Getting Swallowed By A Whale
When a bigger company builds what a startup was trying to release. The startup is normally in over it's ahead if the feature is very similar due to the companies resources, money, and development team advantage.
Ron: I heard Jack's startup was trying to annotate the internet. Julia: They got swallowed by a whale. Genius.com got funded and did it before they could.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoheads down
Focused intensely on developing, coding, building, making, and all around working hard.
I know all your engineers are heads down, but could you help me out with my landing page?
nzieber over 9 years agoChris Bosh
An NBA basketball player that promoted computer science in a code.org video. Some people are skeptical that a 6'10 power forward making 20m a year is coding in his free time but its possible.
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zazpowered over 9 years agoAdd Me on Google Plus
A commonly used expression used during the first two weeks of the product's release.
I just got my invite, add me on Google Plus. This is going to destroy facebook
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoApple
A massive electronics company started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. With $180B in cash on hand, a $730B market cap and people all over the world scrambling to buy their latest products, Apple is doing almost everything well. A large part of their success is due to their marketing of the latest iPhone upgrade as the greatest thing in the world. See http://svdictionary.com/words/this-changes-everything
Jenny: I need that gold iPhone. I make $10k a year but I need that iPhone
zazpowered over 9 years agoCode Base Amnesia
The process of exploring a code base one has architected more than a year ago, wondering why it was built the way it was and marveling at it's incredible structure. They often think to themselves how brilliant they were when constructing it so long ago.
I had code base amnesia for pretty much every Compilers project I did as a Junior. That shit was so hard, I was such a genius to have gotten it all to work at the time.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoMAU
Monthly active users. Number of unique users of an app during a month or 30 day period
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zazpowered over 9 years agoTechnical Debt
A silly but effective analogy to explain refactoring to business people.
Developer: "We need to refactor the legacy auth module, which is a dependency for most of our new modules."
Business Guy: "... wat."
Developer: "Some of our early code was debt-financed. That senior debt has preference until we pay it off."
Business Guy: "Oh, I totally get it now. Why didn't you just say that?"
employeeNumbaOne over 9 years agoWindows 10 Years Too Late
The latest operating system released by Microsoft, often joked about how late they were in getting it right.
Ricky: You buying Windows 10 Years Too Late? Sameer: Nah, I'm getting a Macbook Retina Air with whatever the hell it comes with.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoH.T.M.L
An acronym for How To Meet Ladies NOT that html you're thinking about.
Erlich from the show wears a t-shirt with those exact letters, a t-shirt so irresistible that you can't help but to hug him.
Meanwhile at a startup event... Matt: Dude, seriously you couldn't find something else to wear for the event?!
Zeeshan: Whatcha talking about son? This is my favorite t-shirt. AND all the ladies are going to want to MEET me because I know how to H.T.M.L you know what I mean? ;)
svhunt over 9 years agoTrain Jumper
An investor or founder who only joins a startup when something significant happens because their afraid that the startup train is moving without them.
Jian Yang treated Marcus and his dating app like shit until it was written about in Tech Crunch and he decided to be a train jumper taking his offer to be a founder
yungsnuggie over 8 years ago@kchoi
Pornogaphy Leads to Innovation
The belief that software that allows high sharability of human sexual expression, grows and pushes internet technology forward. This notion is often applied to high res video streaming technology and VR apps.
Ronald: They say that the one thing that pushed high streaming 1080p content was the desire for triple xxx sites to have better selections and product. Even the Occulus president says they are allowing NSFW apps on Rift. Lewis: Pornography leads to innovation I suppose...
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoVersion Control
Basically means multiple people can go back to previous iterations of a product. This is important because if you release new code that destroys your product you can go back to the version that worked.
Often used in the descriptions of sites like Github, Bitbucket, etc.
Rob and Mike didn't use any version control software, so as soon as their intern pushed buggy code to their system they had to go offline for a week.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoAdsense
This is a product put out by Google that allows you to make money off the traffic on your website. It's basically one of the easiest ways to "sell out."
Rob: I hate all the targeted Ads your new website Charlie. Charlie: I love the money I'm getting off Adsense though, so fuck you.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoMedia Headliners
Products big companies keep in the Research and Development area of their company and display at an event for the pure purpose of garnering media attention. The products themselves are either set for release on a date far in the future or never at all.
Tai: Did you see the Google contact lens in the news? Kyrie: Meh, just a media headliner not set to come out for awhile.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoCompany Info Session
When a company pays a university to have an hour to talk to students about why they should work and apply to their company. If the company is well known they normally collect alot of resumes during one of these sessions.
Jack: I went to the Google company info session for the free food, but was so enticed about what they had to say that I decided to give the recruiter my resume. Emma: You're full of shit. You went there like a shameless animal, sweet talking that recruiter like your life depended on it. I could smell the desperation from the other building.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoFree Pizza Lure
Luring college engineer and business dev candidates to one's job info session with free food, most commonly pizza.
Chad: Did you go to the Twitter Info Session. Laura: Yeah, I just went for the pizza though. I don't know why everyone here wants to work so badly at Twitter and Google.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoWeiner Tweeting
Tweeting pictures of one's genetillia and messaging it to someone over Twitter. Coined after former U.S. House Representative Anthony Weiner, who famously tweeted a picture of his privates to a woman he was trying to impress.
Brad: I've been getting so many follows on my twitter account ever since I wrote that Medium article on quitting my job, that I now want to start Weiner Tweeting some of the hot new ladies I've inspired. Charlie: I don't know how you could be capable of writing something so popular but also think something like that would work.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoGoogle Doc Stealth Corresponsdence
Using Google Docs to relay private information between individuals.
I was so afraid that Lucy's boyfriend would find out about me and her meeting up at night, that I started setting up times to meet up using Google Docs, deleting every new message we received from one another.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoVR Legs
A metaphor describing one's comfort when using a VR headset.
Ron: I don't know how you're able to use Oculus for longer than an hour without wanting to throw up. Cindy: You just haven't gotten your VR legs yet. I've modded Skyrim and only play on my Oculus now.
covfefelord over 9 years ago
hahaha happens to me everytime.