Logo Wingman Fail
When you go out with your logo wingman but you don't choose a suitable logo.
Jen: I know what you're doing but I don't know what Pied Piper is
zazpowered over 9 years agoAndreessen Voodoo
Drawing facial pictures on eggs to make them look like venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Entrepreneurs then worship the eggs, hoping they can grow to unicorn status.
Every night before going to be Kamdesh engaged in Andreessen Voodoo hoping that his pitch would go well the following week.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoPerceived Value Pricing
Gauging the pricing of one's product based on how much people THINK it's worth.
RocketSpoon used perceived value pricing to justify the increase in price for their product because they were the only food delivery platform in their area that delivered airline quality food within the smallest time window.
yungsnuggie over 8 years agoVirtual Christmas
Simulating the perfect holiday on one's VR helmet sitting alone in one's apartment.
http://churchm.ag/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/TheGreatestGift.jpg
I decided to cancel my trip back home, break up with my girlfriend, and have a Virtual Christmas this year.
yungsnuggie almost 9 years agoUnapologetically Plastic
Almost every tech billionaire in Silicon Valley.
Jony Ive, Travis Kalanick, Evan Spiegel, Eric Schmidt et al.
That_Guy over 9 years agoTechnical Bankruptcy
The accumulation of so much technical debt that it would be faster to start from scratch rather than trying to fix it.
Word proposed by Iheanyi Ekechukwu on https://twitter.com/kwuchu/status/625786816965160961
Ok guys, we're done with this legacy code. Technical bankruptcy needs to happen. Let's start from scratch.
svhunt over 9 years agocontent
Anything that you can either read or understand from any one or more of your senses (hearing or sight, but usually not smell or touch).
Q: How can I create great content?
A: Well you could write something.
Q: That's not good enough, I want it to be more interesting.
A: I have an idea, record your voice and make a podcast.
Q: That's much better.
jbark55 almost 9 years agoProblematic
A word that describes behavior that is only offensive to people in Silicon Valley or elite colleges. If someone accuses your behavior of being problematic you are likely to be fired or get written up for an HR violation if you work at a tech company.
The fact that Kamdesh only eats pasta in the company cafeteria and the fact that he only dates Italian women is problematic because he is appropriating European culture and is sexist against Indian women in his dating preferences.
yungsnuggie about 7 years agoLinux Minters
Engineers whose preference in OS is the Linux Mint operating system. They are irrationally smart and work so fast that they are said to literally mint code like machines.
Jeremy is a Linux Minter who refused to use the Macbook Pro his office gave him, and instead uses his PC that has a vanilla version of Linux Mint installed.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoAndrew Andrade
Canada's co-op (intern) student of the year.
Andrew: "Oh man, I wish I was Andrew Andrade"
Not Andrew: "That's such an Andrew Andrade way of thinking"
Stroodlemuffin over 9 years agoThis must be Andrew then?
Nope, not me. Either one of my bros, one of the members of my hate club, one of the members of my fan club, but most likely some weird combo of all three.
Simply Scheming
Trying to impress a future employer by referencing knowledge in Lisp (a programming language with a horrendous amount of parenthesis) that is mostly only taught at MIT and UC Berkeley. Simply Scheme is also the title to a textbook written by Brian Harvey (MIT alum and tenured Berkeley professor).
Fred simply schemed his way out of the first round interviews making his interviewer feel incompetent by his lack of knowledge in Lisp.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoThis is taught heavily at Waterloo as well (although there is a fair bit of Haskell as well). Elegant weapons, for a more civilized world.
Frackathon
A period of time in which a person or group of people spend their time fracking.
James: Noah is off going off the radar this weekend to join his friends in Houston for a frackathon.
Winston: What a weird guy.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoUber Fast Food
When you are hungry during a Uber ride so you tell your driver to go through Mcdonald's drive-through.
Matt: "Honestly, getting Uber Fast Food isn't so bad. It is a little awkward for the Mcdonald's employee to see your driver trying to align the backseat window with the drive-through window so you can pay . Of course if a friend sees you it's also a little embarrassing but that's it."
zazpowered over 9 years ago
Cal (aka Berkeley, aka Not-Stanford)
Harvard: Stanford of East Coast.
Stanford: For students who could not get into Cal.
Cal: Letting Stanford dropouts and graduates pursue all the billion dollar ideas because it was never about the money.
http://startupstudygroup.com/glossary/#comment-39
Cal: Yeah, you have rich parents. Stanford: At least we got in.
charlesjo over 9 years agoThe Shell Dilemma
When your startup reaches the point where you only have engineers on your team, all of which become a hollow unexciting shell of themselves in the board room. This is when you end up having to compromise and add your first non-technical founder because he is an incredible orator and can represent the product you built better than anyone on your team can.
On the Silicon Valley TV show, Richard faces the shell dilemma when he finds he cannot pitch his idea without sweating profusely and messing up. He seeks help from his friend Erlich Bachman afterward to save him.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoDressing the part
When an engineer that normally wears contact lenses puts on glasses for a job interview or pitch meeting.
See http://svdictionary.com/words/software-engineer-uniform
Jennifer: You seriously think wearing glasses is going to help you get funded?
David: It's called dressing the part and it works so stop talking.
zazpowered over 9 years agoMeat Dog
A dog that you can eat. Also a person who kept saying meat dog to his friend who got a Facebook offer and was later laughed at.
Meat Dog is also known as Donut, Donald, Z.K etc. He got a 4.3 GPA and is one of the smartest people at a college located in Ithaca,NY
Meat Dog is a lazy TA, but a professor here loves him. Huh?
Meat Dog won Cache War with his partner Papa Kuo in 2k17.
"Meat Dog, you are a piece of shit!"
"Meat Dog, can we have dinner at DeTasty at 4:30?"
"Exclamation Mark!"
IGotFBOffer almost 7 years agoFull stack engineer
We want to hire you to work on all parts of the stack because we cannot afford specialized engineers for the different technical stack pieces and feel it's better to start the stack being sub-par instead of having expertise in each stack layer.
We are looking for a full-stack engineering to join our start-up, the next Google!
acceleweb about 8 years ago
lol wtf