Dan, "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons also worked as a consultant for Silicon Valley.
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#42I 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.
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#44Mike Judge, one of the show runners, was in the valley during the 80s so it makes sense that there would be some truth.
Dick Costolo and Dan Lyons also worked as consultants for the show.
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#45I love the running joke that the main characters work on fake technobabble, but the background companies (particularly the TechCrunch episode) are babbling about stuff that sounds fake but is real tech. “Making the world a better place through Paxos distributed consensus!”
A compression algorithm that works well enough to make a P2P Internet practical seems like a ground-breaking technology that is close-to-believable.
I challenge any of us to come up with something better or an alternative!
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#46Dan Lyons, author of "Disrupted," is also on the writing staff for the show. Not quite Silicon Valley but if you read the book, some of the stuff from his time at Hubspot makes it into the show.
Judge surrounded himself with a lot of different perspectives on all of this.
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#47It'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.
Pardon my ignorance but what did big bang theory got wrong?
All of these commenters seem genuinely offended by the demographic representations on the show but I'm here to tell you, it's awful because of the terrible writing, predictable humor, reliance on a laugh track to sell its "jokes" and it's overall just aimless and boring.
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#48I 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.
I read through this book in a few hours and really couldn't put it down
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mike Judge predicted how democracy turns to idiocracy 10 years ago. i wonder what he thinks about the future of tech
America is already there, it's half hull of tarded mud mutts begging the white man to fix everything for them.
This has no place on HN
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#50I found that the first few seasons (maybe first 2 or 3) did a great job at parodying the Valley. They were truly uncanny to watch for me sometimes, and I don't even live in SF.
The past few years, the quality degraded significantly IMO. It mostly turned into "The Office but with developers and geeks!!" - which doesn't make it a bad show, but not as witty and thought provoking. I wonder if it's past the point where it needs to reach a wider audience, just like any other show.