The script excerpts make for a good tease, but I generally have a bias for HBO shows anyway. I think this is going to be interesting, unlike Big Bang Theory which bored me within the first season.
HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked
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#12Hugh Mason from JFDI.Asia and Daniel of This Week in Asia said "startups is becoming more and more a spectator sport"
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#13Holy crap, the overdone continuous scrolling and animation makes that page almost useless. Scroll a little bit, and suddenly I'm jumped to a different part of the page. Don't scroll too far up, or it loads the previous article right in place, and doesn't keep you where you were. Then the top-bar seems to come down at random. What a frustrating example of overdoing an attempt at a "rich experience" thus hindering the…
Uh yeah i'm not on a tablet or phone; horrible experience!
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#15From the article: TANDY: This is it? This is where all the tech billionaires decided to live? LANGDON: It can't be. (stops a passerby) Excuse me, is this Palo Alto? Hilarious :)
Unless they were standing outside a whole foods or so, I don't buy the existence of "passerby"
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#16Holy crap, the overdone continuous scrolling and animation makes that page almost useless. Scroll a little bit, and suddenly I'm jumped to a different part of the page. Don't scroll too far up, or it loads the previous article right in place, and doesn't keep you where you were. Then the top-bar seems to come down at random. What a frustrating example of overdoing an attempt at a "rich experience" thus hindering the…
qz.com should have a warning sign "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!".
it's worse than blogspot.
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#17I might watch if it actually depicts life in SV. I just hope they don't go too crazy just to get higher ratings.
It's a fictional comedy, not a reality show.
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#18The script excerpts make for a good tease, but I generally have a bias for HBO shows anyway. I think this is going to be interesting, unlike Big Bang Theory which bored me within the first season.
Big Bang Theory is definitely not a show for geeks.
Now Fringe, there's a show for geeks (warning the science may be slightly liberal at times)
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#19I might watch if it actually depicts life in SV. I just hope they don't go too crazy just to get higher ratings.
It's a fictional comedy, not a reality show.
There's nothing hilarious about 1 million tweets @3:00 am complaining about your server being down . . . of course if it's somebody elses server, well, that's comedy gold.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
seems the opposite of ironic to me
It's slightly ironic that SV/tech people will enjoy watching something where they're somewhat mocked vs. fawned over, I think.
fair point. but, op was contrasting HBOs version with Bravos version, both of which presumably do a great job of mocking and fawning. which suggests the proposed source of irony is elsewhere.