Why is he such an idiot ?
He knows there's no way the company can live without him, he knows he's the only one who can finish the product and make any money with the company... so why not calling their bluff ?
He should have said: I'm the CEO or I quit and all your money goes to waste and my super idea is dead in the water, you'll have invest time and money for nothing. Is this what you want ?
OF COURSE they would have cave, they want money, that's it. At worse they would have reduce their investement.
He's the one with power and he doesn't realise it.
>>68771867
>Why is he such an idiot ?
because the show would be boring if he were sensible.
>He knows there's no way the company can live without him, he knows he's the only one who can finish the product and make any money with the company... so why not calling their bluff ?
the company probably could live without him, but it would take longer to get running. And he is kinda calling their bluff but he also isn't a dick (and gets played by the CEO).
>He should have said: I'm the CEO or I quit and all your money goes to waste and my super idea is dead in the water, you'll have invest time and money for nothing. Is this what you want ?
he could have said that and they would have said fine, good bye, and move on without him. Like I said above, they probably could have created A version of the software.
>OF COURSE they would have cave, they want money, that's it. At worse they would have reduce their investement.
they wouldn't have, and they didn't
>He's the one with power and he doesn't realise it.
he has some power, but there's a reason he's going to be CTO.
>>68772023
>and move on without him
to do what ? without him they have no product !
>>68772121
they have 90% of the product done. They could cobble together the rest to have a working version of the software, though it probably wouldn't be as good as if he had done it. OR it could be even way better. It's just a plot device that could go either way.
>>68772223
I loved the point where Gilfoyle and Danesh started to look through the code that they thought they could work with and realized that they need Richard.
>>68772331
I love the point where you fail to see that this is just a sitcom and the plot works to move the story forward, not to stroke your autism.
>>68772381
I love the point where your post is actually a lot more autistic than his.
>>68772879
of course, because I was stroking his autism. There's no way to answer his autistic post seriously without going full autismo. That's what happens when people try to nitpick a fucking sitcom
>his
come on buddy.
>>68771867
PROTIP: Most of the people in SV in real life are smart but not smart business wise.
This is the problem when you have poorly written characters like Walter White that solves le ebin problems with "le SCIENCE BITCH XD" and with crap out of their asses, retards that know shit about writing characters consider this as a standing point for characters and think that all characters should be like this.
Richard is actually more human than many other characters in television nowadays. He's smart but his ego is letting him down, he realizes this and fixes his mistakes.
>>68772942
I'm not sure what in my post got you so upset.
>>68774179
talk about autism
Because one of two things would happen in that case. They would've folded or just put out a half-assed imitation based upon what they already had.
But, either way, if he ever tried to code anything that remotely resembled the pied piper stuff, the parent consortium would've sued him into oblivion and taken everything he wrote as their property under the same clause as what the hooli CEO tried to do.
Either way, bad end.
>>68771867
Did you even watch the season premier? He totally did call their bluff, he accepted a new job at a different company for fucks sake. Except they actually weren't bluffing at all.
Also, Richard's lawyer is based as fuck.
>Baghead accepts the 20 mill
>Buys pied pieper
>General fillers story for 6-7 episodes
>something happens, and they need more money
>get saved bc muh sitcom luck
>season ends with a cliffhanger
>>68774656
>Except they actually weren't bluffing at all.
they kinda were and they were in complete control of the situation. If richard did leave, they would have just assembled a team of competent coders to finish the job. Probably not as well, but it would have gotten done.
>>68774754
>Baghead
big head
and he needs more than 20 mil breh.
>>68771867
They would sue the shit out of him, he wouldn't get any backers just because of the notion that any product somehow related to compression algorithms that came from his hand could potentially end up in a copyright infringement lawsuit as his original algorithm is registered to the name of the Pied Piper company and not Richard Hendricks. Have you not payed attention or are you simply retarded?
>>68774950
/thread
OP you are a fucking retard
>>68774789
>they would have just assembled a team of competent coders to finish the job
Exactly, they weren't bluffing. Reviga had already found Richard's replacement and they were going to move forward with or without him. They just didn't want him to be in charge of managerial shit, and for good reason.
>>68774825
Its clearly baghead
Best show on HBO. Glad it's back.
wait, why did they give the bighead 20 million?
>>68771867
>he's the only one who can finish the product
it's already finished. He's the only one who can "make it scale," even though that wouldn't be hard for a team of people if they have enough manpower to reverse engineer his code.
His product is the algorithm, which is already done.
>Aviato
>>68775256
severance package.
>>68775256
I really hate Bighead and his pointless storyline. He just seems to exist to fill 4 minutes of plot every episode
>>68775313
I got it, but why so much?
>>68775303
how the fuck do they get their 'T's so soft.
Avia'o
>>68775256
Because in the end, Bighead is the winner in all of this.And my personal hero
>>68775342
because he had a high position in the company.
>>68775342
non-disclosure clause to shut him up about the patsying they did, even though he clearly is none the wiser.
>>68773063
I do like that Richard has character flaws despite being this coding genius, but I think they take his autism over the top at times. That scene after he won the Hooli trial was cringey as fuck.
I get that Hooli is supposed to be a hyperbolic satire of what Silicon Valley really is, but Gavin pisses me the fuck off. No CEO would keep his job if half of their employee contracts were invalid because it violated their employee's rights. And then they act like firing half of their staff will only benefit the company without any repercussions whatsoever.
>>68771867
>Why is he such an idiot ?
Because that's the show. Every episode they can be successful and they end up fucking up in the most retarded ways.
Every episode is this.
I thought the magazine had Baghead on the cover and the joke was that they couldn't even get his nickname right
>>68775342
He had one of the most important positions in Hooli. That's what's funny about Baghead. He keeps falling backwards into success without lifting a finger.
>i'm sorry, did you say 20?
I forgot how much I miss this shit, how is it that someone with such a little role in the main plot could be such a good part of the show?
>>68771867
>Why is he such an idiot ?
look at you, look at how idiotic you are thinking he has some "superpower" and shit because he made the code. it is not hard to believe he was an idiot as yourself.
>>68775445
irl silicon valley has mass layoffs all the time and the stock value gain was a funny twist. no need to be a wet blanket. let it be funny.
>>68775603
yeah Bighead is fucking hilarious especially considering I thought he would disappear after the second episode of season 1
>>68775344
they really elongate the a before it
Avia(h)to
>>68775357
this desu
>>68775563
faggot, it's bighead
>>68774754
i have no problem with this.
>>68775332
He the living embodiment of a tech bubble, its hilarious.
I hope they S.W.O.T. something this season.
>>68775666
>>68775603
what will he do with his winnings?
also, why can't he come back to the original squad
>>68775603
I love the character. The most useless and laziest character in the show and no matter how little he tries all just goes in his favour. Next step would be him hooking up with some supermodel on a whim after accidentally spilling his coke on her or something.
>>68775342
Because Gavin really wanted him gone.
>>68775768
FUCK.. this was good
>>68775770
>NDA
>non compete clause
>he's incompetent
>>68775768
"Opportunities. FUCK BLAINE'S MOM?!"
>>68775445
He fired the bottom performing 20% of the 50% of employees who had invalid contracts.
Best joke so far imo
>>68775912
if you're a pleb and need gawker to tell you it is, I guess.
>>68775912
dude cocks lmao xD
>>68775751
if they keep up the jokes and the funny characters than I guess I am too
>>68775768
that was one of the best episodes desu
>>68775770he does
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCI0-bcRDua/
>>68775768
Strengths: Blaine's last moment is realizing face is gone.
>>68775912
No.
This is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBPhp5a3EnM
i hope bighead puts the 20 mil into his Nip Alert app
>>68775768
>Weakness: Blaine's blood has AIDS and gets on kids
>>68775912
>call that D2F
everytime
>>68775969
hey martin sup?
>>68775969
Why is Thomas so cute, bros?
i got really fuckin thirsty any time I saw this, and i'm not even murican, how is the branding so good?
>>68775868
Still that's a lot of people and even the poorly performing ones were surely doing at least something productive or meaningful. You can't fire 20% of your workforce and act like it'll do nothing but make the company more money without any negative effect.
>>68775969
L I T
I
T
Who is Bighead meant to be parodying?
>>68775912
I hate this character, he just seems like your standard r/atheism poster
>>68776010
>kill your mother
>rape your father
WUT?!
Baghead is a shitty character but we all love him because he represents the internet's version of the american dream. He's getting paid a shit ton of money to do essentially nothing and everyone thinks he's some brilliant prodigy.
>>68776163
Pretty sure that's the point.
It's a satire.
>>68776164
Haven't you seen the show?
>>68776149
daffy duck is the first person that comes to my mind, but there's probably a huge inside joke here we're missing out on...
>>68775256
They pushed him as a genius in season 2. They are giving him the money, so he doesn't talk and reveal he is actually retarded.
>>68776115
BRUH IT'S A FUCKING WORK OF FICTION EVERYTHING IS EXAGGERATED DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT HOOLI COULD BE CONTINUALLY FUCKING UP AND STILL BE IN OPERATION!?
>>68776149
I think he just personifies tech hype in general
>>68776069
really? this guy?
>>68776188
>Haven't you seen the show?
cool your autism breh
>>68775445
>ut Gavin pisses me the fuck off. No CEO would keep his job if half of their employee contracts were invalid because it violated their employee's rights.
hej, you should really look into Silicon Valley.
And the layoffs earned the company more money because they kept their stock.
Bighead's dismissal was funny.
>You can't ever talk about what happened here, in perpetuity, throughout the universe.
Perfectly legal.
>>68776010
Kek, I forgot about this. Erlich is fucking awesome.
>>68775933
You must be the one visiting those websites to know that much, fagget
>>68776275
You seem like a massive faggot
>>68776010
>that slap
kek erlich gives no fucks
>>68776275
What?
>>68776258
rude
>>68775768
>strengths
>blake is no longer alive
my fucking sides
>>68776163
He's a LaVeyan Satanist
>>68775955
is it ironic to be missing the context/joke completely and making an ironic post,
or are you b8ing lol
>>68776299
or I know because some faggot like you posted it here on 4chan.
>>68775768
>after this nothing is ever as much fun again
>>68776275
>guaranteed replies
Baghead is a brilliant supporting character.
>implying you wouldn't want to rest and vest
>>68776456
thanks
>that scene where they were saying "aviato" repeatedly
Lost my shit honestly
>>68776650
i cringed
> on youtube and we get flamed in the comments
This fucking show
>>68776432
>S-Someone told me
Sure, that must be it, fucking cunt.
>>68776650
"Some of the best tech companies started in garages: Apple, Microsoft,...even Aviato"
>>68772121
hire a team to reverse engineer it.
>>68774656
>Also, Richard's lawyer is based as fuck.
>Trust me Richard, swallow your pride. You'll find there's worse things you can eat than shit. Believe me.
honestly felt bad for him
I like the new CEO
>>68776777
good defense.
How the hell is it that Dinesh and Gilfoyle not know that they only knew the same section of the code though? And that Richard's part which they said is 10% is completely incomprehensible to them both? It's code, anyone can read it right?
I thought that's why proprietary code is protected so heavily, because it's so easy to read and use.
>>68774754
OR
>The Gang *accidently* quit from pied piper
>CEO shows his true side and becomes the new villian
>Rivega hire the fired hooli staff into new pied piper
>Baghead funds the new company for the boys
>New Company vs Pied Piper
>Gavin mid-season fucks up the New Company like the guys that copied Richard code
>>68775768
>Opportunities: Grief threesome with Gina and Blaine's hot mom
>>68776938
becauseit's a sitcom and they need plot to move the story forward
>>68776928
You're the one that needs defending, or you know, ask gawker for help, faggot since you know them so well.
Oh no i forgot, you only know because "someone posts about it not me, durr!"
Shithead.
>>68777074
ouch, you got me again. IT's as if people never post gawker stuff here and I outted myself. Please give me more daddy.
This show is starting to turn into the nerd version of Entourage. Every episode there's some big conflict that endangers the entire company and everyone's job, but it eventually just fades away and everything always works out for the best.
>>68775768
Mighty god, this was funny
I love the
> guilt (dinesh only)
You can even hear the discussion who lead to this.
>>68776938
the opposite is true: devs go out of their way to obfuscate proprietary code so it can't be figured out easily.
open source code is easy to read and use and is usually annotated. Richard has his own logic and probably didn't annotate shit because he didn't think anyone else was going to see his code.
fun Easter Egg: That section of code actually does something. copy/paste it from somewhere, save it to a txt file, change the extension to ".cs", then run it in a terminal
>>68777137
>I only pretend to be retarded
Stop typing already
>>68777146
>show is starting to turn into
>describes what has been happening since pretty much the first episode
>>68776938
Richard invented a completely new algorithm that only he understands, they could probably grasp it but it would take more time
>>68776967
seems possible as well
>>68776864
this show has so many good supporting characters
the lawyer, the chinese guy, Jared, the head of Rivega in first season
>>68771867
>Muh Company!
He is a terrible CEO. He basically ruined chance after chance in season 2.
He wants to become a celeb tech CEO like Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs and like in show Gavin Belson.
He is fortunate he is staying on as CTO with his board seat and shares.
>>68777266
you first. Personally, I like the abuse.
>>68777307
Congrats, Mr. Retard.
You finally managed to understand the point of his plot.
>>68777307
if he wanted to become a hip celeb CEO he would've worked for Homicide or Flutterbeam. The reason he wants to stay CEO is because of integrity.
>ywn minimise Flutterbeam's 'stache lag.
>>68777298
>Richard invented a completely new algorithm that only he understands
I still don't get it, he wrote something, and only he understands how to read it? They looked completely baffled at what they were seeing, and looked like they were seeing it for the first time but they all must have seen the same thing hundreds of time right? They all had access.
Then these two were fools for thinking they could do it themselves even if they still had the code.
>>68777421
>he would've worked for Homicide or Flutterbeam
They were offering him CTO too.
>>68777254
KEK
good one
the writers and directors stated in the interview that pied piper is not able to work in the way it works in the show according to the current technological advance, cool easter egg.
>>68777435
>and looked like they were seeing it for the first time
they probably were. I doubt they've read every line of code before, they just worked on the parts they worked on.
>>68777398
I'm explaining his plot; not having a breakthrough with his character
>>68777421
He was hired to do the stream for Homicide but fucked it up and would be CTO at Flutterbeam (same position with Pied Piper after getting fired as CEO but with a board seat and more shares)
>>68777298
>the head of Rivega in first season
Yeah Peter Gregory was a good character. I can't stand the new bitch though. Reviga might as well have given her job to an actual robot.
>>68777435
I don't know how much you know about programming, but they probably just included his libraries when they needed it, also
>searching logic in a light sitcom
>>68777435
>They looked completely baffled at what they were seeing
dream on assholes
>>68777548
>I can't stand the new bitch though.
thats why we have Aviato Jack
>>68777435
everyone uses/has access to Jquery. care to explain how it works? }:^)
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.2/jquery.min.js
>>68775332
i read they didnt even have a character for him when they were making the show but they decided to write him in after he auditioned
Does anyone else miss Carla? I though she was funny, even if her inclusion was a direct response to "sexist" outcry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obagb7RQeYo
Plus she was scrumptious.
This show is hilarious and who cares if it's not believable? Neither are any shows.
Of course there are going to be things that don't make sense and exaggerated personalities. If you don't want that then watch reality TV.
>>68775332
Eh, he's fun.
>>68777696
it would be nice to have more variety but the show is pretty stuffed with plot as it is. I appreciate its focus on Richard/the company. That's where the stakes are.
10 episodes is never enough, though. This shit needs 13-15.
>>68775332
It's really not pointless. You'd be shocked at how many Bigheads there are in positions of executive power across all sectors of the economy, but especially in bubbling ones like Tech and Finance
>>68775768
Holy fuck those are gold.
>>68777776
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO FAILED SEXTUPLETS
gonna kill myself now brb
>>68777777
>>68777696
I liked her a lot too, way more than Bighead or Aviato-meme man
>>68777655
Yea, it's a javascript library that gets added through html with premade methods to modify websites(also it's easily extensible)
The point the guy is making is, the code is there, if you're a programmer, you can read the code or de-obsfuctuate it and make it readable.
I think what Richard made was so fucking next level that anyone that is a programmer has no idea what the fuck is going on.
>>68777899
It's possible. Google "Carmack sqrt".
>>68777798
I get it, but its really not funny to see him do the "duuuh...ok.." odd man out routine anymore
>>68777854
>Bighead
I don't know why anyone likes Bighead. He's good for maybe one scene of mild amusement, but he's completely useless as a character or a story. He was plot relevant to the story like, one time.
>BUT THAT'S THE JOKE
Yeah, and it was funny once. They need to find something for him to do.
>>68777899
and the point I'm making with jquery is that would take a lot of time to reverse engineer, especially if it's as confusing as minified jquery.
>>68777952
I already know what you're talking about
>fun fact: carmack didn't write it, no one knows who wrote it, but it came from ID
>>68777993
minified? It just removes all the bullshit to reduce waste characters so the server has to transfer less bytes to save on bandwidth. Any IDE can reverse that, instantly.
You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
>>68777899
I don't know shit about code. But I thought it more showed the difference between Richard and Gilfoy/Danesh. And that the latter two might not be as good coders as earlier implied, but only looked good because of Richard being a genius.
>>68776071
gulp is the perfect word for a beverage
>>68778042
wowe, you know what minified means. amazing.
congrats on missing the point though. we're not talking about js, we're talking cs.
>>68778089
Danesh specializes in Java for the front end of their apps, which is good because it runs on EVERYTHING, he's the front end dude.
Gilfoy is the backend man, he's mostly hardware and some software.
Richard is some savant genius that works in C, so they have literally no idea what the fuck is going on.
>>68778128
you missed my original point and brought up some dumbass frontend languages a middleschooler could master.
Good job idiot
>>68778231
>hurrr durrr I know better languages
wow you don't sound like an edgelord at all.
we're talking obfuscated code, not who can piss the highest, douchebag.
>>68778128
How's the wordpress coding going? You showing those indians what's up?
>>68778231
your point is you're taking the schematics of the show too seriously. lighten the fuck up. It's a comedy.
>>68778264
The code they showed as richards in the show basically compiles to 'nice try idiots'.
which means Richard never gave the company his original code.
>>68775768
We should have more dinesh/gilfoyle scenes in general
>>68778184
Ah, see that makes sense to me.
But that just makes me wonder what the fuck they were thinking leaving.
>>68778357
>he thinks the easter egg is meant to be the literal code Richard wrote.
it's garbage code that's a stand in for real code
Pied Piper isn't real... y'know?
Sometimes I think it's crazy how uncanny this show is to the tech industry.
A lot of people fail upwards and a lot of people backstab each other to get ahead. Failing upwards is pretty big thing too.
>>68777952
>Carmack sqrt
its not that complicated actually the wiki explains it very good
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
>>68778429
Or maybe it's an easter egg for people smart enough to compile the code to get details on the next episode?
>>68778380
They should do a spin-off that takes place in the "in-between moments" of the show, and that's 100% Danesh & Gilfoy banter.
>>68778511
RIGBY
>>68775770
Spend more time with hooker's son.
>>68778511
or just longer episodes. it must be one of HBO's most popular shows. how can they not want to make more episodes.
anyone kind of tired of this show now?
>>68778631
Fuck no.
>watching Game of Thrones is a chore
>the SV episode flies by
>>68778574
I don't think HBO has any real hits other than GoT. It does well but not enough to spend more money on it
>>68778574
It seems to be based on the air time of GoT. So afaik, they might want to keep surfing that wave for guaranteed views. And less episodes means less shitty filler. So that's nice.
>>68774825
lol this is a joke in the show. his knickname is bighead, but gavin wrongly calls him baghead (and writes it in power point)
>>68778685
SV and Veep.
>>68778631
Absolutely not. It's pretty much the only comedy where I really care about the plot and the all the characters. And it's the only show that gives the tech industry shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps
>>68777548
I liked the "Monica, Peter Gregory is dead." scene
>>68777548
>Yeah Peter Gregory was a good character.
He was meant to be the boss, the actor died in real life. I like the new woman though. She was great in the smoking episode.
>>68776163
Tell us more about this "r/atheism".
>>68778458
failing upwards? like they're rising to power and fail?
>>68776163
i'm not a big fan either. the only part he's funny in is when he's getting pissed at that asian guy for not understanding what he's saying.
>>68779670
>we're making the world a better place, through Paxos Algorithms for Consensus Protocols
honestly they could do that same inane tech gibberish bit every ep and I'd still love it
>>68771867
there are two answers to the question.
a) he has the emotional maturity of a 12 year old. His pride is fuckin with him. He should know he can't manage a company, but he throws a tantrum anyway. His childish emotions leave him preferring to see everything he developed burn rather than admit he isn't the ubermensch.
b) the writers needed to squeeze drama out of something to draw out the plot. Oh well. The show is still good and has the necessary weekly allowance of tech jargon to make us feel like we are in on something smart (which is not to say that we aren't)
didn't watch the episode, but the through line of the show will kill it. it's literally not important. we don't give a fuck. stop writing the show into the mud and just have episodes.
>>68781076
>His childish emotions leave him preferring to see everything he developed burn rather than admit he isn't the ubermensch.
Reminds me of what recently happened where some guy pulled his library and broke a bunch of sites across the web. All because he wanted to name his new project the same name as something else that was already copyrighted.
>>68775768
>Masturbating on Blaine's grave
>Banging Blindfolded Gina on Blaine's grave
>Digging up Blaine's grave
