I love the show, but there's a lot of things that Silicon Valley is that it does not cover. It's not the fault of the show - it probably would be much worse if it did. But some aspects of SV - like how much it is integrated into the big politics and yet how much they try to downplay it and make it look like their behemoth companies are just young and agile rebels playing this new Internet thing, as if it were the early 90s... Or how monocultural and group-thinky many places are, and how office politics often becomes more important than tech (but don't tell this to anyone, we're not like those old industries!) SV series kinda touches on this, but only lightly, mostly concentrating on things around tech. It probably makes for a much better show.
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>He strikes me as a genius when it comes to understanding human behavior - Office Space, check! - Idiocracy, check! - Silicon Valley, check! For Silicon Valley it helps he's actually worked for a startup, a hardware one at that.
Idiocracy is, sadly, a bit too prophetic.
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#104I believe that some of the genius of the show has to go to Dan Lyons as well. He worked at HubSpot for a stint and wrote a book about it called "Disrupted" ( https://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-My-Misadventure-Start-Up-Bu... ). Really funny, in a sad way.
Yes, Dan Lyons is hilarious. He had written a book about Jobs called "Options" that was really excellent, and of course he was the author of the Fake Steve Jobs blog.
I'm not sure he has a great personality, and went offtrack during the Linux/IBM/SCO fiasco, but man is he funny.
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This Venn diagram always gets me. https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8291744000/h3159FC59/
I use this simple litmus test: if it has a laugh-track, then it's for dumb people.
One of the benefits of watching dubbed versions of some shows is that it does away with that crap.
Really. It's probably on the Top 3 stupid gimmicks by showbiz bigwigs together with the Loudness Wars and anti-piracy messages on original DVDs
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#106It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.
Mike Judge predicted how democracy turns to idiocracy 10 years ago. i wonder what he thinks about the future of tech
> i wonder what he thinks about the future of tech
Have you watched SV?
Season 1 ends with TechCrunch Disrupt, where founders nervously stammer on stage about how their "mobile-first, local-first social media network" will "make the world a better place".
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#107I asked my friend if he watched it (I don't) and he said it hit too close to home. I nodded, then he added "... because I'm a consultant for the show, and every year they meet with us and we give them ideas from our jobs and things to put in scenes"
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#108The fact that this is true just makes it hurt more that I am obviously Jared.
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> Idiocracy has aged _horribly_. Are you sure? Who is the POTUS now?
And in the movie the POTUS was Dwayne Camacho an ex pro wrestler... and in real life many people want an ex pro wrestler named Dwayne Johnson to run for POTUS as an improvement to the current POTUS?! I'd say you can't make this stuff up, but Mike Judge made this stuff up before it was real life!
The current POTUS is also an ex pro wrestler.
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Glad you made this comment as well. Mike Judge is one of the best at capturing culture and Americana specifically. The voice for Hank was based on some redneck guy who kept calling MTV and complaining about Bevis and Butthead.
Do you have a citation for that? Hank Hill is ripped straight from Tom Anderson, a character from Beavis and Butthead. AFAIK Tom Anderson appeared on the show very early and the timeline you're suggesting doesn't make sense.
It's actually Boomhauer:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/mike-judge-tells-jimmy-kim...