Silicon 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 9 years agoInvestor Crushing
Learning everything possible about your ideal investors fantasizing about the scenario in which the both of you talk about things you just happen to be interested in.
I've been investor crushing on Marc Andreessen for months now. Whenever I see an egg I get so wet.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoYahoo Purple
The signal of a bad and usually old fashioned product. If the product seems innovative and actually useful you will quickly find out that it is like a typical Yahoo app (sucks/requires a Yahoo account) and there are other apps that do the same thing but better. The only exception is Yahoo Fantasy Sports
http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/125351474614/yahoo-livetext-a-new-way-to-connect
zazpowered over 9 years agoGithub Flexing
Sharing your Github profile in as many places as possible with the intention of showing off all the work you've done on various projects.
Mark: Fuck Ryan is such a God. He showed me his github last night and now I'm sure we won't be able to beat him in the Hackathon. Vanessa: Nah don't worry, he's just Github flexing
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoStandup desk
Desk for posers.
Jack: Dude I got a standup desk because I want to look cool and all. You know it's a thing these days.
svhunt over 9 years ago
Terms Were Not Disclosed
Usually refers to an acquihire or an acquisition in which the price was not big enough to be impressive.
Google has acquired Yo. The terms were not disclosed.
zazpowered 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 agoStanfurd
For some reason UC Berkeley students think spelling Stanford like this is some sort of insult.
Jessica: We won the big game against Cal again. Ben: You go to STANFURD soo who cares?? Jessica: Uh...
covfefelord over 9 years agoAPI
Software that lets applications interact with other applications that you don't own.
Whenever Pinterest prompts users to use Facebook login, you're using a Facebook API
GoogleEngineer 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 agoPornogaphy 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 agoThe Fake Female Avatar Phenomenon
A phenomenon in which over 75% of female avatars online or in games are men just pretending to be women to get attention.
I used to take advantage of the Fake Female Avatar Phenomenon when pretending to be a female orc on World of Warcraft. Desperate guys would give me gold and help me pay for college because of the stories I'd feed them.
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 ago
Yahoo -> Polyvore