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Anybody else like the HBO series Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]
The missus started recording it for me a few weeks ago, but I only got around to watching the last 3 episodes last night and found it to be quite amusing...for a show about a bunch of geeks and a software company! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I started watching "The IT Crowd[^]" on Netflix (it does stream). Funny show. I'll have to check out Silicon Valley.
Hogan
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There were a few mentions of 'The IT Crowd' being a good watch...now on my list. Thanks. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I haven't seen it, but I bet it's not as good as The IT Crowd[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I implemented a HaltAndCatchFire function in C once.
The hardware had a PSU controlled by a Microchip uProcessor (one of the eight leg jobbies) which selected the right transformer coils in order to work on an massive range of mains voltages - IIRC 60VAC to 300VAC.
And we had problems with a distributor who had a habit of buying a few machines, then never buying any more - but producing his own.
So...the software had a large number of checks built into it to make sure that it was legal, and the hardware was right. If it wasn't...it instructed the uP to switch the transformer to Seriously Stupid Voltages and burn the heck out of the PCB. HCF. Sorted.
Unfortunately, the PSU was changed to a switch-mode, and I lost the ability to have the software commit hari-kari... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Now that's what's called unforgiving QA.
/ravi
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If you like Mike Judge's other stuff (Office Space, Idiocracy, etc), you'll like Silicon Valley. It's that kind of humor.
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I enjoy it.
Jeremy Falcon
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"Move Along - nothing to say here" [clickity][^] "We'll make sure of it . . ."
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 20-May-16 13:29pm.
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Obligatory XKCD[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And this differs from people being paid to post positive reviews on Amazon and the like?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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And competitors paying people to post negative reviews on Amazon. I've seen my share of those reviews too!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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If you cannot discern the difference between chicanery in the private sector with a government trying to suppress the truth from its people - well I doubt I could get the concept across to you.
(And in the commercial corner, Ali Baba's fake sales number by paying people to buy and return items (only reporting the sale part) is rather innovative if you prefer sleaze).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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On the contrary, if you can, you're probably looking at it all wrong!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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So your saying my girlfriend may actually be a Chinese official? 
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 ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
/ravi
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The best part of it is this:
"Pun grabbed the tripod of his machine gun and tossed it at the Taliban’s face, which knocked the enemy fighter off of the roof of the building"
Valiance is in their blood. Hail Gorkha!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Do hill walkers in South Wales have to tread Caerphilly?
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Do they get a yellow Cardiff they don't? As long as they're not Snowdon, they should be ok
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Got the team to finally give up Hipchat in favor of Slack. Had countless issues with Hipchat being able to connect to its own servers and stay connected during the day. I worked with their support, but they never figured it out! No I'm hoping that Slack lives up the all the hype!
Hogan
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The UX is much less important than being able to use it. Can't connect == uninstall!
Hogan
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Key thing to check fist[^]
We got license for office365, Lync(aka Skypeforbiz) etc & we've also been using Hangouts, WhatsApp and so on. Now there's a team that boasted using Slack and pushed everyone to use it at work. They wanted to feel themselves like "NASA", (As they say , some team in NASA uses slack and similar brags you can see in slack's home page)
I once made a post on Slack here saying it's nothing so big.
One merit, (Few other merits also) I recently noticed is that It's got a centralized control of the users/messages as there's a concept called "Team" , "Channel" etc.
This is huge missing piece in Hangouts & WhatsApp. For example, a gruesome employee does a gross mischief at work and he's fired. If you've been using Hangouts/Whatsapp all along during work, All the work related messages' copies would be left in this crook's account. You don't have control over these. Slack got that control, I find this a big positive. Like a mini-ActiveDir. Other good thing I notice is the speed , right from sign-in, messages, notifications everything comes quite quick.
Having said all these, the brag_team never checked the price tab in Slack. Which says only the top 10,000 messages only you can access for free. Above which, all older messages get pushed to the abyss, you cannot access.
Just the chat session about "WHY WE LIKE SLACK", in slack itself finished that first 10K messages quota. Everything counts. Even if you post a simple " " and press enter, the message counter ticks!
Now all those people who posted stats on how they stopped using Emails, Hangsouts blah blah, lost all those important links they posted long ago before in slack. That's quite a shrewd marketing trap you see!. They can't access it until they move to next tier.
Now our management is thinking if they should pay money again to slack in addition to Office365. They wouldn't move this soon. So ALL_SLACK_BRAGS_OFF at work. They are back to emails and using slack just for normal light talks. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 20-May-16 12:12pm.
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