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HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked

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Re: HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked

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Post by janerik »

chops wrote: post #9

Holy 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…

A lot better to read via Instapaper: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F44671...

Re: HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked

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Post by rplnt »

FaddiCat wrote: post #40
chops wrote: post #9

Holy 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…

I've been to this website a few times and I've never gotten past the loading throbber.

I don't remember 99% of sites I visit from HN but I somehow remembered this one and I've only seen it once. Maybe that's what they are aiming for.

Re: HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked

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Post by logn »

yen223 wrote: post #30
philwelch wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, the details are fictional, but there's a true-to-life quality that some comedies have.

Hah, the most depressing moment of my life was when I realized that Office Space is disturbingly close to reality.

Then there's hope. I haven't lived in Office Space for three years now as a developer.

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Post by smutticus »

philwelch wrote: post #55
chops wrote: post #9

Holy 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…

You know, one of the eternal downsides of a discussion site filled with web developers is that whenever you post a link, instead of discussing the actual content, the top-rated comment is far too often an angry criticism of the website design itself, followed by tangent about Javascript or something.

I consider this an eternal upside.

Re: HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked

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Post by beagle3 »

Not opining on how good it is: the script matters less than the execution.

Have you ever watched Coupling? It is an extremely funny British sitcom (ignoring the 4th season, which is just "funny", but not as good as the first 3 seasons, with the exception of a couple of episodes).

It was also successful in the US. So, an american version with american actors was made, as is customary (see e.g. The Office, Queer as Folk, Being Human, etc, etc, etc.)

It had exactly the same texts for the expisodes I watched. It had reasonably good actors. But it just wasn't funny. I gave it the benefit of doubt. Then rewatched the british. Still funny. Then the american. Not funny.

(Successful conversions like "the office" go their own way, rather than stay true to the original)

The best script is useless without a matching excellent delivery. And a lesser script is still excellent with the right delivery. (Think about how Seinfeld would look if done by your other favorite comedians who are not Seinfeld/Louis-Dreyfus/Spadowski et al)

I like Mike Judge's past work. I'm going to wait until I see it executed before I have an opinion.

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

philwelch wrote: post #55
chops wrote: post #9

Holy 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…

You know, one of the eternal downsides of a discussion site filled with web developers is that whenever you post a link, instead of discussing the actual content, the top-rated comment is far too often an angry criticism of the website design itself, followed by tangent about Javascript or something.

In this case, the website design is so horrible as to render a discussion about the topic impossible, since the design has made it impossible to read the damn thing.

Re: HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked

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Post by Justen »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #68
philwelch wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, one of the eternal downsides of a discussion site filled with web developers is that whenever you post a link, instead of discussing the actual content, the top-rated comment is far too often an angry criticism of the website design itself, followed by tangent about Javascript or something.

In this case, the website design is so horrible as to render a discussion about the topic impossible, since the design has made it impossible to read the damn thing .

That seems a tad melodramatic..
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