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理奇
Richie!
-好准时 -您是我要找的律师吗
- Right on time. - Hey. You're the lawyer?
我叫罗恩·拉弗兰梅 很高兴认识你
Ron LaFlamme. Great to meet you.
好了伙计 随便坐
All right, homeboy. Pop a squat.
在贴着标签的地方签字吧
Start autographing by the flags.
要签的文件可不少
Lot of paper to get through.
你觉得怎么样
So, what do you think?
什么怎么样
About?
珍妮 她很性感 对吧
Jeannie. She's pretty hot, right?
是 她很漂亮
Oh. Yeah. No, she's... she's very pretty.
当然
Yeah, she is.
还要击拳吗 好吧
Oh, we're doing that. OK.
彼得告诉我 你是第一次接触这些
So yo, Peter tells me you're popping your cherry with this.
那我给你说明下
So let me just walk you through it.
你现在签的这份文件
That stuff you're signing gives you
是注资兑现票♥据♥
the convertible note for funding
表明你和彼得·格里高利
and establishes you and Peter Gregory
同为'魔笛手'公♥司♥的董事会成员
as the board members of Pied Piper,
公♥司♥注册地为特拉华州
incorporated in the state of Delaware.
好吧 为什么是特拉华州
OK. Why Delaware?
你有钱 我也有 我是律师 而你不是
Rich, Rich. Lawyer, not lawyer.
听我的
I got you.
彼得·格里高利可是你的铁杆粉丝
So, Peter Gregory, big fan of you.
他邀请你参加他的古罗马长袍派对了吧
He invited you to his toga party, right?
这次盛况空前
That's a big deal.
佛罗·里达[饶舌歌♥手]会去表演
Flo Rida's playing.
-你喜欢佛罗·里达吗 -应该挺好玩
- You like Flo Rida? - Should be fun.
-我去过挺多派对... -看这把吉他
- Yeah, I went to a lot Silicon Valley... - See this guitar?
有谷歌♥创始人谢尔盖和拉里的签名
Sergey and Larry from Google signed it.
两人都签了 在这儿
Both of them. Right there.
'魔笛手'
So, Pied Piper.
彼得也给你们这压缩算法投资了啊
You're one of Peter's compression plays, huh?
"也给" 他投资了多少个
Uhh, one of? How many does he have?
也不多 六个还是八个吧
Not too many. Like six or eight.
好吧 为什么这么多
OK. Why are there so many?
海龟一次要产非常多的卵
You know how sea turtles have a shit-ton of babies
因为绝大部分小海龟还没爬回海里就死了
because most of them die on their way down to the water?
彼得只是想确保
Peter just wants to make sure
花出去的钱能有所回报
that his money makes it to the ocean.
你好像应对得还不错
But it seems like you got your shit together.
很多到这来的人
A lot of these guys come in here
工程上非常在行
and they can do all of the engineering stuff
可他们一心扑在技术上
but they get all hung up on technicalities.
连公♥司♥愿景是什么都说不清楚
They can't just tell you what their vision for the company is.
那些家伙真没用
Those guys are so fucked.
就好比大脑的左右半球 缺一不可
It's like you need both halves of the brain, right?
比如乔布斯和沃兹尼亚克 硬和阳
The Jobs and the Wozniak. The Ying and the Yang.
应该是读作"阴"
Oh. I think it's "Yin".
-"阴" -对
- "Yin"? - Yeah.
-"阴"和"烟" -不 是阴和阳
- Like "Yin and Yan?" - No. Like Yin and Yang.
不 就是"硬和阳" 是反义词
No. It's Ying and Yang, they're opposites.
来说说看 '魔笛手'到底是什么
So, Pied Piper, drop it on me. What is it?
一开始是个音乐应用
Well, we started off as a music app.
-真土 -是挺糟糕
- Yuck. - Yeah. Gross. Ugh.
但我们之后就做了调整
But we've, uh, we've pivoted since then.
调整成什么
Uh-oh. To what?
所有的媒体 音频 视频和元数据
Well, our Weissman scores are consistently high across all media,
我们的压缩评分都很高
audio, video, meta-data.
其实也不是
Actually, that's not true.
3D视频编码方面还需要改进
We've had some trouble encoding 3D video.
我认为应该是像素值变化
I think it's because the pixels change value differently
与传统模式不同...
than conventional...
好好看看这个流程图 哥们
Just look at the flow diagram, dude.
不 滤波器组是预测环的一部分
No, the filter bank is part of the prediction loop.
你在说什么 这可是无损压缩
What are you talking about, this is lossless compression.
大头 那时候你也在场
Oh, hey, Big Head, you were there.
理查德为什么用离散式弦转换滤波器
Why did Richard use a DCT filter bank?
我也不大确定 理查德解释过
Not really sure. Richard tried to explain some of this stuff
但大部分我都没听明白
but a lot of it I didn't really understand,
所以只能点头微笑
so I'd kinda just nod and smile, you know?
那你至少帮我们想想
Can you at least help us
这奇葩的离散傅立叶转换蜘蛛网是什么意思
figure out this insane DFT spider web he's using?
哥们 这些东西你懂哪个
Dude, do you understand any of this?
我吃了鱼
I eat the fish.
我知道你吃了鱼
I understand you eat the fish.
但你清理完鱼之后
But when you clean the fish
不能把鱼头 内脏什么的留在水槽里
you can't leave the fish head and guts and shit in the sink.
会让整间房♥子闻起来像毒饵站
Because the whole house smells like a bait station.
你得把这些丢进垃圾桶
So you gotta put it in the trash
然后把垃圾拿到屋外去
and then take the trash out.
你明白吗
Do you understand?
是的 我吃了鱼
Yes. I eat the fish.
操♥你♥妈♥
Motherfuck!
自己的公♥司♥都说不明白
Do you know how awkward it is
你们知道有多丢人吗
to not be able to describe your own company?
比如我创建了'魔笛手' 你也知道
Like, I built Pied Piper and you could see it
但我没法让你明白它到底是个什么公♥司♥
but I can't really describe to you what it is
即使我大概知道自己在干嘛
even though I kind of know where I'm going.
你知道我们放弃了开♥发♥自己的软件
You do realize we quit working on our own apps
来给你工作 对吧
to work for you, right?
你不该比"大概知道"强点吗
Shouldn't you more than "Kind of know where you're going?"
首席执行官不就是干这个的吗
Because that's basically what the CEO does.
我知道
I do.
基本上吧
Sort of.
这就像并不知道确切地址
OK, it's like trying to tell someone how to get somewhere,
却想告诉别人怎么过去
even though you don't really know the exact address. Right?
你该怎么做呢
Like, how do you do that?
你又不能直接说"去榆树街415号♥"
Because you can't just say "Go to 415 Elm Street,"
因为你也不知道具体地址是什么
because you don't even know what that is. Right?
你只能说 沿着大路一直走
So you have to say, you know, "Go straight down that big road
看到一个诡异的东西就右拐
and take a right at the weird thing."
但你又说不明白诡异的东西是什么
But, you can't describe what that weird thing is
因为你只知道它很诡异
because you just know it as a weird thing, you know,
它一直存在于你的脑海中
in your head. You always have.
你脑袋里诡异的东西不应该是动脉瘤吗
Is that weird thing in your head an aneurysm?
理查德 我来回顾一下
Richard, I'm just gonna recap for a second,
你拒绝了千万巨款
um, you turned down ten million dollars
转而创建一家
to be able to develop something that you,
你身为领导
as the head of the company,
都讲不明白到底是什么的公♥司♥
can't even describe to another human being?
我只是想激励你一下
I say this only to motivate you.
我奉命把你
OK, so I have been instructed to remove you
从参与'纽核力'项目的雇员列表里删除
from the list of employees assigned to the Nucleus project.
你不会再收到任何与'纽核力'相关的邮件
You will no longer receive any Nucleus related communications,
文件报告 或参加任何'纽核力'会议
uh, file reports, or attend any Nucleus meetings.
有什么问题吗
Any questions?
没有 说得很清楚
Uh, no. That's... that's pretty clear.
很好
Great.
我会被分配到其他项目吗
Am I being reassigned to something else?
据我所知不会 暂时不会
Not that I am aware of. At this time. No.
那是说我被解雇了吗
Wait, so then am I being fired?
我签的是三年的合同
Because I have a three year contract
而且我的股票期权...
and my stock options...
没人被解雇 好吗
Nobody is being fired. OK?
合同就是合同
Look, a contract is a contract.
你签了合同
You know. You've got a contract.
我也签了合同 大家都签了合同
And I've got a contract. We all have contracts.
在'互利' 大家都尊重合同
And-and here at Hooli, contracts are honored.
无论是你的 我的
Um... Yours and mine.
还是大家的合同
Everybody's. So, um...