It's definitely gotten me to laugh a few times. Check out this scene, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-OQhot_ml0 and if you like it, you'll like the show. If not then it's probably not for you. Also Silicon Valley has got by far the most accurate technical jargon of any show I've ever seen. Now it's not perfect, but I'm glad to see a show about developers that doesn't have random text scrolling down screens and bullshit 'hacking' going on while EDM plays in the background.
My biggest complaint with the show is that it still presents all software developers as socially awkward imbeciles who can't talk to a girl or stand up for themselves. But there is some truth in that statement.
> "My biggest complaint with the show is that it still presents all software developers as socially awkward imbeciles who can't talk to a girl or stand up for themselves."
They do have the `bullies` at their office who are also engineers and definitely fit the `cool kid` stereotype. I think they purposefully want to position the protagonists as being walked on and socially inept even within a group already considered to be socially inept by the general public.
"You want me on that firewall. You need me on that firewall. Son, we live in a world with networks and those networks are guarded by people with packet filters."
My biggest complaint with the show is that it still presents all software developers as socially awkward imbeciles who can't talk to a girl or stand up for themselves. But there is some truth in that statement.