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Free and open-source software
Anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve it's design.
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yungsnuggie over 9 years agoMilitary Artifical Intelligence
Plain and simple: Weapons that adapt. They aren't robots per se, just weapons that attack and make calculations based on key information.
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are among those calling for a ban on military AI as that they could set off a revolution in weaponry comparable to gunpowder and nuclear arms
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoHipsterpreneur
A person that sits frequently in hi-design coffee bistros, that claims to be changing the world with his big eco-friendly & non-scalable idea.
While in reality this harmless, cobweb-bearded, latte-sipping, fixie-cycling creature camps out days on end, in mood-light-coffee-bistros leeching on free wifi and lemon water without having a remote clue of what it actually takes to hustle and hack his way to a MVP and beyond.
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Abologic over 9 years agoHipsterpreneur: Hashtag MVP. Hashtag unicorn. Friend/Interventionist: Dude, you got biscotti on your beard.
A publicly-traded spam-bot and click-bait machine. It will steal your contacts info and transmit spam to you and your contacts in perpetuity. The 'Unsubscribe' link in the email is only a placeholder. LinkedIn engineers deliberately did not code any action into the link click, because Fuck You!
Compelled by the torrent of spam, you will login to the web interface/app and have your news feed bombarded with Grade A click-bait from famous internet trolls such as Business Insider.
I recently signed up on LinkedIn and now my 100GB inbox is #reckt.
That_Guy over 9 years ago
No Eeyores Rule
A rule where startups should avoid hiring people who are pessimistic, gloomy, depressed in order to prevent decreased morale.
A term first proposed by Jason Calacanis in this tweet -> https://twitter.com/Jason/status/627907240037519360
Employee #1: Jack I really don't think you should hire chris because you know no Eeyores rule.
Nontechnical CEO: Cool. Let's look for another engineer unicorn.
svhunt over 9 years agoZynga
A word used to describe the flashing and annoying ads which consume the lower 1/3 of your phone's screen.
Bro #1: Taking my phone to the shop, there's this weird Zynga on my screen that refuses to go away.
Bro #2: Ha, I had to throw mine in the trash to get rid of it.
That_Guy over 9 years agoEast Bay Startups
Despite mainstream view, they indeed exist are are growing more and more prevalent. With the absurd prices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, areas in Downtown Oakland, Emeryville, and pockets of Berkeley have seen increased growth in new company offices.
Many also consider living in the East Bay incredibly convenient, despite it's reputation for crime. It is often asked whether east bay startups should be considered apart of "Silicon Valley," to which many reply..."meh close enough."
Winston: Where is your startup office located good sir. James: Oakland son. Winston: I am not familiar with this Oak-Land. How far is it from Sand Hill Road?
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoOak-land. nice
Analytics
Sounds fancy, but it's just a data measuring mechanism that gives you info on customer app visits.
An example would be Mixpanel or Google Analytics which tells you stuff like how many people are going and staying on your site, how many people are making accounts, etc.
Lauren: Our user base is growing exponentially. Jack: WOAH HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT. Lauren: This fancy graph in the analytics shows us, my friend. Jack: Math is power! Lauren: Uh...yeah. I guess.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoDogecoin
A now mostly defunct crypto currency that has a picture of a Shiba Inu dog as it's logo.
Delivery guy: Hi I have your pizza delivery, that will be 22.45$ Randolph: Fantastic. Do you accept Dogecoin? Delivery guy: Why yes we do. That will be 130,644.70 Doge.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoStartup Wet Dreaming
A nocturnal emission that occurs at the thought of one's startup being acquired or achieving vast success.
Julie: These sheets....what the hell. Are you cheating on me? Ryan: Sorry babe, I've been startup wet dreaming ever since Tech Stars accepted our team. Love ya.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoThis may have happened to me before
Working Remotely
Sounds fancy, but its basically when someone is too lazy to go to the office so they do minimal work from home. If they do this often enough they take a picture of their computer at a nice coffee shop or dining table saying how lucky they are to have the job they do to mask their small amount of shame.
Lowe: I got 20 likes on my Facebook picture of me working remotely. Ryan: Your an unfunded startup founder, you ALWAYS work remotely.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoToronto / University of Toronto
The place that thinks they're the best engineering school in the True North Strong and Free, however is actually inferior especially in terms of entrepreneurship as compared to the University of Waterloo. But at the very least without us, Waterloo can't scale because at the end of the day they're still a small suburban town in the middle of nowhere.
Author of the Word - yes I attend the University of Toronto but even I know that it's worse than Waterloo when it comes to startups, tech, and innovation. Conglaturations you Waterloo engineers!
tosfan4ever over 9 years agoKale
Sometimes called "the world's healthiest food." It has become a staple for many Bay Area residents who pride themselves on living a healthy lifestyle.
It also has become a stereotypical food group subjected to highly pretentious techies and food snobs who flaunt their supposed physical and mental superiority over people.
Jack: Why do you eat so much Kale. Ryan: Because I want everyone to know how healthy I am. Maybe Sabrina will notice me and ask me about my clean code and my clean eating habits. Jack: Or you can go talk to her.... Ryan: No, she has to make the first move or else I'll appear to desperate. Jack: But you are desperate...that's why you're eating so much kale.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoBoonies
Anywhere outside Uber's or Lyft's discounted ride share areas.
Example 1
Example 2
Friend 1: Where do you live?
Friend 2: Inner Sunset...the boonies.
Coworker: I just moved to the city and need to look for a place to rent. Where should I look?
Coworker 2: You should totally look in SOMA or the mission... you don't want to get stuck in the boonies.
canterburry over 9 years agonice one
Undev
Short for: Undead developer
See related: Undead
A developer who is constantly in a braindead state, having become accustomed to a severe degree of apathy (causes may vary) and low motivation. Usually, groups of them are found in companies with a highly lucrative business model coupled with low competition in their segment of the industry.
Identifiers: Unable to think, learn, or communicate despite repeated encouragement, instruction, and subsequent reprimanding.
Some studies have shown that undev-ness is contractable, but the means by which it spreads continues to elude scientists.
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lloydmeta about 9 years agoAccurate
Convertible Note
A note used for the most well-known method of raising venture capital in Silicon Valley; raising convertible debt. This is when the investor buys shares priced at a later round of a companies VC raising.
Raising capital for alot of companies is a long term process. Basically convertible debt just makes it so that a VC gets more bang for his buck because he invested earlier. Each round the shares get more expensive, but you don't know how much of a discount one will get until each subsequent round. Value is pretty relative in this way.
If this sounds like economic black magic, it's because it kind of is. There are very few industries in the world in which people raise finances this way. When one understands how convertible debt works, TechCrunch headlines also sound less impressive and one begins to wonder if values are purposely inflated or deflated to fit different situations.
NOTE: It's technically regarded as "debt," which is why many entrepreneurs are pushing for the use of essentially the same thing called a SAFE (which doesn't use the word debt in it's language).
Steven Pham raised 200k on a convertible note to pursue his idea of mass producing solar powered dildo dispensers which send live tweets on the buyers identity upon sale.
yungsnuggie about 9 years agoEngineer Unicorn
An engineer that is competent, good looking, dresses well and is not socially awkward.
John: How come no other engineers are like David?
Mary: He's an engineer unicorn. They are rare.
pygmyknight over 9 years agoThe legend says some of them can be found here http://www.engineerunicorns.com
"Unicorn" is a common term for an engineer (usually front-end) who also has good taste in design and is able to contribute to UX early on. But "unicorn" is also used for startups that turn out to be breakout successes, like Uber and Airbnb. Silicon Valley really likes unicorns.
nice representation of valley's current stance on AI