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Product Designer

The latest in a constant string of designer job titles trying to explain what the hell they design. Usually stands for designers that build the UX and UI in a combined fashion for digital devices such as phones, tablets, and desktop computers. Not to be confused with UX designers, UI designers, Web designers, Graphic designers, Illustrators, AR/VR designers, Scientific designers, Brand designers, Systems designers, Design managers, Art directors, and Creative directors.

CEO: Sarah is our lead Product Designer. She's in charge of designing our core customer experience.
Customer: What's the product?
CEO: We phish social security numbers from elderly folks in hopes of selling the identities to communist nations.

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Added by PixelPuller PixelPuller about 1 year ago

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Emacs Pinky

Repetitive strain injury caused by constant use of one's "pinky finger" when using modifier keys in Emacs. This term has been adopted by developers using other editors or IDEs due to frequent use of quotes, ticks, braces, colon, semi-colon. etc. as they are dependent upon the use of the right hand pinky.

God I hate you PHP! Every day I have Emacs pinky because every line requires at least five keystrokes with my right hand's little finger.

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Added by Mowaterfowl Mowaterfowl over 1 year ago

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SAAS

High margins

Eric ditched his chat app to build a SAAS site instead.

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Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 1 year ago

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Meat 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!"

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Added by IGotFBOffer IGotFBOffer almost 2 years ago

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Iris

A girl residing in Menlo Park.

Iris just got a Facebook interview!

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Added by Ivywing Ivywing almost 2 years ago

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Cockchain

A gathering of blockchain enthusiasts talking about how blockchain technology will change the world -- a blockchain circlejerk.

Kevin, John, and Max formed a cockchain as they discussed the viability of smart contracts for prostitutes at the hackathon.

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Added by sv_god sv_god about 2 years ago

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Optics

The default reason given when C-Level spend money on things that have no ROI.

CEO: "Do we need these expensive Herman Miller chairs? No. But optics... "

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Added by sdubya sdubya about 2 years ago

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Problematic

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.

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Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie about 2 years ago

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42

42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

It is also a famous and one of the world's best computer programming school.

- Six by nine. Forty two.
- That's it. That's all there is.
- I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Douglas Adams (1 January 1980). The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

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Added by ElieTeyssedou ElieTeyssedou over 2 years ago

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Engineer Unicorn (2)

An engineer that is competent, good looking, dresses well, looks like a white horse and has a horn growing from his forehead.

John: How come no other engineers are like David?
Mary: He's an engineer unicorn. They are rare.

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Added by hugo hugo over 2 years ago

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Covfefe

Coverage.

Word was first used by the forty-fifth president of the United States on an online news and social networking service called Twitter, where users post and interact with messages called "tweets", restricted to 140 characters. Twitter was created by four nerds Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams who never dreamed their network would result in the birth of words like this.

Ex1: Uber has been getting alot of bad covfefe lately

Ex2: "Despite the constant negative press covfefe"

Ex3: Ray J leaked his sex tape with Kim Kardashian because he wanted to hurt her tabloid press covfefe. Ironically it ended up making her one of the most famous reality TV stars in the world.

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Added by covfefelord covfefelord over 2 years ago

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subversives

tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs. noun. a person who adopts subversive principles or policies.

I believe in the power of startups and want to build amazing products with passionate subversives

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Added by mmontagna mmontagna over 2 years ago

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Fireside Chat

A Silicon Valley ritual/circlejerk in which someone somewhat successful gets asked questions by a young upstart you never end up hearing from again.

Just spent my day attending fireside chat's in SF. I feel so motivated now I'm gonna play 20 hours of League of Legends.

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Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie almost 3 years ago

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LaCroix

The #1 drink of choice for startups. It is somehow delicious and calorie-free at the same time.

LaCroix was co-founded by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and most recently raised a Series Z from Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from the French government.

If you're interviewing for a startup, check their fridge for LaCroix, and if they don't have any, run for the hills!

"I'm gonna wash down this pull request with a Berry LaCroix."

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Added by juju_lew juju_lew almost 3 years ago

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Pretotype

A simple, often paper version of a very early prototype built in less than a day to help a startup team actualize their idea without spending a lot of time noodling on the "what ifs" and "how might we" questions.

Okay, let's pretotype these 3 ideas today so we can focus on one of them by the end of the week.

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Added by jmlokitz jmlokitz almost 3 years ago

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Developing for Ghosts

Making stuff for people who may or may not exist.

As a potential investor for his company, I can't tell if Stevie is making something for people in need or he's just guessing by developing for ghosts

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Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie about 3 years ago

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Ponytail Bias

When you automatically assume someone is a great engineer because of their ponytail. This bias most often occurs with men who also have metal glasses frames and a beard that goes down to their neck.

James often experiences pony tail bias when he visits Seattle even though he's really a musician who plays with a band no ones ever heard of.

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Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie about 3 years ago

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Leaning In

When someone flamboyantly promotes and espouses feminism in an attempt to get laid.

Jonathan if you want to get women to like you, stop being such a pretentious asshole and start leaning in for once.

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Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie about 3 years ago

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Wung It

Coming up with stuff on the spot usually to one's success. Another of saying winged it.

Julie: How did the meeting go?

Arlan: Didn't really prepare, I wung it and landed the deal.

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Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie about 3 years ago

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Comp Plan

An incentivized payment plan for a sales rep in a start up.

You'll know what salary they're offering you once you go over your comp plan with the manager.

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Added by sfazal sfazal about 3 years ago

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