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Hack Hacking
There are multiple definitions:
1) The process of hacking a hack - the good
2) The process of hacking off a hacker or hack (loser) - the bad
3) The process of hacking a hacker - the ugly
Depending on how you use this term you're either doing something:
1) Good - hacks are usually good, but if you're hacking a hack, it means you're trying to improve it
2) Bad - killing people is never a good thing, no matter if they're a good hacker, bad backer, or hack of a human being
3) Ugly - improving people is always a good endeavour, but it can get ugly because the hacker may already be the good kind of hacker. But even still, improving another human being is always a very subjectively ugly thing to do.
Person A - man what a world, we've got hacking, growth hacking, life hacking, travel hacking, productivity hacking, what's next?
Person B - Hack Hacking!
Person A - Is this anything similar to Smart Smart or Techtech?
Person B - No don't worry, but I have to ask, which demo would you prefer? The Good, the Bad, or the Ugly version?
Person A - Um, the Good of course!
Person B - Man, you're no fun! "begrudgingly hides the axe he had behind his back into his backpack and brings out an algorithm that improves on a previously innovative algorithm that calculates how fast a human being can jerk off 4 dudes at once"
tosfan4ever almost 9 years agoSilicon Valley
Silicon Valley - The place where hundreds of thousands of people work twice as hard and spend twice as much to live as anywhere else from believing the lie that it will make them fabulously wealthy that is fed to them by the hundreds of people that they are making fabulously wealthy.
I live in Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the future.... and who are you?
I left Colorado to get rich in Silicon Valley, but now I can't drive for Uber anymore because I can't afford to fix my car....
freemium over 8 years agoGarage
Made famous by Steve Job's and Steve Wozniak's founding of Apple in a modest garage in Los Altos. Now a term used by startup founders to appear frugal to investors or to express "started from the bottom now we here" sentiments
"We are a billionaire dollar company now but do you remember those days when we worked out of a garage?"
zazpowered over 8 years agoTeacher Branding
The process of leveraging technology through national media placement, book publishing and coaching to help educators position themselves as celebrity level experts in their subject matter
Chad T. Collins is an edupreneur and advocate for the success of educators through the process of Teacher Branding.
tallenhanes over 8 years agoAuthority positioning
Authority positioning enables a person or a company to be perceived as the go-to expert in their industry.
Also called authority branding.
Ida Giroday is an international authority positioning consultant and success coach for women entrepreneurs. She helps her clients become the leader in their field and fast-track their success.
Zaza G over 8 years agoProtective Social Incompetence
When you purposely take steps to make yourself look and act nerdier than you actually are to prevent having conversations with people or to prevent yourself from distraction from members of the opposite sex. This is done to deflate one's personality to the stereotype of the typical Hollywood engineer for whatever purpose they see fit.
Brian: Ever since they moved the mobile dev team in the biz dev building we've been surrounded by beautiful girls. It's so distracting. Joe: I'm going to wear oversized career fair swag and metal rimmed glasses to nerd overcompensate. That way they'll be repulsed by me. Brian: Perfect, if we nerd overcompensate and act like complete stereotypes they won't even look at us and I'll be able to focus on pushing this new log in.
GoogleEngineer over 8 years agoKale
Sometimes called "the world's healthiest food." It has become a staple for many Bay Area residents who pride themselves on living a healthy lifestyle.
It also has become a stereotypical food group subjected to highly pretentious techies and food snobs who flaunt their supposed physical and mental superiority over people.
Jack: Why do you eat so much Kale. Ryan: Because I want everyone to know how healthy I am. Maybe Sabrina will notice me and ask me about my clean code and my clean eating habits. Jack: Or you can go talk to her.... Ryan: No, she has to make the first move or else I'll appear to desperate. Jack: But you are desperate...that's why you're eating so much kale.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoDev Bootcamping
Learning to be a dev in a small amount of time normally through a paid educational program
Julia went to business school but decided she wanted to learn to be a coder instead. She dev bootcamped for few months and now is kicking ass at a startup.
GoogleEngineer over 8 years agoBoonies
Anywhere outside Uber's or Lyft's discounted ride share areas.
Example 1
Example 2
Friend 1: Where do you live?
Friend 2: Inner Sunset...the boonies.
Coworker: I just moved to the city and need to look for a place to rent. Where should I look?
Coworker 2: You should totally look in SOMA or the mission... you don't want to get stuck in the boonies.
canterburry over 8 years agoSilicon Prarie
A coin termed in the late 90s to reference the tech booms impact on the telecom industry found in Chicago's Western Suburbs. This disappeared after the first tech bubble burst.
Recently this term has been repurposed to describe the new tech startup scene coupled with suburban tech companies moving to Chicago's downtown in the 2010's.
Rahm: California has Silicon Valley, here in Chicago we are building the Silicon Prairie.
Ismael over 8 years agoBurn Rate
Burn rate is the rate at which companies spend.
Alot of startups have absurdly high burn rates which is the antithesis of why investors generally invest in software companies in the first place.
High burn rates for a company less than 20 months old is an easy sign of telling whether startup founders are retarded and only made it that far by being likable and well connected. Most of the time high burn rates aren't warranted and it's an easy sign of telling that a group has no fucking clue what they're doing.
A bunch of my Stanford classmates graduated and raised money from their prototype. I could tell they're burn rate was high even after raising so much money. Any idiot could see their traction didn't warrant the spending. They closed after a year and are now working on new startups. I pity the early investors who will sink their teeth into the next batch of hot bullshit they oven roast and serve in their next venture.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoThe Stanford Marching Band
Genuinely the weirdest and most outgoing students at Stanford whose performance includes not only playing music, but also being incredibly random in the ways they dress and perform.
My dad saw the Stanford Marching Band at the airport and all of them were wearing multi-color onesies. At first he thought they were retarded, but then realized they were students attending one of the most highly rated universities in the world after asking one of them if they needed help.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoPost-LinkedIn Instacrushing
Being attracted to someone only after seeing their LinkedIn.
Jake: Did you know that Julia is employed at Square and got a 2300 SAT score when she was in High School? I'm in love with her.
George: Shut up Jake. You're so shallow, your just Post-LinkedIn Instacrushing on her.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years ago
Quora
Quora is a overhyped startup unicorn that is jealous of Reddit's +500 million monthly visitors and was founded by a former Facebook employee. On Quora where you can ask questions about how to get rich, how to pitch investors and gossip about famous companies like Google, Apple and Facebook. Oh, and also stalk Jimmy Wales and Adrian Lamo.
Now seriously: A Q&A website where you can ask questions about anything and have article-length answers written by Top Writers or Ph.D.s who spend nearly 2 hours writing superb answers full of images, graphics and details that are above your comprehension and that later will probably be posted to Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Forbes, BBC, The New York Times, Slate, Buzzfeed, Huffington and Washington Post or any other popular news-media website.
Now seriously, seriously: A Question and Answer website where you can ask and answer questions about any topic and interact with highly intelligent people from all over the world and get happy when your content is sent on their daily email called "Quora Digest" to over a million people.
Tired of that shit, now for real: Quora is the best place on the internet to find the best answer for your questions. (It'd certainly be if it had more users).
Lisa: Hey, Jon, today I got over 200,000 views on my answers on Quora!
Jon: Quora? What's Quora?
Lisa: Quora is a website similar to Yahoo Answers where you can ask and answer a lot of interesting stuff!
Jon: Oh, cool.
Jon: Well, being relevant to that number of people on Twitter or Facebook is a different story, isn't it?
Sau010 over 8 years ago
Relevance Companies
The startups in one's incubators that are responsible for their relevance.
AirBnB and Dropbox are Y Combinator's relevance companies. Without them people would care about the incubator to a much less degree and they would not be as successful as they are.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoThis Guy Fucks
Made popular by Russ Hanneman on the Silicon Valley show. It is just something to say when you want to mess with somebody. Meaningless. Could also mean this guy has a lot of sex but its impossible to tell.
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zazpowered almost 9 years agoBeast Mode
Partially derived from the sports world (Marshawn Lynch going beast mode in the NFL). It is when you are super busy and have deadlines. You put on earplugs/headphones and drink caffeine in an attempt to knock out work/coding.
Did you see Rohan? He went beast mode on that compiler program today and finished it on time.
Man! Andrew went beastmode on my escalated technical cases today. Awesome!
famartinez over 8 years agoThe 4 Immortal Industries
Food, medicine, sex, and advertising.
Mr. Javed taught us in class about the 4 immortal industries and that how from now until the end of time, as long as human civilization endures, these industries will exist and thrive.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoPremium Price
When searching for domains this is the biggest "fuck you" you can encounter. It translates to costs more than 25,000 dollars.
"This is a .CO Premium Domain Name that is available for registration at a premium price."
yungsnuggie over 8 years ago
nice one