the different people here who contributed to that change, with Moore's law the only thing keeping and driving us together.

As an example I like to relate, most lay people at best see those past efforts distilled and watered-down in the form of their smartphones today. For those of us who've been at this for a while, we can see the full panoply of life in Silicon Valley embedded in these things.

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Post by PakG1 »

doktrin wrote: post #16
alaskamiller wrote: post #11

In another 5 years they'll finally get around to producing a show about Silicon Valley now. About how the silicon became fabless and offshored. About how Indians took over Koreatown, how all the buildings along the 101 stretch went up then empty. About how the pioneers settled down while the goldrushers came in wanting a piece in San Francisco even though the 49ers came down to Santa Clara. About how the old campuses…

> About what happens in the middle of the night in those corporate parks Your office park sounds much more interesting than mine (Menlo). After 9 PM it's crickets all the way down.

What makes you think that it's anything interesting? Maybe it's more like a Waiting for Godot deal. The fact that you know there are crickets there would indicate that you are there doing something. :)

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Post by huhtenberg »

kickingvegas wrote: post #38
alaskamiller wrote: post #11

In another 5 years they'll finally get around to producing a show about Silicon Valley now. About how the silicon became fabless and offshored. About how Indians took over Koreatown, how all the buildings along the 101 stretch went up then empty. About how the pioneers settled down while the goldrushers came in wanting a piece in San Francisco even though the 49ers came down to Santa Clara. About how the old campuses…

You've hit a nerve touching on the hidden stories of Silicon Valley which may never get told. (But should.) It's 10:33pm, and I'm just getting back home in San Francisco after spending the day working in San Jose, driving down 101 in the morning, coding, and then driving back after working out at the immense 24 Hour Super Sport off Zanker Road. It's been 7 years since I've really worked back in the South Bay, now mak…

Dude. You should try your hand in writing. The second paragraph would've made an excellent opening to a SnowCrash-like book.
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