I’m thinking of watching ‘Halt and Catch Fire’, but I’m also taking a hardware & OS course right now, and I was worried that it might teach me some wrong stuff. I might wait till after the final to watch it.
Mr robot for sure. Nobody haha the mainframe by fisting a keyboard. I don’t think I caught one inaccurate thing.
It’s also fairly accurate to the lived experience of having DID
DID?
Yes. Dissociative identity disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder. Mr. Robot is not just about computers and capitalism. It’s also about trauma and mental health.
Thanks. Yea I have seen Mr Robot, just couldn’t recall his particular condition.
I can’t even imagine what that’s like to live with.
I live with it. It’s horrible before you figure out what’s wrong. It’s a lot better once you get a shit ton of therapy and you make nice with all the personalities and realize that you’re also one of them.
I came also here to write Mr Robot.
me three
i think that’s why the show gives me so much anxiety; it’s too believable
Silicon Valley. Yes a lot of stuff is exaggerated for comedic effect, but not nearly as much as an outsider would think.
Silicon Valley was too accurate for comfort lol. I was working on my degree in Computer Engineering in San Jose, CA when I watched it. I moved to Wisconsin immediately after graduating
Lmao, SJSU alumni checking in. Did you have as much trouble filing the graduation paperwork as I did?
Lol that’s not the school I went to so I can’t relate
Oh, lucky you. I assumed because it’s a pretty popular one in the area. Which one did you go to (if that’s not too personal of a question)?
Mr. Robot for its hacking scenes. A bit dramatized but much better than the infamous CSI hacking screen.
They may be dramatised but the Linux stuff he does by typing commands into the terminal is real.
“have you tried turning it off and on again”
already used the line once today and it’s only 10am.
(yes. of course. it worked)
The IT Crowd?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Better Off Ted was always just a little too close to being an accurate portrayal of corporate life. Still one of my all-time favorite sitcoms.
I doubt you really need to worry about Halt and Catch Fire hurting your education. It’s a narrative show taking place in tech, not a step by step guide to building a bad OS.
Doctors watch Grey’s Anatomy, Cops watch Brooklyn 99, Chefs watch The Bear. I can’t imagine anything you take away from a show will outweigh the reality of you being in the domain day to day. The problem really only applies to careers you aren’t involved in.
That said, I’m in tech and Silicon Valley gets a lot of fun things right (while also being absurd and hyperbolic like any TV show)
Doctors watch Grey’s Anatomy for the fantasy, not because it’s good medicine. Long, long ago when I paid attention, it was the general consensus that Grey’s had a lousy grasp on medical reality. Remember the ghost sex arc? However, the show that I watched that doctors said was surprisingly accurate is Scrubs, a sitcom.
Scrubs completely captured what it feels like to work in healthcare. It’s the only medical TV show that I not only managed to finish but actually rewatch often.
Fair enough! I’m enjoying learning about the hardware stuff, so I was excited to watch HCS. I guess it’s a hard course, which is where the mild worry came from 😄 I’ll get started on watching it!
I loved Silicon Valley, and I might give it a rewatch sometime to catch all the jokes I didn’t quite understand
In Halt and Catch Fire one of the main characters uses the term “killer app” which I’m not sure is period correct for the early eighties. Always bugged the crap out of me.
It was coined in the late 80s, but as far as “affronts to tech” that is a very minor offence compared to what shows normally pull
Contagion was very accurate for pandemics IMO. They got a lot right.
Parks & Recreation hits too close to home on dealing with the public.
Halt and Catch Fire doesn’t get into the nitty gritty enough to spoil whatever you’re studying. It’s a really entertaining look at that time period though. If you’re gonna wait till after the final, wait because you really don’t need this distraction.
Scrubs is well known to be the only really accurate depiction of American hospitals. Mostly because it’s the only show where nurses even exist.
Don’t be ridiculous
