If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by dleslie on Monday November 19, 2018 @06:40PM (#18490703)

Hackers is best enjoyed, IMHO, if you interpret it as a hyperbole of the media stereotype of the hacker culture of the era. I tend to revisit it every year and have grown to appreciate it more and more with time.

Also, Sneakers and The Net.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by ethbro on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:18PM (#18491597)

Hackers is my secret joy.

The more you rewatch it, the more you realize it knew exactly how over the top it was being, and is doing so with a wink and grin.

And there are far too many truely geeky Easter eggs in there to say it's oblivious. Technicolor rainbow, indeed.

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by hermitdev on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @03:44AM (#18492574)

I love Hackers. I also love snickering at all of the technical lapses throughout the movie. 28.8 kbaud? Yeah...you're streaming that 3d Gibson interface over that... Yeah, I know, they had to Hollywood it up, but still...

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Re:If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon V... by ryanbrunner on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:38PM (#18496946)

Hackers is, in my opinion, something that was written by someone who was very knowledgable about the subject matter and directed by someone who very clearly was not. Every spoken line of dialogue in that movie is pretty accurate and realistic - it's only when you get to the direction and the visuals that things get wacky.

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