re: Silicon Valley Season 3!!!

Jared is now one of my favorite characters.

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He essentially stole 1 million from big head. What fantasy version of Bachman have you built up in your head.

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He wouldn't do that to Richard. He actually cares about Richard.

The next episode is titled bachmann's earnings override

So maybe ehrlich took out a loan against pied piper future earnings?

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The thing is, I've been one of those people for a very long time, and I can tell you, no one wants to deal with all that complexity all the time. You want it to be available when necessary, but you want it to be nicely abstracted away for regular use so you normally aren't distracted by it. Distractions waste time and breed errors.

Again, there is ample prior art WRT to the presets, and I can't believe they're ignorant of it, or that they believe they can get away with not implementing the feature. So that bar is already set; they don't even have to eat their own dog food to discover their app is clunky.

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I agree with this at some level. That level of tunnel vision is a problem that someone should have called out by now.

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It's doubly unbelievable that Monica was unable to articulate what she didn't like about it beyond "everything

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She's probably embarrassed because of the social pressure. She's a non techie, non geek, non male presence in the middle of some very high level geeks who are not known for their ability to handle differences or criticism very well. Social pressure prevents people from identifying naked emperors.

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he thinks the whole thing will come crashign down because his personal laptop got a virus?

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I thought he was worried the hacker would gain access to the plethora of illegal and unethical things he does on his laptop. They spent the episode showing you that he has a "security advisor" who's only job is to steal things and monitor things etc...

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The UI is clunky, everyone who Beta tested was in the industry and liked the high level user interface, even Hooli. The public may not. We'll have to see.

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If that becomes an issue all they have to do is have a "simple" and "advanced" mode for the UI.

Very easy fix.

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Not sure how much he sold but I'm sticking with this guy buying the shares.

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He didn't sell the shares to Gavin

That's the last thing that would happen. If anything he probably asked Lori to buy out or loan him against how ever much he owed on the party (I think it was only $1 million out of his $25 million)

You don't get to Gavin this way. He just made some sort of deal with Lori, I don't even see how you arrived at Gavin here...because they "Can't keep him in the mix any other way" is a retarded premise. They still have the tech blog girl out there and also the super security hacker guy. He's not going anywhere.

With Big Head involved, it will likely blow up right as they try to sell and they will make a killing.

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That's the last thing that would happen. If anything he probably asked Lori to buy out or loan him against how ever much he owed on the party (I think it was only $1 million out of his $25 million)

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If that's the case Richard wouldn't be mad at all at him

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The thing is, I've been one of those people for a very long time, and I can tell you, no one wants to deal with all that complexity all the time. You want it to be available when necessary, but you want it to be nicely abstracted away for regular use so you normally aren't distracted by it. Distractions waste time and breed errors.

Again, there is ample prior art WRT to the presets, and I can't believe they're ignorant of it, or that they believe they can get away with not implementing the feature. So that bar is already set; they don't even have to eat their own dog food to discover their app is clunky.

It's doubly unbelievable that Monica was unable to articulate what she didn't like about it beyond "everything", and that all the beta testers loved it. I've never been on a beta where everyone and his brother didn't have a ton of suggestions. IRL, I expect the #1 comment would have been, "You guys ever hear of presets?"

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this, I engineer server solutions in O&G. The over complicated UI is a road bump, but a minor one at best because of how ground breaking this technology would be. The "BETA" period they are calling it, would never ever happen that way IRL. Never. Ever. And sure, if we played along with the story...maybe all the techies in that industry they handed out keys to, would love it. But more than likely, you would still have a small majority, who could pick and poke out bugs and issues left and right. "fresh eyes". Then, once they expanded the BETA to a much larger audience or more diverse market, they'd get killed for the UI being over complicated and not straight lined for the average user or business user. Even these group of nerds, wouldn't just rush into a full release without a lot and i mean a lot more testing and user feedback. It's their baby, they want all the feedback they can get, so when it does release it's flawless. And there's no way Lauri and Aviga would allow this rushed release.

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If that becomes an issue all they have to do is have a "simple" and "advanced" mode for the UI.

Very easy fix.

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ding ding ding. correct. this will be the solution or in real life would be the solution. but this is a TV drama.

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She's probably embarrassed because of the social pressure. She's a non techie, non geek, non male presence in the middle of some very high level geeks who are not known for their ability to handle differences or criticism very well. Social pressure prevents people from identifying naked emperors.

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I agree, it is likely the social pressure from being Richard's "friend", but she should still urge them to BETA test to a larger audience and more diverse user group, instead of just playing along to avoid hurting Richard's feewings. Again, IRL, no way Lauri and Monica would let them just release Pied Piper in the way they plan to. That's their job, to herd these nerds into making a profitable product.

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One thing I did find odd was gavin's freakout. Despite his hiring the people he already fired, this is a guy smart enough and business savvy enough to lead this massive, billion dollar company but he thinks the whole thing will come crashign down because his personal laptop got a virus? And he thinks his staff can work with no power in the building? I know he was freakign out but it just seemed a bit of a stretch.

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Haha. I agree. I thought it was overkill, but I got a good chuckle out of his reaction for 2 reasons. 1) It's very Gavin like. Overreact and loose his mind anytime he's not on top.

2) It reminded me of a time, where i work, where we got his hard by a very evasive worm in one of our data centers in the Middle East. It was because a hacker was systematically having USB sticks dropped in the parking lots. At some point, someone picked one up. Thought to themselves, "ohh sweet, a free USB stick.....i wonder what's on it." Then proceeded to plug it into their company laptop. Heck, not sure on the details but it may have been a datacenter employee, who plugged it into one of our servers. Caused a huge meltdown for us, entire data center had to be wiped and rebuilt from scratch.

Of course the high level managers didn't like hearing this, we were losing millions by the hour. So instead of consulting the true techies on an easy solution to prevent external media from anywhere being stuck into company equipment. One of the higher up IT managers ignorantly suggested we buy up a ton of superglue and put superglue in all the free USB slots in the data center.

hilarious to the rest of us, but eventually someone told him we could force a policy update across the company for every piece of equipment not to read external media via USB. this was 10+ years ago.

But the Gavin freak out reminded me of that story.