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I like the constant making GBS threads on business school.
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The cut to Bell Biv DeVoe over the credits killed me.
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May 9, 2016 15:49
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I really wanna see a storyline where Jared is Hanneman's protege.
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May 9, 2016 16:28
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Everything from the slo mo rap to Jareds joke to Richard tripping and the cut to poison was perfect. I actually cried I was laughing so hard.
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May 9, 2016 16:46
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Echo Chamber posted:I like the constant making GBS threads on business school. I'm exploring consulting as a career option now, and the 'conjoined triangles of success' is exactly my problem with so much of business education: take 5-6 painfully general buzzwords, put them on an arbitrary graphical design, give them an air of reverence and some credentials behind the author, and you can sell it in a $40 paperback book to aspiring tycoons everywhere. Even consulting feels like it's contemptuously dismissive of half of this stuff for exactly that reason and unironically fanatical about invoking the just-as-arbitrary other half. Jack is well done and is starting to give off a distinct Jobs vs. Wozniak vibe. In the first 1.5 episodes, he comes across as the rare genius who ardently supports engineering vision and has the business savvy to make both work, even if it is rooted in some heartbreaking pragmatism. He smoothly wins over Bachman and Richard with flattery and Dinesh and Gilfoyle with bribery. Then in episode 3 the mask starts slipping and we see private flashes of anger. Somewhere around the fourth or fifth time he orders Richard to his office and points to the triangles to settle a protest, it becomes clear just how empty they are and that his true genius is just manipulation bordering on psychopathy. Avasculous fucked around with this message at 16:57 on May 9, 2016 |
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May 9, 2016 16:54
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Holy poo poo was that perfect. Oceans 11 except he trips lol
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May 9, 2016 17:32
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Avasculous posted:Somewhere around the fourth or fifth time he orders Richard to his office and points to the triangles to settle a protest, it becomes clear just how empty they are and that his true genius is just manipulation bordering on psychopathy. We're finally getting to see what happened to Werner Brandes from 'Sneakers.' Mary McDonnell's character broke his heart and shattered his faith in the purity of coding, so he stopped designing voice recognition chips for stuffed animals, changed his name, and became a ruthless corporate shill, determined to make coders and fellow engineers suffer with his every breath for not designing a better computer dating system.
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May 9, 2016 19:17
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I think Omar cribbed his badass line from a quote by some Roman consul or something
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May 9, 2016 19:27
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This show does a great job at making me feel this contact-helplessness. Richards fruitless attempts at changing Action Jack's mind are so god drat frustrating. WHY WONT YOU LISTEN. CAN YOU NOT SEE THE POTENTIAL?! It seriously bugs me. I can feel Richard's helplessness physically.
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May 9, 2016 20:19
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AAA DOLFAN posted:Holy poo poo was that perfect. Oceans 11 except he trips lol
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May 9, 2016 20:20
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I have been part of a "Let's work on this thing on company time and not tell management until it's demoable" project before, but nowhere near that scale. If they don't deliver that box, all the breach clauses from the contracts the sales team has definitely already sold are gonna drive the company bankrupt before they have a chance to do anything with their consumer platform. Good thing that Richard was stupid enough to bring their brightly colored SKUNKWORKS documents to the office and have them exposed by mistake.Deadulus posted:Huh, looking up the Meinertzhagen's Haversack. The historical ploy was letting a haversack with false plans fall into enemy hands. I wonder if the dropped papers was a trick or if they genuinely hosed up. Oh. Ohhhhhh....
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May 9, 2016 20:48
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Lycus posted:Curious as to why Gilfoyle doesn't just go back to quitting. Maybe Jack blackballs them in the industry. Let's slip that his engineer team tried to mutiny(hey another show reference!) and nobody will hire them. All the recruitment stops, which actually works out in Richard's favour since now his team can't leave and they're free to do their double secret omega bluff.
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May 9, 2016 21:11
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Is there any truth to what happened to Gilfoyle when he was being recruited because it sounds awesome as gently caress(all the gift baskets and free poo poo)?
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May 9, 2016 21:25
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Holyshoot posted:Is there any truth to what happened to Gilfoyle when he was being recruited because it sounds awesome as gently caress(all the gift baskets and free poo poo)? I'm sure if you're a superstar, it's true.
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May 9, 2016 21:28
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Avasculous posted:I'm exploring consulting as a career option now, and the 'conjoined triangles of success' is exactly my problem with so much of business education: take 5-6 painfully general buzzwords, put them on an arbitrary graphical design, give them an air of reverence and some credentials behind the author, and you can sell it in a $40 paperback book to aspiring tycoons everywhere. I have good news! http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034 All business literature is "making yourself feel good about separating people from their money". It involves lying to yourself. A lot.
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May 9, 2016 21:50
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Holyshoot posted:Is there any truth to what happened to Gilfoyle when he was being recruited because it sounds awesome as gently caress(all the gift baskets and free poo poo)? He's on a team that went from nothing to winning Tech Crunch to getting "Action Jack" on board. SV has a ton of money to throw around.
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May 10, 2016 00:39
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Holyshoot posted:Is there any truth to what happened to Gilfoyle when he was being recruited because it sounds awesome as gently caress(all the gift baskets and free poo poo)? Like most things in SV, this is 90% true with only slight embellishment. Senior Engineers are hot commodities and tossing a bunch of swag at someone is pretty common place.
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May 10, 2016 01:11
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Also at this point the pied piper crew are like engineering celebrities, and a company trying to hire gilfoyle might also be hoping to use his knowledge of the compression algorithm. I wonder if the endframexnucleus crew actually wanted gilfoyle or if they just wanted to rub his nose in the fact that they had figured it out.
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May 10, 2016 01:15
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Echo Chamber posted:Starring Julia Roberts and eleven men. Jared was loving perfect in the episode. Totally killed me. Avasculous posted:I'm exploring consulting as a career option now, and the 'conjoined triangles of success' is exactly my problem with so much of business education: take 5-6 painfully general buzzwords, put them on an arbitrary graphical design, give them an air of reverence and some credentials behind the author, and you can sell it in a $40 paperback book to aspiring tycoons everywhere.
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May 10, 2016 01:28
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Oh hey guys, there's a lot of evidence that getting caught was part of the plan: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/4ikzcl/all_the_reasons_why_the_plan_is_still_in_progress/
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May 10, 2016 01:39
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Deadulus posted:Huh, looking up the Meinertzhagen's Haversack. The historical ploy was letting a haversack with false plans fall into enemy hands. I wonder if the dropped papers was a trick or if they genuinely hosed up. Then again, this is the same show that didn't describe the Schroedingers Cat thought experiment correctly so maybe not.
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May 10, 2016 01:40
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The Pied Piper site is yet again updated (site-wide announcement by Jack, several blog posts by Jared). I love HBO's commitment to the supplemental stuff.
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May 10, 2016 02:00
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Mister Fister posted:Oh hey guys, there's a lot of evidence that getting caught was part of the plan: http://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/silicon-valley-meinertzhagens-haversack-and-the-potentially-brilliant-twist-ending-explained.php
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May 10, 2016 02:10
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GobiasIndustries posted:The Pied Piper site is yet again updated (site-wide announcement by Jack, several blog posts by Jared). I love HBO's commitment to the supplemental stuff. https://www.instagram.com/SiliconHBO/ https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/729742619362906112
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May 10, 2016 02:17
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EugeneJ posted:I have good news! Thanks, I've actually been meaning to read that for a while and kept forgetting. Just ordered it. Chris Knight posted:You should watch my other favourite Sunday show, "House Of Lies" I don't know that one but I like the name, I'll check it out. Solice Kirsk posted:Then again, this is the same show that didn't describe the Schroedingers Cat thought experiment correctly so maybe not. What did they get wrong with Schroedinger's Cat? I'm not an expert at all and just skimmed the Wikipedia page, but wasn't their description basically right?
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May 10, 2016 02:18
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May 10, 2016 03:00
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I don't even know there were bios. So the entire sales team is Jack's people from his previous company. Should've realized that.
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May 10, 2016 03:22
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Windows 98 posted:Richard's bio is missing from the Pied Piper website I don't think it was ever there.
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May 10, 2016 04:15
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White Noise Marine posted:I don't think it was ever there. his was just a blank page last time I saw the site. is he removed entirely now?
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May 10, 2016 04:38
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bring back old gbs posted:his was just a blank page last time I saw the site. is he removed entirely now? No it's still a blank page. I hadn't seen it until now so I had thought they removed something.
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May 10, 2016 04:42
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Even ignoring the episode title, it's a plot point in Ocean's Eleven that when things seem to fail catastrophically, it's actually part of the plan. I doubt the knee pads figure in to the plot. More likely they're to save precious actor knees.
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May 10, 2016 05:04
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Mister Fister posted:Oh hey guys, there's a lot of evidence that getting caught was part of the plan: The kneepads might've just been a legal thing - in that they didn't want him - the actor - to get hurt.
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May 10, 2016 05:07
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Last Chance posted:I just love the way Stephen Tobolowsky says "What?! No! God no!!" to Richard I'm a little behind, but I just got to this part and fell out of my chair laughing, rewound, and laughed again. It's just the perfect summation of startup scaleout (like my last company  )edit: And the loving thing all the sales people do where they say their name before they speak like they're on a loving business call 
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May 10, 2016 05:08
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I thought the safety thing too but people on reddit have been saying that there would be no point in him wearing kneepads for the elevator scene when it probably wasn't shot at the same time as the tripping scene. I'm guessing that Richard looked up whatever haversack later, saw what the original plan was and then made up a fake skunkworks to trick Jack.
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May 10, 2016 05:19
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Avasculous posted:I'm exploring consulting as a career option now, and the 'conjoined triangles of success' is exactly my problem with so much of business education: take 5-6 painfully general buzzwords, put them on an arbitrary graphical design, give them an air of reverence and some credentials behind the author, and you can sell it in a $40 paperback book to aspiring tycoons everywhere. Consulting is literally the most useless industry ever.
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May 10, 2016 06:19
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DrunkPanda posted:Consulting is literally the most useless industry ever. Consult is nothing but the word 'con' and 60% of the word 'insult.'
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May 10, 2016 06:42
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Avasculous posted:
Basically the entire point of the experiment itself. The original is a canister or vial of poison that would be released if whatever subatomic occurrence you want to make fun of occurs and triggers the mechanism. In the show they just dumb it down to poison food. One you are leaving it to subatomic change (the whole point of the thought process joke) the other you just poisoned a cat in box and left it closed. Not a big thing, but neither would be having their plan not 100% follow the historical definition of the scheme. It probably will though, but I can't figure out what they could possibly gain by feigning false skunkworks instead of just doing it.
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May 10, 2016 06:50
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Consult is nothing but the word 'con' and 60% of the word 'insult.' It is also 100% of the word "dumbass". As in, you have to be a dumbass to hire one... It's not actually related to the word dumbass, I made that part up 
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May 10, 2016 07:02
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Loved the chain jokes, the ending was incredibly frustrating and disappointing though. I really hope the "twist" turns out to be true.BIG HEADLINE posted:The kneepads might've just been a legal thing - in that they didn't want him - the actor - to get hurt.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Consult is nothing but the word 'con' and 60% of the word 'insult.'  Except in the construction/resource industry, where it's more 90%, since people have to know at least enough to BS their way through.
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