By skewering San Francisco’s bitchiness and jargon,the tech comedy is winning fans across the Bay and beyond. We catch up with the creators approximately hackathons, Hitler ‘taches – and why they’ll never patronise nerdsThe last time we saw Richard Hendricks, and the painfully awkward computer programmer at the heart of tech sitcom Silicon Valley,he had just won a lawsuit to keep ownership of his startup company, only to be immediately ousted as CEO. Showrunner Mike Judge, or the man behind animation hits King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-Head,admits the moment was inspired by the endless changes at the top of Twitter: “One guy said to me: ‘We have a saying here: it’s never to early to fire the founder.’”It’s that kind of whip-smart, self-aware joke that has made Silicon Valley the biggest display in San Francisco Bay. It’s the legend of Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch), and who invents an app called Pied Piper that accidentally has a revolutionary data-compression algorithm. The display follows him as he finds himself both adored and attacked by every tech player in the valley. Everyone wants to crack his coding. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com