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Silicon Valley - Season 2 of the hilarious Mike Judge comedy series - HBO Sundays

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Cornballer

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New episode tonight:
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With the Pied Piper team fielding job offers, Richard faces the prospect of either merging with a nemesis or folding; Gavin attempts to turn Nucleus' failure into a success; Dinesh tries to woo a woman online; Gilfoyle suggests a risky move.
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Ghost_Messiah

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New episode! Beyond excited. You know last week's episode was so hilarious and amazing I think I'm going to watch it again just before the new one airs. So a Silicon Valley double episode. The plot direction seems to be getting more exciting also so I'm looking forward to tonight's new episode.

This is my favourite show at the moment. I remember feeling the same about season one too.
 
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big ander

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Been rewatching season 1 as my brother catches it for the first time and it's really confirming for me how badly the show slumped for the first half of season 2. Hope tonight is as hilarious as last week.
 
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Golden Domers are chickenshit!!
Edwardo said:
What did Russ say when he was talking about popping a boner?
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He was watching his stock tick his net worth up to $1B, and when it crossed that line he popped a boner and ejaculated all over the pillows.
 
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Awesome episode. The story is finally speeding up and going in an exciting direction. This is the most entertaining and inspired direction they could have possibly gone (thought for sure they were going to merge with End Frame for most of the episode). So it's Pied Piper versus End Frame next week. Exciting.

Pied Piper should theoretically win because they have the better algorithm. Hyped to see what happens next week.
 
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jett

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Gilfoyle solidifying his MVP position.

And Big Head is such an idiot holy shit. It's fun seeing Hooli in such disarray.
 
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big ander

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Eh. Cool to see Richard be outright aggressive for the first time, though I'm not sure how it'll pay off*. His awkward silence when he stormed into endframe was good. Russ was actually funny for the first time ever, the porn site names gag was fantastic. Dinesh's thing was stock sitcom fluff that I'm falling asleep just thinking about. Not enough Jaredonald.

*I think my problem with the way the plot has progressed this season is that it's all about throwing bigger insurmountable problems at Richard/PP and teasing how impossible it'll be only for something to save them. What I loved in season 1 was that each obstacle was actually fairly realistic—when he can't cash a check, when he can't decide what percentage to give people, that's an angle on a growing business I haven't seen as much in media. The first season made the banal administrative tasks out to be suffocating while demonstrating that their product was unassailable, so the conflict came from these petty dummies getting stressful paperwork done. The future where they were a legitimate company was in sight, but the winding path of red tape ahead was daunting. now it's just standard business drama like stolen ideas and big companies and unpredictable investors, all solved by last-minute solutions and twists. not as compelling.
 
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zychi

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Why doesn't Richard just sell the broken algorithm and Pied Piper to Hooli, and then make a new company with the real algorithm? The broken algorithm is already out there.
 
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zychi said:
Why doesn't Richard just sell the broken algorithm and Pied Piper to Hooli, and then make a new company with the real algorithm? The broken algorithm is already out there.
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I don't think Hooli was interested in anything less than the code and the team as hire-ons (likely to avoid such a situation). Plus, they'd probably own the code (new and old) in whatever contract they sign.

Poor Kevin Rose.
 
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I loved that Gilfoyle was drinking an Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout when he was telling Richard to take the left path. Its motto (based on the Russian historical figure Grigori Rasputin, who survived many attempts to kill him) is "Never Say Die." Fitting.

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Also a fantastic beer.
 
megamerican

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styl3s said:
The Kevin Rose bit came off like it was either a very bitter writer or a writer who is good friends with him because Rose is completely irrelevant as far as main stream tech people go.

Nobody knows who Rose is.
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To be mentioned in the same breath as Jobs and Zuckerberg is probably more of a compliment than anything. I figured the joke was going to end with a killshot that even Digg itself was a failure, but since it didn't I assume it was more of a good natured jab.
 
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this show is just on fire. Really looking forward to how the season wraps up. great stuff overall, and omg at the porn sites XD
 
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JambiBum

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After all of the shit that they've put Richard/PP through, they better get the contract next week or I'm done with the show. I said it last week, but my biggest problem with the show is that something always comes up that stops them from being successful. There's only so many bad coincidences one can believe before they get old. I enjoyed the episode and especially liked that Richard finally stepped up but if something happens next week where they don't get the contract when the show has made it very clear that they have a better algorithm than EndFrame then I'm done. Let them get the job and then have it change to whatever struggles they come across while trying to fulfill the contract.
 
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KarmaCow

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The formula of fallout from the last episode's last minute fuck up, pulling something out of their ass at the last minute, and then finding a new fuck up is getting kinda old, especially as it's ramping up. That said, I still enjoy the jokes that fill those moments. Richard storming in the board room and being unable to say anything was great.
 
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Dominican Power said:
Glifoyle has been on point since the first episode.



Is there anyone doing real middle out lossless compression irl?
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There's no such thing. What you would call it in real life is just a lossless compression algorithm, which do exist (PNG and FLAC are two common ones you know).

The middle-out moniker was something that the show creators told their tech consultants had to be included, to set up the joke at the season 1 finale which caused their breakthrough leading into season 2.

You can read more about it here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/a-madefortv-compression-algorithm

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I missed the site names gag. At what point was it in the episode?
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When Richard went to the adult conference and the CEO of the porn company was doing her presentation, they do camera pans of the crowd. In front of them is their site names. It's hilarious.
 
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