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Silicon Valley - Season 2 of the hilarious Mike Judge comedy series - HBO Sundays
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Kind of a disappointing episode for me. I know it's just a TV show, but they've set the bar pretty high as far as the technology realism goes. Having a delete key somehow delete everything on multiple systems is obviously ridiculous, and feels a little like the writers needed to come up with another hurdle for the guys but ran out of ideas.
Still better than anything else I'll watch this week, but a bit of a disappointment regardless.
Still better than anything else I'll watch this week, but a bit of a disappointment regardless.
thoseAREmySHOES
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The way Russ said "he fucks" with a perfect sense of confidence was great.
TwoDurans
"Never said I wasn't a hypocrite."
I'm not sure what program they were using, but in Transmit for Mac the delete key can easily remove any server-side files. Usually it'll ask if you're sure, but even that warning prompt can be disabled.
bearythebear
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The best part of the storyline is that Nucleus is just as fucked up for completely different reasons.
Cornballer
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- Onion A|V Club review
- Promo for next week's episode (please spoiler tag discussion as appropriate)
- Promo for next week's episode (please spoiler tag discussion as appropriate)
eyeball_kid
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Agreed; there's no way a sysadmin would give Pied Piper write access to their server, and there's no way they wouldn't have offline backups for most of their content.
I'm pretty tired of Richard though. And pretty tired of the racist stuff with Jian-Yang.
Hilarious episode, as usual though. Richard is still annoying, and it's getting to an uncomfortable level lol.
It's so funny how Russ never acknowledges Erlich.
It's kind of sill how all the company's data just gets deleted though. Wouldn't there normally be backups. Or shouldn't Pied Piper just be downloading from backups of the data?
It's so funny how Russ never acknowledges Erlich.
It's kind of sill how all the company's data just gets deleted though. Wouldn't there normally be backups. Or shouldn't Pied Piper just be downloading from backups of the data?
How do you explain redundancy protocols in a 30 minute story and where is the satisfying ending to that conflict? Humorous or otherwise. This was just an easy way to explain to the layman that hitting the delete key to delete is how that button works. It was funny and it worked, despite it not being realistically feasible unless both parties are inept (which thankfully for this show everyone that is involved kind of is).
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Delete just deletes stuff! Derp.
The weakest parts of this show are when they rely on silly gags that have nothing to do with the hilarity of its core subject matter, like accidentally putting a tequila bottle on a delete key..
Pretty good ep overall thanks ti the app pitch and Russ's delivery, just wish they had found a more interesting and clever way for them to screw up at the end, like the way they worked EndFrame in to the picture as a joke about clones and programmer's having a lot of business naivete.
Pretty good ep overall thanks ti the app pitch and Russ's delivery, just wish they had found a more interesting and clever way for them to screw up at the end, like the way they worked EndFrame in to the picture as a joke about clones and programmer's having a lot of business naivete.
don't you think him being wrong about constantly assuming that Seth was going to hack have any significance in regards to him growing as a character? obviously we haven't seen if there will be any 'repercussions' of this yet but I'm not sure that just because it wasn't hacked means richard hasn't potentially learned anything from how he acted.
if anything, seth actually hacking would only justify his actions of over-anxiety
that being said, richard was especially bad this ep
Rastafarian42
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Hilarious it kills me everytime.
PHOENIXZERO
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Ugh, another set back but besides that, funny shit.
The rule of threes on both got me on the axioms and swearing in front of kid jokes for some reason. Though, the jokes about Jian-Yang are getting pretty bad. It feels out of place and time.
And yea the delete key thing felt like two people on a keyboard hacking levels of TV dumb and is part of the larger problem of the last minute down turn formula of the show.
And yea the delete key thing felt like two people on a keyboard hacking levels of TV dumb and is part of the larger problem of the last minute down turn formula of the show.
dead souls
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Funny episode.
Cabbagehead
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it was an okay episode a lot of stuff happened to move the plot forward for better or worse. Though as bunch of people in the IT field pointed out on the silicon sub reddit it seems a good lot of things technical in nature took a back seat.
Hope they don't do that again. Otherwise that "hack" would have not been a problem in real life.
Hope they don't do that again. Otherwise that "hack" would have not been a problem in real life.
I said it last week but after this whole debacle I'm done with the show now. Yeah the show is pretty funny but as others have said the whole things can't go right for PP bit is just tiring at this point. I was really hoping that they would just play up Richard's paranoia with Seth but still have things go smoothly for them in the end. Instead we get the whole delete key thing somehow locking everyone out from doing anything while deleting the files at both sites instead of just at theirs. If they wanted to go that route they could have just had it delete the files locally and make them have to redo the transfer causing more stress for Richard.
RatskyWatsky
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That was a terrible episode, outside of a couple funny moments ("He fucks"). Just kind of exasperating to watch, but not in a good way.
Princess Carl
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I seriously can't stand how shit Middleditch's character is when he's so fucking funny in real life. My interest in next week's episode(and the show in general) has definitely waned.
Yup.
Yup.
WesternHeretic
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Yea it's getting really old. This whole we keep fucking ourselves over crap.
Princess Carl
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It was great, but it wasn't great enough to make up for the same shit over and over again.
Exactly. They can only do this start up fuck up shit for so long before it gets stale. I want to see how Richard acts once he's rich and does stupid shit because of it.
jonnyp
Member
A million times this. It's still hilarious and I love the show but this whole setback-schtick that goes on in every episode needs to stop really soon. It's getting boring now.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
For fucks sake Russ.
I think the constant fucking up is going to happen for all of this season until both they and hooli are in such dissary that the only option left to either of them (and for Russ to get back into the 3 comma club) is a hooli buyout, but one that gives Richard a lot of things like still heading up the division.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Nah, that's not happening.
I don't think the Intersite business is over yet. If it is, then it was introduced for no reason at all, just a distraction for a few episodes. They'll get their win in the final episode. This show isn't Always Sunny in Philadelphia, these guys are people that actually deserve some happiness in their life.
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