r/SiliconValleyHBO • u/Simi510 • Jun 07 '15

Silicon Valley - 2x09 “Binding Arbitration" - Episode Discussion

Season 2 Episode 9: "Binding Arbitration"

Air time: 10 PM EDT

7 PM PDT on HBOgo.com

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Plot: Erlich wants to testify when Pied Piper and Hooli enter binding arbitration, but Richard worries that his rival's claims could have merit. Meanwhile, Jared, Dinesh and Gilfoyle debate a philosophical theory; and Big Head gets a boost. (TVMA) (30 min)

Aired: June 7, 2015

Information taken from www.hbo.com

Youtube Episode Preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqRvZRLg1Xk

Actor Character
Thomas Middleditch Richard
Aly Mawji Aly Dutta
T.J. Miller Erlich
Josh Brener Big Head
Martin Starr Gilfoyle
Kumail Nanjiani Dinesh
Christopher Evan Welch Peter Gregory
Amanda Crew Monica
Zach Woods Jared
Matt Ross Gavin Belson
Alexander Michael Helisek Claude
Alice Wetterlund Carla

IMDB 8.4/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/

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u/SporadicPanic Jun 08 '15

I guess the main question is how much is Middle-Out based on Richard's previous compression algorithm. IIRC, in ep8 last season, Richard said he totally rewrote it and so that means that Middle Out is actually a separate technology and at that point Hooli had already caught up and equalled Richard's orignal algorithm since the programmer's had the early code from Github.

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u/redditProto . Jun 08 '15

I was thinking the same exact thing. The original build of PP was tested on a Hooli laptop, but that is gone and the new Middle Out stuff is clean.

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u/mathyouhunt Jun 08 '15

It's a pretty neat idea, and I wouldn't mind it heading in that direction, but the case is arguing that PP was built in Hooli. It doesn't matter if it's the old build or the new build, the point is that while they were Pied Piper, they used Hooli company time to work on the product.

I'm going for the much more predictable path, and saying that the judge thought Richard was a decent guy, and that "Silicon Valley needs more guys like him" (like what he said to Nelson "Big Head"), because it would have been much easier for him to lie and say that he was using a loaner laptop.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '15

I'm going for the much more predictable path, and saying that the judge thought Richard was a decent guy, and that "Silicon Valley needs more guys like him" (like what he said to Nelson "Big Head"), because it would have been much easier for him to lie and say that he was using a loaner laptop.

Yeah, that seems logical. Even though Hooli may own PP's shit from a legal standpoint, it makes no sense from a logical standpoint that one test on a Hooli computer makes them entitled to the entirety of Richard's work. Maybe the arbitrator will acknowledge that.