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Snapcash

A feature on the popular media sharing app, Snapchat that lets you pay the same friends that you send the pictures you're too embarrassed to post on Facebook with.

James: I'll pay for breakfast, just SnapCash me back.

Lewis: Hell no, I'm jut going to use Venmo.

Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

  • zazpowered zazpowered

    Does anyone use Facebook Messenger's version of this?

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    over 8 years ago
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Zombie Startup

VC funded companies that don't close their doors after funding runs out, but also does not grow significantly. They typically generate enough revenues to continue business, but the VC is unable to divest. As a result, the company tends to shed all of its brainpower and continues to operate as a brainless zombie for many years.

All of the engineering talent has left the company. What's left is a zombie startup that should continue to operate, but nobody's ever going to make money there.

Added by ttitus ttitus over 8 years ago

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Vestigial Code

A code probably once served a purpose, but doesn't anymore. You're afraid of removing it because after years it just looks right the way it is.

In evolutionary biology vestigial organs are the ones an organism probably once used but no longer serve a purpose today.

James: Dude help me debug my new one button app, "Dude."
Zeeshan: What is all this? None of it serves a purpose.
James: It's vestigial code that makes gives me confidence when making something new. I've just built everything on top of my dayspan code from freshman year until now. I commented it out, don't worry.
Zeeshan: You're a terrible human being, you know that?

Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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    Tweetstorm

    When somebody wants to tweet something that is more than 140 characters but is not considerate enough to link to a blog post or use an image. Tweets in a tweetstorm are generally numbered and look like a mini essay in your Twitter feed.

    http://avc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ts-1.jpg

    Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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      Bronation,Brodation

      From the show Silicon Valley. It means to get a donation for your project from a "bro" or "brogrammer." Previously used in non-developer circles to mean to get a loan from a friend in which the receiver has no intention of paying back that loan.

      "Let's get those bronations going."

      Added by augustwest augustwest over 8 years ago

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        LilB

        An artist and cultural icon from Berkeley, California who many regard as "the rawest rapper in the game." To many of his fans he's simply known as The BasedGod and to many's surprise, he's quite plugged into life in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley.

        I went to the free LilB concert on the UC Berkeley campus today. We pretty much spent the night bobbing our head to his mastermind music, while doing the LilB cooking dance. It was fantastic.

        Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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          Imagineer

          A term given to creative people employed at Pixar and Disney. When engineers say that they are imagineers, people tend to figure out they work at Pixar and a part of their soul dies after digesting what they've said.

          Justin: I'm a software engineer at TubeMogul. What do you do?
          Dave: Well I'm glad you asked! I'm an IMAGINEER at Pixar...wait where are you going?

          Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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            Grab Bag Founders

            When a number of people have decided not to be cofounders with you and you are left with all C level players. Basically, scraping the bottom of the barrel.

            John wanted to start a company and needed cofounders but all of his friends decided to work for Google instead so he did a mass email blast and took the first 2 people to reply.

            Added by SingleCommaClub SingleCommaClub over 8 years ago

            • chipchop chipchop

              Wonder where you thought of this from

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            150ft Rule

            A company wide standard at Google that says that not even a single area of the office can be situated at a distance exceeding 150 feet, from sources of food.

            When I work I constantly have food at my desk. It's a delicious life. The main reason I never want to leave Google is the 150ft rule.

            Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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              Facebook Reach

              Facebook reach is the number of people that see posts from Facebook pages. Organic Facebook reach has dropped since Facebook made changes to their feed algorithm to encourage companies to buy ads promoting page posts.

              It's almost pointless for our startup to promote our Facebook page because we will have to pay to get any Facebook reach.

              Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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              App Reskinning

              Releasing a mobile game by using existing source code and gameplay mechanics but changing up the game art to make the game appear new and different.

              Flappy Birds is doing really well on the App Store and I found some code online for creating a Flappy Bird clone. Let's release a similar game called Flappy Fish by reskinning this code.

              Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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                Slacking

                Using a productivity tool called Slack to get work done or communicate with one's team. This can easily be confused to mean "not doing one's work."

                Jack: You've been getting alot done.

                James: Yeah man, I've been slacking all day.

                Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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                  Valley Optimistic

                  Refers to the optimism that people in Silicon Valley have for new technology and ideas that people outside of the area might be skeptical of.

                  "You know I'm valley optimistic but I really don't think that tic-tac-toe mobile game you pitched me is going to do all that well"

                  Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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                    OS

                    This just means Operating System. When you hear this just think "Windows" or "Mac OSX"

                    I hate myself so I installed the Windows Vista OS on my brand new laptop.

                    Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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                      The Rift

                      A title given to denote virtual reality. Popularized by people who have spent immense amounts of time in an Oculus Rift headset and were unable to fully communicate the things they had seen and experienced while present in what they consider a different realm.

                      Recruiter: Why should we hire you for our VR division?

                      Jack: Aye. In my time I have seen many things in the Rift. Things the likes of you, could never imagine...

                      Recruiter: Why are you crying?

                      Jack: I held my virtual daughter in my arms as the light vanished from her eyes. I fought dragons in Russia trying to protect the refugees of a city that's now burnt to the ground. I spent almost two years in isolation in the Rift reading about the ancient tombs of Java Script and Lisp. I'm hoping that this position will help me forget about my past. My time in the Rift.

                      Recruiter: Why am I crying...

                      Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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                        Mechatronics

                        TLDR: a multidisciplinary engineering field that combines software, electrical and computer, and mechanical engineering.

                        Sometimes referred as robotics, mechatronics is the most promising discipline in the engineering world. The brightest students are competing to enter this program for it's reputation and employment rate by the top notch companies in the industry(Microsoft, Google, Apple, Tesla etc). University of Waterloo is known as the best university offering this program. Rumor has it that they are the ones came up with this concept and terminology back in the day.

                        Person 1: Dude, I got accepted into Mechatronics Engineering.
                        Person 2: The hell is mechatronics?
                        Person 1: Story short, we're going to build robots!

                        Added by TimStevenson TimStevenson over 8 years ago

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                          Periscope Plug

                          Advertising a product or service using Periscope either through your own live stream or someone elses's.

                          I tuned in to watch to Jack Dorsey's Periscope to watch him interview the founder of Blue Bottle. Little did I know that it wouldn't be conversation on coffee, but instead a giant periscope plug for his other company Square. He just kept asking questions about how Square transactions benefit his business.

                          Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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                            Pistol Ship

                            To ship one's code without checking it. This is normally done out of a combination of hubris and laziness.

                            Jack: I feel like Clint Eastwood, I've been pistol shipping compiled code all day. I love working at Facebook.

                            Lewis: Facebook is down.

                            Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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                              A/B Testing

                              A/B testing is when you test two variants of something A and B to determine which one maximizes the outcome you want. It is commonly used in web design.

                              After doing some A/B testing, Buzzfeed determined that the headline "You'll never believe what happened next" had a 50% higher click through rate than the headline "The cat ran across the lawn" so that's what they used.

                              Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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                                Pokemon Recruiting

                                Giving preference to job candidates based on having unusual non-job-related characteristics - with the goal of collecting one of each kind to your team. Based on the collectible toy with the theme "Gotta Catch 'Em All".

                                Yuliya: Hey look, a resume from a Bulgarian engineer who speaks Urdu and plays the ukelele in her spare time.

                                Andy: Wow, serious Pokemon points there.

                                Added by AndyB AndyB over 8 years ago