Mr. Robot, The IT Crowd (not engineers but whatever), Silicon Valley, Person of Interest
They all seem to depict developers / hackers / engineers in certain ways. What do you feel about these depictions? And what is your favourite TV Show with respect to this idea?
I enjoy Mr. Robot and Silicon Valley, because they have experts to look over the script and certain scenes to make sure things are done properly.
For instance, in Mr Robot they're meticulous with getting the hackers correct, going so far as using real tools and legitimate techniques.
Silicon Valley on the other hand has some of the best examples of bike-shedding I've ever seen. The Tabs vs. Spaces seen was spot on.
Honestly for me it's a bit like watching movies about aviation when I held a multi-engine jet certification. It's often too painful to watch as there's just too much hollyweird fairy tale BS for me to stomach it. Almost any movie with "modern technology" in it is AGONIZING to watch due to the ridiculous over-dramatization of it, hand drawn animations or goofy PSD jockey bull... it's sad when 1960's parodies like "How to Frame a Figg" are more technologically accurate than the modern fare.
TV it often gets far, FAR worse. As much wood as I get for Pauly Perette and her character Abby on NCIS, every time she and probi go over to the computer? Well, to borrow from Larry the Cable guy "my pecker shrinks in so far it peeks out the pooper."
Probably why one of the few computer related scenes I LIKE in a TV show actually comes from NCIS in an early episode, where they're getting "hacked" and the two supposed IT experts don't know what to do to stop it, and Gibbs goes over and pulls the power plug out of the wall.
THAT was a brilliantly done scene.
Apart from that it's just so much nonsensical gibberish written by people who don't know the first damned thing about technology, I really can't put up with it until it hits the sci-fi realm where you can go "ok, you know what, this is made up technobabble and we freely admit it!"
Jason Knight
The less code you use, the less there is to break
Mike Chilson
Full Stack Developer
It doesn't bother me at all. There are way more importation things to worry about in my opinion than entertainment. That said, love me some Silicon Valley. :-)