Imagineer
A term given to creative people employed at Pixar and Disney. When engineers say that they are imagineers, people tend to figure out they work at Pixar and a part of their soul dies after digesting what they've said.
Justin: I'm a software engineer at TubeMogul. What do you do?
Dave: Well I'm glad you asked! I'm an IMAGINEER at Pixar...wait where are you going?
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoWantrepreneur
Someone who wants to start a company so he or she can garner social proof from it all, instead of someone who has an innovative idea that could possibly make money.
Although alot of the Wharton MBA's are quite intelligent, many of them are wantrepreneurs who just want to tell girls that they are the CEOs of companies.
covfefelord over 9 years ago
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.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoSnapcash
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.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoDoes anyone use Facebook Messenger's version of this?
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.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoaka tenured software engineer
hahaha ^
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.
covfefelord over 9 years agoEditor War
Refers to the rivalry between users of the Emacs and Vi text editors.
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pygmyknight over 9 years agoToyota Prius
Official car of the Bay Area due to the eco-friendly lifestyle in portrays. It is slowly being replaced by Tesla.
Tim: You're in the 3 comma club why do you drive a Prius?
Matt: Does your car get 46 MPG?
zazpowered over 9 years agoNomad
An entrepreneur or remote employee that can work and travel all around the world because the only things they need to be productive are internet and laptop.
Last year I had an amazing experience as a nomad working out of Starbucks in over 30 countries.
zazpowered over 9 years agoDigital Nomad
@koqoo true. I should change it
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
zazpowered over 9 years agoI 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.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoI hear this so often
Agreed
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.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoGrab Bag Founders
When a number of people have decided not to be cofounders with you and you are left with all C level players. Basically, scraping the bottom of the barrel.
John wanted to start a company and needed cofounders but all of his friends decided to work for Google instead so he did a mass email blast and took the first 2 people to reply.
SingleCommaClub over 9 years agoWonder where you thought of this from
LilB
An artist and cultural icon from Berkeley, California who many regard as "the rawest rapper in the game." To many of his fans he's simply known as The BasedGod and to many's surprise, he's quite plugged into life in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley.
I went to the free LilB concert on the UC Berkeley campus today. We pretty much spent the night bobbing our head to his mastermind music, while doing the LilB cooking dance. It was fantastic.
yungsnuggie over 9 years ago@Username Ignore
When someone mentions a famous person in a semi-popular tweet, but is brutally ignored by the person they mentioned.
Jerry: Did you see the Sam Altman tweet, tagging Snoop Dog saying how he would've been an awesome candidate as the new CEO of reddit. George: Yeah Snoop @Username Ignored him though. I feel bad for him. Really left the guy hanging.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoZombie Startup
VC funded companies that don't close their doors after funding runs out, but also does not grow significantly. They typically generate enough revenues to continue business, but the VC is unable to divest. As a result, the company tends to shed all of its brainpower and continues to operate as a brainless zombie for many years.
All of the engineering talent has left the company. What's left is a zombie startup that should continue to operate, but nobody's ever going to make money there.
ttitus over 9 years agoThis is a good blog post about it http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/zombie-startups/
Vestigial Code
A code probably once served a purpose, but doesn't anymore. You're afraid of removing it because after years it just looks right the way it is.
In evolutionary biology vestigial organs are the ones an organism probably once used but no longer serve a purpose today.
James: Dude help me debug my new one button app, "Dude."
Zeeshan: What is all this? None of it serves a purpose.
James: It's vestigial code that makes gives me confidence when making something new. I've just built everything on top of my dayspan code from freshman year until now. I commented it out, don't worry.
Zeeshan: You're a terrible human being, you know that?
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoPay to Play
Pay to play is a phrase used for a variety of situations in which money is exchanged for services or the privilege to engage in certain activities within a mobile or console game.
Antonio: LoL is a totally free Pay to Play game MOBA game.
Zeeshan: That's awesome, so you haven't spent any money on it?
Antonio: Only 300$. But dat Annie skin is jus' so sweet man.
Zeeshan: You don't read Penny Arcade do you...
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoFlappy Bird Fatigue
The incredible amount of fatigue one feels after playing hours of flappy bird. Your overall day begins to deteriorate as you think to yourself why you couldn't get past your currently highest pipe number.
Abdullah: Dude you look exhausted. What's going on?
Zeerek:: I've got flappy bird fatigue because after playing it for 2 hours this morning while Karen was giving an HR presentation. I feel completely wiped out, but all I want to do is keep playing.
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.
Also popularized by Mark Cuban on Shark Tank.