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Mr. Nemo posted:lol, you are so far down the rabbit hole that you think moving a folder involves a command line. no, that's much easier with an icon and mouse, what are you talking about?? I said using a command line to "change directory" (aka one of the "easy" basic unix commands the guy i quoted was talking about) is a completely alien concept to people and is contrary to everything they know about modern computers. the fact that you think "change directory" means moving a folder just further backs this up. Last Chance fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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MiddleOne posted:Nudity? I'm saying that SV is something like 90% nerd references and not talking about them in this thread is like not talking about how lovely BBT is in the BBT thread(bazinga!).
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Last Chance posted:the fact that you think "change directory" means moving a folder just further backs this up. I just looked this up. I wasn't going to make fun of him because moving folders does sound simple, but after seeing what it involves Holy syhhhiitttt  GET OUT AND MEET REAL PEOPLE PLEASE YOU ARE TERRIBLE AT IT SOLTUIONS
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waitwhatno posted:I'm saying that SV is something like 90% nerd references and not talking about them in this thread is like not talking about how lovely BBT is in the BBT thread(bazinga!). And exactly 74.3% of those nerd references are about real life technology companies like Slack and Clinkle which some people feel like conversing about and some people who are not in the real life tech industry might not "get" without further discussion
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Basically PP should be simple and adorable like https://tinypng.com and oh hey, they have an api if you need advanced use. They also need the panda.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:06
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The Dave posted:Basically PP should be simple and adorable like https://tinypng.com and oh hey, they have an api if you need advanced use. What do you have against the current mascot? It's a homeless street musician that abducts children at night and makes them disappear. 
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Jun 9, 2016 18:12
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The Mandingo posted:Oh new posts. Clicks thread. More stuff not about the show. It's a nerdy show about nerd stuff and you expected to not see nerd stuff in the thread?
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The Dave posted:Basically PP should be simple and adorable like https://tinypng.com and oh hey, they have an api if you need advanced use. Yes, exactly a select file option or a drop file here option. No need to change the directory from where PP is working or something like that, if that's even what the other guy was talking about. But still, no need to even start talking about Unix, any UX that needs you to write a command would be a failure with 95% of the gen pop.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Yes, exactly a select file option or a drop file here option. Exactly what I was saying. i don't know how i got lumped into beign the guy suggesting unix commands because thats not what i was saying Last Chance fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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Jun 9, 2016 18:22
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Cojawfee posted:It's a nerdy show about nerd stuff and you expected to not see nerd stuff in the thread? I really don't see what non-nerds get out of the show, I have to explain to my wife a bunch of the jokes and references. I'm really happy there's a comedy show on TV that's aimed at tech people. As opposed to shows like big bang theory who are for people who hate nerds or who call themselves nerds because they spend all day on facebook.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:34
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It's not really for "tech people." Tech people just like hearing poo poo they know about being mentioned on a show and then sperge about it for week while not discussing the "show" itself because it's very straight forward and there's not a lot to discuss about it.
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ElCondemn posted:I really don't see what non-nerds get out of the show, I have to explain to my wife a bunch of the jokes and references. I'm really happy there's a comedy show on TV that's aimed at tech people. As opposed to shows like big bang theory who are for people who hate nerds or who call themselves nerds because they spend all day on facebook. I'm not a tech person and I enjoy the hell out of the show. Most of the jokes make sense to people who have sat in front of a computer and know what hard drives are. You don't have to be an experienced software engineer to get the jokes. Most of the discussion in this thread is grade A autistic bullshit, though
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ElCondemn posted:I really don't see what non-nerds get out of the show, I have to explain to my wife a bunch of the jokes and references. I'm really happy there's a comedy show on TV that's aimed at tech people. As opposed to shows like big bang theory who are for people who hate nerds or who call themselves nerds because they spend all day on facebook. There are maybe one or two esoteric jokes per episode. It's not written in some sort of secret tech nerd code. You don't have to explain why standing up to your boss in front of two horses loving or a monotone satanist insulting his roommates are funny things.
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We're just not getting the "full humor" of one off mentions of specific software. I guess you could say it works on different levels, but it really doesn't. The humor of "how is Slack a thing?!" is funny if you know what Slack is or not.
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's not really for "tech people." Tech people just like hearing poo poo they know about being mentioned on a show and then sperge about it for week while not discussing the "show" itself because it's very straight forward and there's not a lot to discuss about it. You're not wrong. It's cool that there's a show that is completely relatable to my day to day work and can make jokes about with my coworkers and we all get it. Solice Kirsk posted:We're just not getting the "full humor" of one off mentions of specific software. I guess you could say it works on different levels, but it really doesn't. The humor of "how is Slack a thing?!" is funny if you know what Slack is or not. The parallels to real life are off the charts, and I like that. https://backchannel.com/who-are-the-real-life-models-of-silicon-valley-characters-we-have-them-3507bc890d9a#.w2e257vu3 Fiendish Dr. Wu fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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I'm talking about the show overall, not the specific scene about Slack. Though I don't see how that line would have been funny to anyone who doesn't know what Slack is. She just said "I passed on Slack" and that means nothing to anyone not in the field. I'm mostly talking about how poo poo like the whole episode around code formatting, the stuff that people in this thread don't enjoy talking about. edit: I'd also like to point out, it does work on another level for people in the industry. To the people that enjoy it because they like watching horses gently caress it's a different show I'm sure, but to me I've met a lot of people just like that. I've had conversations with marketing people that mirror the show exactly. There are lots of things in the show that are extremely on point. ElCondemn fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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ElCondemn posted:She just said "I passed on Slack" and that means nothing to anyone not in the field. There goes IT again acting like they know what they're talking about. http://fortune.com/2016/04/01/slack-raises-200-million-at-3-8-billion-valuation/ http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-canceled-8-billion-slack-bid-due-to-bill-gates-and-satya-nadella-pushback-2016-3 If you follow business at all then you've heard about Slack just via how much money they've been worth lately. IT WAS A BUSINESS JOKE NOT AN IT JOKE YOU loving NERD
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Veskit posted:There goes IT again acting like they know what they're talking about. We get it. You're some sort of middle managment weirdo who looks down on IT people.
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Veskit posted:There goes IT again acting like they know what they're talking about. are you okay?
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Cojawfee posted:We get it. You're some sort of middle managment weirdo who looks down on IT people. Looks down? Last Chance posted:are you okay? Always
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Veskit posted:There goes IT again acting like they know what they're talking about. You've really shown me that a "cloud collaboration software company" isn't a tech thing...  I guess I'll just be a NERD about it, it hurts so much!
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ElCondemn posted:I'm talking about the show overall, not the specific scene about Slack. Though I don't see how that line would have been funny to anyone who doesn't know what Slack is. She just said "I passed on Slack" and that means nothing to anyone not in the field. We use context clues and basic common sense to get the joke. Like, when she says "I passed on Slack", I got the joke, even though I don't know what language it is coded in, or the intricacies of IRC protocol. I got the joke because I had heard of Slack in the past, and understood the punchline was that she had passed on a very successful company. And that other episode was not about code formatting. That was just the minor, dumb topic that drove the joke of Richard being an OCD weirdass. I know it might suck finding out that this show wasn't written specifically for IT nerds, and these jokes are understood by people outside your field 
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Pron on VHS posted:We use context clues and basic common sense to get the joke. Like, when she says "I passed on Slack", I got the joke, even though I don't know what language it is coded in, or the intricacies of IRC protocol. I got the joke because I had heard of Slack in the past, and understood the punchline was that she had passed on a very successful company. And that other episode was not about code formatting. That was just the minor, dumb topic that drove the joke of Richard being an OCD weirdass. You watch a show about tech nerds and you've heard of slack before? Maybe you're the demo for the jokes... edit: also, maybe to you it was a joke about Richard being an OCD weird rear end, but CLEARLY to a lot of us in this thread it's a contentious point and it's funny that this argument was brought up on a mainstream TV show. It's a different level for us, same with the line about emacs vs vi, it is funny to us in a different way. ElCondemn fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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Maybe HBO or Showtime will make a comedy about financial advisors so I can sit in a TVIV thread and talk about the difference between preferred stock vs bonds as an income tool. Then again I probably wouldn't since I'm able to separate my job from my entertainment/personality.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Maybe HBO or Showtime will make a comedy about financial advisors so I can sit in a TVIV thread and talk about the difference between preferred stock vs bonds as an income tool. Then again I probably wouldn't since I'm able to separate my job from my entertainment/personality. Good for you, I'm sure a lot of finance people would love a show centered around what they do for a living.
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And just like this show it wouldn't be written only for finance/banking people to enjoy. Otherwise it would basically be like watching a training video.
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Solice Kirsk posted:And just like this show it wouldn't be written only for finance/bankers to enjoy. Otherwise it would basically be like watching a training video. To some people SV is like watching a training video, they don't give a poo poo about this nerd poo poo. If this show were written to appeal to a wide audience it would just be the big bang theory.
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ElCondemn posted:I really don't see what non-nerds get out of the show, I have to explain to my wife a bunch of the jokes and references. I'm really happy there's a comedy show on TV that's aimed at tech people. As opposed to shows like big bang theory who are for people who hate nerds or who call themselves nerds because they spend all day on facebook. ElCondemn posted:
ew man, stop investing so much of your ego and self-worth into a show. It doesn't make you any less of a brilliant IT technician if people outside your field can also get the jokes.
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ElCondemn posted:You've really shown me that a "cloud collaboration software company" isn't a tech thing... Tech thing? There's nothing technical you will ever talk about it besides it's a clod collaboration chatroom. It's like saying cell phones are a tech thing that are inaccessible to non technical people. Also yeah you shouldn't be a nerd it's terrible and bad for you. ElCondemn posted:You watch a show about tech nerds and you've heard of slack before? Maybe you're the demo for the jokes... To bring it up again, the spaces joke was for technical people, Slack, not so much! Solice Kirsk posted:Maybe HBO or Showtime will make a comedy about financial advisors so I can sit in a TVIV thread and talk about the difference between preferred stock vs bonds as an income tool. Then again I probably wouldn't since I'm able to separate my job from my entertainment/personality. Nobody in BFC is as insufferable as someone who can code a little bit. Not even a lot, just a little. Also a show about financial advisers could get really loving sad fast 
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Pron on VHS posted:ew man, stop investing so much of your ego and self-worth into a show. It doesn't make you any less of a brilliant IT technician if people outside your field can also get the jokes. Maybe I'm just enjoying the show differently than you guys, it's clear you guys don't seem to like it the same way since you keep asking for the thread to be closed.
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Solice Kirsk posted:And just like this show it wouldn't be written only for finance/banking people to enjoy. I should mention that that movie is called office space.
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this is it. this is The Worst Thread on the Something Awful Forums. surely it can only get better from here. unless someone finds a screencap of richard wearing kneepads under his jeans from the last episode...
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Ok, maybe to get some actual discussion about the show, I'm wondering how they're going to end the season. Obviously, there's foreshadowing that the launch isn't going to go as well as Richard thinks it will, but I can't see it being a total clusterfuck. I am actually hoping they finally, and permanently, move HQ to a real office building. They've moved out and back in twice, and they really need to show them making some sort of progress. They can get the Japanese gardener guy back!
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Bird in a Blender posted:They've moved out and back in twice, and they really need to show them making some sort of progress. they did at least shut down their servers and migrate to AWS last episode
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I have a weird feeling Big Head is going to wind up with Pied Piper in some capacity by the end of the season. And of course he'll be super rich again somehow. Maybe as another investor? Can't remember if Ravidia or whoever has an exclusive funding deal with them or not.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Ok, maybe to get some actual discussion about the show, I'm wondering how they're going to end the season. Obviously, there's foreshadowing that the launch isn't going to go as well as Richard thinks it will, but I can't see it being a total clusterfuck. I am actually hoping they finally, and permanently, move HQ to a real office building. They've moved out and back in twice, and they really need to show them making some sort of progress. They can get the Japanese gardener guy back! If this is anything like what I've experienced in real life, there will be a lot of hype in the company, testers, partners and everyone even tangentially connected to it. But it will be a complete flop, they will se no hype or movement in the public and everyone will be dumbfounded. They've been in a bubble thinking this product launch is the most important thing, thinking people are clamoring to get their hands on it, but everyone will have forgotten about them. The tech awards give them a false sense of importance but because it took more than 2 weeks to go live the media has moved on.
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ElCondemn posted:If this is anything like what I've experienced in real life, there will be a lot of hype in the company, testers, partners and everyone even tangentially connected to it. But it will be a complete flop, they will se no hype or movement in the public and everyone will be dumbfounded. They've been in a bubble thinking this product launch is the most important thing, thinking people are clamoring to get their hands on it, but everyone will have forgotten about them. The tech awards give them a false sense of importance but because it took more than 2 weeks to go live the media has moved on. This would be great, but I don't know if it will be the case with Hoolie keeping the compression battle in everyone's mind. Maybe if they do a flash forward or something. Still I think it would be hilarious if it did work perfect and just nobody wound up caring about any of it. Like the tech community and blogs are all over it, but the general public gives zero shits and all the middle-out compression companies start to fizzle out. edit: And then Richard finally becomes a billionaire by releasing his original mp3 download app!
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