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Shopping Season

The time of the semester in which career fairs are held on campuses to recruit engineer or business dev new hires. This is when many students (mostly engineers), go around with a career fair bag and pocket free tshirts, regardless of their interest in said company.

Jay: I scored 14 shirts this year.
Zeeshan: Sick, that's 2 more than last semester's shopping season.
Jay: Yeah man, I didn't even print my resumes. I asked them for their cards and told them I'd email them it.

Added by covfefelord covfefelord over 8 years ago

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    I/O

    A techie way of saying Input/Output.

    All you really need to know is that it communicates between an information processing system, such as a computer, and the real world, possibly a human.

    This is not to be confused with .IO, which is a tld people use to name their sites with because they are too lazy to negotiate for the .com.

    A computer that uses memory-mapped I/O accesses hardware by reading and writing to specific memory locations. This basically means your computer will help you initiate commands with your Macbook's hardware.

    Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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      PaaS

      Platform as a Service. Provides a platform for developers to deploy and manage web applications without them having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

      Heroku is a popular PaaS

      Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

      • charlesjo charlesjo

        Paas could be the Easter egg coloring Platform as a Service.

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      • passionate passionate

        it should be > Platform as a Service. Provides a platform for developers to deploy and manage web applications without them having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, but the platform.

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      Follow Marketing

      When an individual using their own account or their business account follows customers on Twitter with the intention of getting them to view their profile and see their sales pitch.

      In an attempt to kick start the awareness of his new protein powder made from peanuts and edible soap, Jack decided to do follow marketing, following every bodybuilder he could in hopes that they would check his Twitter profile to see his buy 1 get 2 free special.

      Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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        Lean Domaining

        Is a strategy used by scrappy startup founders to acquire domains from domain squatters for the lowest price possible. You email the squatter under the guise of a young boy trying to set up a website for his local church group. By using bad grammar (and just sounding dumb in general) you need to sell to the squatter how little money you have, how much hardship you are going through and how much that website will mean to your community. After selling you the domain, the squatter may read your $35m Series A on Techcrunch but that's just business.

        hey john,

        I'm new to the internet i sw that you own cars.com. my church group has made me in charge of setting up a web page. I heard that geocities would be a good place to start. u recommend perl? anyways i have $50. please help me out

        Timmy

        Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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          Rollback

          Generally refers to when you push bad code to production and you want to undo your changes by rolling back to a previous release

          I've made a huge mistake. Do a rollback

          Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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            Bear Goggles

            Similar to beer goggles, bear goggles refer to a the influence of studying at UC Berkeley on one's visual perception, whereby one slowly finds someone attractive who would not have been attractive before studying at UC Berkeley.

            James: What do you think about her? She's pretty hot, right?
            Dave: What are you on? You said she was hideous last semester. Did your optometrist prescribe you bear goggles?

            Added by xmangoslushie xmangoslushie over 8 years ago

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            How Do You Like Them Apples

            A dorky (and almost non-sensical) Bay Area expression often used, when Apple releases a new version of their products, in an attempt to belittle someone else's older model and mock the slow pace in which they've adopted the new product.

            Originally taken out of context from a popular scene of the film, Good Will Hunting, where Matt Damon slaps a post-it note onto a diner window proclaiming his superiority after getting a girl's phone number.

            I just got the iWatch 2 bitches. How do you like them apples?

            Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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              Digital Detox

              Taking a few days away from email, social media, and anything else that involves a glowing screen.
              Practicing major restraint — no Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. for an entire weekend, or any other length of time.

              "Don't worry if you don't hear from me this weekend — I'm doing a digital detox, so I won't see your message until Monday."

              Added by iamDeveloper iamDeveloper over 8 years ago

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                Bricked

                A piece of hardware that doesn’t function anymore because it was tampered with.
                You seriously messed up that upgrade, and now your entire device has been rendered useless.

                "I tried to install the most recent version of Windows on my old Mac, but it totally bricked the whole computer."

                Added by iamDeveloper iamDeveloper over 8 years ago

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                  Valley Ageism

                  Belief that older software engineers aren't cool because they haven't learned the newest programming languages or aren't willing to work 16 hours a day because of family commitments. There's also pressure to do well at a young age due to the celebrity status of young entrepreneurs/engineers such as Mark Zuckerburg

                  The Carver: Your algorithm is solid. It's really good schema.
                  Richard: Ok... Thanks
                  The Carver: I thought you'd be younger. What are you 25?
                  Richard: 26
                  The Carver: Yikes

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdXKdRoB9Wk

                  Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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                    Dogfooding

                    When companies use their own products, often in beta, to test and work out any bugs.
                    Dogfooding often results in companies catching glitches in their apps before they're released to the public.

                    "They really should have dogfooded that app before they released it — there were so many bugs!"

                    Added by iamDeveloper iamDeveloper over 8 years ago

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                      Irreplaceability Tipping Point

                      The point in one's career in which being kept on the payroll, will costs less than firing and hiring someone to fill that same job. This is typically used to refer to engineers who've shipped a sizable amount of code making it an extreme pain to fire them and teach someone old code left by another author.

                      Jack: You went to Yale, you should start your own company.
                      Zeerek: Nah, as the lead engineer and part time PM on the Microsoft Bing team, I am slowly reaching the irreplaceablity tipping point of my career, in which I'll be able to show up, do minimal work, and laugh my way to the bank until I'm old and decrepit.
                      Jack: I don't know whether you're lazy or incredibly smart.
                      Zeerek: I like to think I'm both.

                      Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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                      This changes everything

                      Nothing has changed. Pure marketing

                      See http://svdictionary.com/words/changing-the-world

                      Introducing the iPhone 4. This changes everything.

                      Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

                      • charlesjo charlesjo

                        Love it. Although, I did love my iPhone 4S. And it still runs like ALL Apple products I have ever owned!

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                      • thepaleking thepaleking

                        Doesn't change much to be honest, 99% marketing 1% decent phone

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                      Code Gay

                      When a developer is attracted to another developer's code. Made popular by Silicon Valley

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7bkbv4u1tc

                      Added by zazpowered zazpowered over 8 years ago

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                        Aggregate

                        To list material from different websites over the Internet in one place.

                        There are hubdreds of news agregators on the Internet.

                        Added by GoogleEngineer GoogleEngineer over 8 years ago

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                          Legacy Code

                          Legacy code is source code that relates to a no-longer supported, manufactured operating system or other computer technology.

                          To punish Lewis, the senior engineer decided to make him read and edit legacy code for an entire week.

                          Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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                            alphabet

                            The parent company of Google along with a handful of other companies. You can think of Alphabet as a mega company who owns a ton of shit.

                            My friends have been making fun of me ever since Google changed its name. Being an Alphabet employee sorta sounds embarrassing for some reason.

                            Added by GoogleEngineer GoogleEngineer over 8 years ago

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                              I Could've Built That Fallacy

                              The fallacy in which someone believes that they were capable of building something before an already more popular version of a product has come out.

                              In many instances this fallacy is contained by engineers working at companies or in academia in an indirect attempt to belittle the success of founders, claiming how trivial it is to build said app. It can also be a feeble attempt to make up for their unrealized internal inferiority complex. In reality they might have been able to code it, but not conceive it's details, key features, and brand identity.

                              George suffered from the I could've built that fallacy for weeks after Snapchat received an offer from Facebook for over a billion dollars in talked about acquisition. He built his own version while working at Google, but it only had 5 users. He was happy he didn't quit his day job.

                              Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 8 years ago

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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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