{"id":2801,"date":"2014-07-16T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:02:00","slug":"silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to catch up on some of the new Mike Judge show <cite>Silicon Valley<\/cite> and was quite amused.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyCover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyCover.png\" alt=\"SiliconValleyCover\" width=\"489\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2802\" srcset=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyCover.png 489w, http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyCover-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9YOEEpWAXgU&amp;feature=youtu.be\">clip shows the reality of remote conferencing<\/a> type tools. A bunch of nerdy nerds in Silicon Valley with a small start up. Stupid money flows around and everyone has their own ideas for software to <q>make the world a better place<\/q>. The best being human heaters which blast you with microwaves.<\/p>\n<p>Another clip shows why and how they started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HsJoLvRbri0\">Scrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyFashion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyFashion.jpg\" alt=\"SiliconValleyFashion\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyFashion.jpg 403w, http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyFashion-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SiliconValleyFashion-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s full of good references, similar to <cite>IT Crowd<\/cite>, with a few howlers that you can let pass for the sake of making the show flow (only one of them knowing Java, yeah right and a disturbing lack of source control). It mocks nerds and nerd culture whilst showing the PR people to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps\">babbling techno-phrases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to catch up on some of the new Mike Judge show Silicon Valley and was quite amused. This clip shows the reality of remote conferencing type tools. A bunch of nerdy nerds in Silicon Valley with a small start up. Stupid money flows around and everyone has their own ideas for software to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,24],"tags":[766,765],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","category-funny","tag-nerds","tag-silicon-valley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}