Chalk it up to coincidence feeding Twitter chatter, but even my ears perked up when Hillary Clinton dropped the phrase "middle out" during Wednesday night's presidential debate. Clinton was referring to her economic and job-creation plan, and in contrast to "Trumped-up trickle-down economics," she was saying that her plan would focus on the middle class. "So what I am proposing is that we invest the middle out and the ground up," she said, cuing a chorus of Silicon Valley fans on social media to go "hrm"?

Of course it's unlikely that Hillary would know the reference, but maybe her debate coaches and speech writers did? CNet doesn't presume so, but quips, "You might even say it was a master stroke."

"Middle out" on the TV show referred to Pied Piper's innovative compression technology — abstractly, it's a method compress a large file starting from the middle rather than going from end to end. In Silicon Valley's second season, the breakthrough about this is explained via masturbation, and what they referred to as D2F, or dick-to-floor.

The HBO featurette below discusses how the show's creators and consultants tried to make the concept as realistic as possible based on the trajectory of compression technology, even though in real life there is no such technology yet.

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