Silicon Valley (television series)
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Does anyone else watch this show? The actual technical stuff in it isn't bad for a mainstream HBO series, and they seem to know what they're making fun of.
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@bb36e said in Silicon Valley (television series):
Does anyone else watch this show? The actual technical stuff in it isn't bad for a mainstream HBO series, and they seem to know what they're making fun of.
Yes. It's great. They have some really good technical consultants on it. Episode after episode is "oh fucking god this is funny because it's true so it's sad =( lol fml".
It's pretty much as close to TDWTF: The Series as we'll ever get. (Though it's rated R, whereas I suspect TDWTF: The Series would be PG)
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@Lorne-Kates yeah, we don't have as many horses fucking here
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@Lorne-Kates said in Silicon Valley (television series):
Though it's rated R, whereas I suspect TDWTF: The Series would be PG
Unlike WTDWTF: The Series, rated FUCK YOU.
Filed under: and banned in Australia
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@Maciejasjmj said in Silicon Valley (television series):
Filed under: and banned in Australia
And it causes cancer in California.
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@bb36e said in Silicon Valley (television series):
The actual technical stuff in it isn't bad for a mainstream HBO series
Not seen this show, but I’ve been watching Halt and Catch Fire, and it has a scene in which one of the main characters is writing this on a Commodore 64:
Obviously a crap show.
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@Gurth With hardcoded paths, too!
Burn the infidel!
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@Onyx said in Silicon Valley (television series):
paths
...in general, if it's actually C64 (I'm pretty sure the font was different, but I dunno)
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@Maciejasjmj Well, yeah, that was kinda the joke, C64 running DOS/Windows, wut?
Also, may I add that the indentation is horrid? Which might be because it seems that bits of code were copied from unrelated locations it seems...
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@Maciejasjmj said in Silicon Valley (television series):
Unlike WTDWTF: The Series, rated FUCK YOU.
I'd have thought that that would be rated “Give @Lorne-Kates money”. Which is the same thing, but more printable in family-friendly situations.
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Silicon Valley put a ton of effort into their technical stuff. For example:
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@Onyx said in Silicon Valley (television series):
With hardcoded paths, too!
Hey, this is set in 1985, they hadn’t even heard of paths on a C64 back then.
@Maciejasjmj said in Silicon Valley (television series):
...in general, if it's actually C64 (I'm pretty sure the font was different, but I dunno)
It looks like the C64 font to me, but why you’d change your screen from blue-on-blue to green-on-black, I’m not sure, especially because the show clearly shows that the screen she uses is capable of displaying other colours as well.
@Onyx said in Silicon Valley (television series):
Well, yeah, that was kinda the joke, C64 running DOS/Windows, wut?
Clearly Windows, given that “StorePos” fits as an 8.3 filename, but “ExtractAndDefend” obviously doesn’t. My first Trekkie-ist thought was, “Well, maybe they’re running CP/M” but (aside from the filename length) Commodore specifically put a Z80 CPU into the C128 to do that because the C64 couldn’t.
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@Gurth said in Silicon Valley (television series):
why you’d change your screen from blue-on-blue to green-on-black, I’m not sure
TV hacking has to be green on black. It's the law
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@Gurth said in Silicon Valley (television series):
@bb36e said in Silicon Valley (television series):
The actual technical stuff in it isn't bad for a mainstream HBO series
Not seen this show, but I’ve been watching Halt and Catch Fire, and it has a scene in which one of the main characters is writing this on a Commodore 64:
Obviously a crap show.
What is with the indentation? IF STATEMENTS SHOULD HAVE CURLY BRACES!!!!
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@Jaloopa said in Silicon Valley (television series):
TV hacking has to be green on black. It's the law
My terminals are green-on-black as well. It's calming when things aren't working.
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@dkf so are mine. I like to feel like an old school hacker
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@Jaloopa said in Silicon Valley (television series):
I like to feel like an old school hacker
I just like to be reminded of some of the machines we had when I was an undergraduate.
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@Jaloopa said in Silicon Valley (television series):
@Gurth said in Silicon Valley (television series):
why you’d change your screen from blue-on-blue to green-on-black, I’m not sure
TV hacking has to be green on black. It's the law
Well, they avoided showing huge “DELETE ALL DATA? Y/N”-style windows on screen, so that’s a point in the show’s favour.