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Colonel Whitey posted:Jian Yang's pronunciation isn't that bad, I don't really believe the VC thinks he has an Oculus app. Even if they did, "eight Oculus recipes" doesn't make any sense. Bighead only thought so because he's kinda stupid and wasn't really paying attention. However it still doesn't explain why the VCs are meeting with him. I think Jian Yang is much much smarter than he lets on to Erlich and is totally playing him, possibly with an actual good app idea in his back pocket to be revealed at the right time. That may be how he got the VC meeting but that's total speculation. Eh, I think we're overthinking it at this point, and probably getting close to complaining about the magic xylophone -- it was just a funny joke, and they're probably not going to revisit it at all. I just thought it was an odd note when they've done ridiculous but plausible app ideas before.
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May 2, 2017 19:27
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I'd have to rewatch the scene but if I recall correctly Erlich gets 10% stake in the octopus app for one year of rent. I wouldn't be surprised if Jian Yang does reveal a different app that the VC are interested in.
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May 2, 2017 19:31
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What I don't get is why do they need to build an app or platform or something so myopic like video chat? If their compression algorithm is the bees knees why can't it just be licensed out to companies for huge cash so that every sector of tech: downloading, streaming, storing data etc... is catapulted lightyears ahead while still making billions?
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May 2, 2017 20:24
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Should have built the box.
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May 2, 2017 20:30
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priznat posted:Rewatching some clips last night and Erlich's reaction to Dinesh saying "Russ was right, this guy fucks".. I loved Jared trying come up with other topics he and Richard could talk about "Sports teams and their various scores ... uh ... pussy" Phi230 posted:What I don't get is why do they need to build an app or platform or something so myopic like video chat? So the box then?
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May 2, 2017 20:35
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PostNouveau posted:So the box then? Not even a box. Just patent the poo poo out of it and license middle out like MP3/HEVC/etc.
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May 2, 2017 20:37
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gret posted:Not even a box. Just patent the poo poo out of it and license middle out like MP3/HEVC/etc. Yeah seems like a good idea
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May 2, 2017 20:47
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah seems like a good idea But, you see, that doesn't win Richard a Nobel Prize for ~changing the world~, so no, it's a *terrible* idea. It is becoming kind of clear that even though he's socially awkward, the sole anima driving Richard is that he wants to be 'that guy on the stage' from the very first episode. "Let's all recognize his genius and clap for an hour like they do in North Korea!"
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May 2, 2017 20:52
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BIG HEADLINE posted:But, you see, that doesn't win Richard a Nobel Prize for ~changing the world~, so no, it's a *terrible* idea. It is becoming kind of clear that even though he's socially awkward, the sole anima driving Richard is that he wants to be 'that guy on the stage' from the very first episode. "Let's all recognize his genius and clap for an hour like they do in North Korea!" Right yeah, it's not at all hard to believe that Richard wouldn't go this route for ego reasons.
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May 2, 2017 20:55
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He could always go the Tim Berners-Lee route, if he is completely serious about wanting to change the world. Though that would obviously be less funny.
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May 2, 2017 21:30
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Yeah, the ~wheels within wheels~ thing here is that at his core, Richard is just another Gavin Belson-to-be. Pretty sure this series is going to end with Jared smothering Richard to death with a pillow because he realizes his grand hope to hitch his wagon to a 'better and kinder' Silicon Valley demagogue just created another lovely emotionally-bankrupt one.
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May 2, 2017 21:38
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Phi230 posted:What I don't get is why do they need to build an app or platform or something so myopic like video chat? Because this is Silicon Valley. Not that it's this show, that simply licensing something isn't what that culture is about. The box was always the smartest move.
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May 2, 2017 21:41
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Yeah, the ~wheels within wheels~ thing here is that at his core, Richard is just another Gavin Belson-to-be. Pretty sure this series is going to end with Jared smothering Richard to death with a pillow because he realizes his grand hope to hitch his wagon to a 'better and kinder' Silicon Valley demagogue just created another lovely emotionally-bankrupt one. I would love to watch that scene. That would be an amazing scene to watch with Jared.
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May 2, 2017 23:36
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I still can't believe this show is so good. Like the writing and acting are just perfectly on point it's amazing.blunt posted:Should have built the box.
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May 3, 2017 00:27
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That off-handed comment about Belson's wig was perfect. Such a casual remark, implying that everybody "knows" that Belson wears a wig, and yet it's exactly the kind of thing to get under his skin and eat at him for the rest of the season. Action Jack is either a brilliant mastermind playing the long con or the wholesome antithesis to Belson's competitive paranoia.
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May 3, 2017 00:35
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404notfound posted:That off-handed comment about Belson's wig was perfect. Such a casual remark, implying that everybody "knows" that Belson wears a wig, and yet it's exactly the kind of thing to get under his skin and eat at him for the rest of the season. Action Jack is either a brilliant mastermind playing the long con or the wholesome antithesis to Belson's competitive paranoia. Last season established him as a manipulator; it's entirely possible he hijacked the jet to irritate Gavin.
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May 3, 2017 00:58
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404notfound posted:That off-handed comment about Belson's wig was perfect. Such a casual remark, implying that everybody "knows" that Belson wears a wig, and yet it's exactly the kind of thing to get under his skin and eat at him for the rest of the season. Action Jack is either a brilliant mastermind playing the long con or the wholesome antithesis to Belson's competitive paranoia. I saw it more as base hair envy. An omen of more petty things to come.
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May 3, 2017 03:08
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Phenotype posted:Eh, I think we're overthinking it at this point, and probably getting close to complaining about the magic xylophone -- it was just a funny joke, and they're probably not going to revisit it at all. I just thought it was an odd note when they've done ridiculous but plausible app ideas before.
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May 3, 2017 04:43
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Perhaps he takes his app and crosses it with whatever VR thing they end up doing and you learn the recipes firsthand from a VR version of Jian yang's grandma.
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May 3, 2017 05:07
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get that OUT of my face posted:It'll either lead to nothing, or Jian Yang will get rich down the line by appealing to the bizarre tastes of Silicon Valley egotists. Jian Yang will develop a "Can I Uh Smoke Here" (the "Uh" is very important) app that uses your phone's GPS to determine if you're legally allowed to smoke in that specific place, and where the closest place you *are* allowed to smoke is and how to get to it. He'll be hailed as a visionary for keeping smokers away from Californians who want healthy lungs, and celebrated by smokers for keeping them away from complainers.
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May 3, 2017 05:30
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That or it lists what is going on that day so you can say you're celebrating something.
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May 3, 2017 12:37
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Colonel Whitey posted:I was sad we didn't get a "mother gently caress" out of Erlich at any point. Every time he says it he gives a different line reading and it's a brilliant running gag. dont google mother gently caress compilation
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May 3, 2017 14:17
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Phi230 posted:What I don't get is why do they need to build an app or platform or something so myopic like video chat? I was saying this in Season 1, or whenever he explained that his big idea was to make a platform for people to upload files, which is really the dumbest possible use of the algorithm. The obvious use, which they kinda touched on with the porn company, is to market it to ISPs to essentially quadruple their bandwidth and speed, work with the big media players to replace .mp4/.mkv with ultra-small PP media files, talk to the big datacenter companies about creating a new database file standard at 400% efficiency. Even the box was a really dumb version of this -- why would you just market it as a large hard drive when there are so many wider applications? And the kicker is that it absolutely would make Richard into a Nobel-Prize-winning world-changer Steve Jobs personality, it would change the tech industry at basically every level. Here I don't mind them not going with ultra-realism, though -- even typing that out sounded like a much more boring show filled with hurried tech explanations and mostly populated with people like that poor dead-eyed database engineer in the basement of Maliant. Phenotype fucked around with this message at 14:46 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 14:44
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Now all Richard has left is to hope that Peter Thiel notices his new internet nonsense and tosses him a couple million a la urbit
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I can't remember if they explained it when the series started, but what is with the Always Blue game or whatever it is that they keep doing?
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Oasx posted:I can't remember if they explained it when the series started, but what is with the Always Blue game or whatever it is that they keep doing? Quick google search led me to this post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/22ef88/always_blue/ quote:Programmer here. It's a reference to Red Blue trees in djorski algorthm. You see, in his tree4 system the database with polymorphism enabled would always go to blue on the tree (representing 0xFB on the hexscalar). There's a programming joke that the algorithm is way too efficient, therefore always producing "always blue" instead of red or yellow (representing binary 0011001 for dot hex finite series). It's a pretty funny joke Lol, nerds.
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Oasx posted:I can't remember if they explained it when the series started, but what is with the Always Blue game or whatever it is that they keep doing? It's also a joke about how Silicon Valley types are supposed to be the smartest people on the planet and yet they are entertaining themselves with a simple game and a chant.
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May 3, 2017 18:01
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underage at the vape shop posted:dont google mother gently caress compilation Or do, who are we to judge
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Jian Yang will develop a "Can I Uh Smoke Here" (the "Uh" is very important) app that uses your phone's GPS to determine if you're legally allowed to smoke in that specific place, and where the closest place you *are* allowed to smoke is and how to get to it. He'll be hailed as a visionary for keeping smokers away from Californians who want healthy lungs, and celebrated by smokers for keeping them away from complainers. Stealing this idea. Hey Silicon valley VC's where da seed money at?!
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teagone posted:Quick google search led me to this post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/22ef88/always_blue/ Not sure if you are serious, but the post isn't.
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Xarn posted:Not sure if you are serious, but the post isn't.  me. loving reddit.
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Fututor Magnus posted:Now all Richard has left is to hope that Peter Thiel notices his new internet nonsense and tosses him a couple million a la urbit And he keeps asking Jared to give him his blood for ~reasons~, constantly leaving Jared a pint or two low and loopy as gently caress as a result.
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Oasx posted:I can't remember if they explained it when the series started, but what is with the Always Blue game or whatever it is that they keep doing? They're throwing a Hoberman Switch Pitch (http://www.hoberman.com/fold/Switchpitch/switchpitch.htm) that's blue and yellow, and chanting ALWAYS BLUE ALWAYS BLUE. No real explanation, just nerd poo poo.
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May 3, 2017 22:38
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Someone noticed that it always ends up being blue, so they would just chant "always blue" while tossing it.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/22ef88/always_blue/ There's this thing called Google, it's useful.
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Yeah I think all they're doing is throwing it up just high enough so that it doesn't flip to the other color, and they made a stupid "game" and chant out of that. They made a game out of playing with a silly toy ball the wrong way.
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King Vidiot posted:Yeah I think all they're doing is throwing it up just high enough so that it doesn't flip to the other color, and they made a stupid "game" and chant out of that. They made a game out of playing with a silly toy ball the wrong way. The game looks like you need to throw it hard enough to make it flip and then flip back, since from the slowmo video it seems like even a little nudge will start the first transition.
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Phenotype posted:...work with the big media players to replace .mp4/.mkv with ultra-small PP media files... heh, what a wasted opportunity for penis jokes
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