![]() Verisimilitude is really what matters here, and they pull it all off to an absolute T. Sure, fake Google comes a little early in the timeline, and Mutiny doesn't exactly map to anything that's familiar to me, but it all feels like it could have happened. There's even a reference to the Morris worm. For instance, Cardiff Electric is basically fake Compaq, Comet is basically fake Yahoo!, and Rover is like fake Google. Most of the things in the show are things that actually happened in real life, just with the serial numbers filed off. I found it fairly believable, if not completely accurate, in both aspects. There are brief flashes of assembler, basic, and C on a computer screen and most of it seems to be at least slightly incorrect.Īll of that being said, I would give it a B+ for technical accuracy - and an A for being an awesome show. They don't actually say if they're using some custom OS or how the accomplished that, but that also isn't the point of those episodes either.Ĥ. Later on in the series, some of the characters run an online game company and run a distributed game server on networked IBM XTs. ![]() One of the characters writes some firmware in assembler, and other characters keep saying that their code is "beautiful" and "art".ģ. ![]() Even if you were going to do something very manual like that you would want to use a 7-segment LED and driver so you could at least just write down the hex value.Ģ. They use a series of 8 LEDs and convert the binary value to decimal in their head and then write it down on paper. In one of the first episodes, a couple characters design up a circuit to step through the values of an EEPROM to read off the value of each address. Some examples (very low spoilers but you've been warned):ġ. There are some things that are obviously for drama and visual effect though. * - another ironic twist: If the utilization problem was solved, a lot of these companies’ finances would have looked much much better to the point that the bubble burst would not have been nearly as devaststing.įor TV/film, it's probably one of the most accurate that I've seen. If not for the work by some of the guys (including 6 or 7 of my friends) who went from DEC - ironically due to the dot com crash* - AWS or cloud computing would not be a thing. Once Google figured out you can decouple work from hardware, handle hardware failure in software, and drive utilization from pathetic levels (20% at most internet companies over a year) to high 80s for free, the modern internet got a huge shot in the arm. Solaris, DEC and IBM would ring a bell to a lot of the sysadmins from that time. To keep it brief, Google was the first company to figure out server farms of cheap machines were cheaper and - counterintuitively - more reliable, than massive, powerful servers. I do not check this site often and found I could not reply, and there was no email on your profile, so I am replying here: You had replied to a comment of mine asking what I’d meant by “Google figured out hardware didn’t matter on the server” by 2000 and how that changed the internet to make Bill’s vision come true. ― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine. “In a book called Computer Power and Human Reason, a professor of computer science at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum writes of a malady he calls “the compulsion to program.” He describes the afflicted as “bright young men of disheveled appearance, often with sunken, glowing eyes,” who play out “megalomaniacal fantasies of omnipotence” at computer consoles they sit at their machines, he writes, “their arms tensed and waiting to fire their fingers, already poised to strike, at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to be as riveted as a gambler’s on the rolling dice.” Other than this one programmer, I’ve never seen any programmers or product managers or engineers as attractive as in this show. She was doing well as a programmer when the company folded. She was really pretty, prettier than the actors on Halt and Catch Fire, and got a ton of attention from the rest of the programmers who were almost all typical programmers. She was also an ex model from Denmark or Belgium or somewhere. I worked for a startup and we had a programming intern in my shop who was a new mom who wanted to learn programming.
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