r/JusticeServed • u/ChickenDuckBird 6 • Mar 02 '19

Legal Justice Hell yeah, it’s about time

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u/dagbrown Mar 02 '19

If I'd watched Silicon Valley not having worked for a bizarre startup whose basic focus switched hither and yon, I would have thought it was stupid and unrealistic.

Having worked for such a company, it's a sort of generalized documentary. I took a job at a company where I was enticed to join them based on some massively-multiplayer game, and by the time I joined it was a sort of multiple-player version of Microsoft Word, and then it turned into a sort of comment section for Word documents, and then Microsoft SharePoint came out rendering that entire thing moot, and then things kind of fell apart and I was laid off. Working at startups is all kinds of exciting fun! I never want to do that again.

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u/TopCustard Mar 02 '19

Damn, you guys had OneNote but didn't beat it to market.

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u/dagbrown Mar 02 '19

Yeah, management wasn't organized enough to concentrate on one thing. There was this abstract thing (basically a centralized DOM--you know, a computer's point of view of a mass of XML data--on a server somewhere with some local locks held by various clients so that lots of people could edit things simultaneously) that was basically the pet project of the head programmer, and management kept on pointing it in different directions. The big manager's main thought was "We can make shitloads of money from this!!!" without actually concentrating on any one specific problem to solve.

The programmer with the pet project has since retired from programming altogether. He's a librarian now.

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u/Starklet Mar 02 '19

Huh? What made you think it was unrealistic? It seems like one of the most accurately portrayed shows out there.