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API
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 agoZen
A common company name prefix and word bastardized by Silicon Valley startups, usually chosen to give new users a false sense of comfort for their soulless product.
I love using ZenPayRoll And ZenBox. I just feel so at peace when using their product.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoCode Base Amnesia
The process of exploring a code base one has architected more than a year ago, wondering why it was built the way it was and marveling at it's incredible structure. They often think to themselves how brilliant they were when constructing it so long ago.
I had code base amnesia for pretty much every Compilers project I did as a Junior. That shit was so hard, I was such a genius to have gotten it all to work at the time.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago
The Auto-Touch Reflex
The propensity for anyone born after 2000 to touch the screen of any electronic device (thinking it's like an IPad or IPhone)
I gave my nephew the IPod 1 and it took him 10 minutes to figure out how to move through the songs and navigate it. He had the auto-touch reflex where he kept touching the screen to pick the song, until later he found out the wheel on the bottom was the only way.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agolol
hahah. I do this now sometimes
The Shit Idea Test
Going to someone who has a record of creating terrible startups and asking him or her if it's a good idea. If he or she says it's a good idea, it's probably an incredibly shitty one. The inverse is also true.
I perform the shit idea test on Ryan whenever I need to gauge whether to hack on a new app or not, just so I know what I'm getting into beforehand. Of course he doesn't know I'm performing it on him.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoLOL @GoogleEngineer, I'm assuming by Ryan, you're talking about Ryan hoover?
Wearable Baiting
Ostentatiously sporting wearable tech with the hope that someone will ask you about it.
I can't hang out Ranvid anymore. He still wears his Google Glass and an iWatch on each hand hoping random people would talk to him, just wearable baiting so hard.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoFree Swag Wardrobe
Switching between two pairs of pants per month and an assortment of free career fair company tshirts on a daily basis. This cuts costs for the wearer and makes them look like their employed (or on the path to being).
Ryan: Why are your shirts all XXL. Laura: Rockin' my free swag wardrobe this month. Ryan: Get it together! Laura: Nah, a Google recruiter approached me when he saw my Twitter shirt. I have second round interview next week. Ryan: Laziness pays off I guess...
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoProtective Social Incompetence
When you purposely take steps to make yourself look and act nerdier than you actually are to prevent having conversations with people or to prevent yourself from distraction from members of the opposite sex. This is done to deflate one's personality to the stereotype of the typical Hollywood engineer for whatever purpose they see fit.
Brian: Ever since they moved the mobile dev team in the biz dev building we've been surrounded by beautiful girls. It's so distracting. Joe: I'm going to wear oversized career fair swag and metal rimmed glasses to nerd overcompensate. That way they'll be repulsed by me. Brian: Perfect, if we nerd overcompensate and act like complete stereotypes they won't even look at us and I'll be able to focus on pushing this new log in.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoThey Are on Fast Track to Unicorn Status
If you have to say it, 9 times out of 10 it isn't true.
One of the hottest UC Berkeley startups, BroMeNow, is looking for an entry level Full Stack Developer. I sit next to these guys at the Skylark incubator and can attest: they are wicked smart and on the fast track to unicorn status.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoMalware Engineer
An asshole software engineer who creates malware (programs that attack your computer to display advertisements and unwanted pop ups).
Satish: One of my students was a malware engineer who installed malware on my computer after emailing me his homework. Now whenever I plug my Mac into the projector during lecture, Live Jasmine popups keep showing up. Ryan: Uhh...that's because you have this tab open right here on chrome. Satish: You weren't supposed to see that.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoLead Investor
When raising a large round of seed money, the lead investor is your headliner that makes it more convincing for other investors to get on board.
After Ashton Kutcher became our lead investor, every bloodsucking leach in the valley decided to send me emails asking if they could get in on the round.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoOctocat
The mascot of Github (a revision control service programmers commonly use).
If you see someone with a Octocat tshirt, chances are they are a major nerd.
http://cssnerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-00.02.24-600x428.png
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoPickup Hacks
A nerdy term thrown around that denotes strategies to ask women (or men) out.
Winston: Yo Bob got any Pickup hacks? Bob: Yeah. Stop compensating for traits that you think you lack, by putting down every person you meet for their "lack of intelligence." Winston: Fuck, I can't do that. I'm playing DOTA tonight instead.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoGoogle Fanboy
Someone who exclusively buys Google products and defends the company even in the most morally questionable circumstances.
Jack: Talking to Lewis really made me feel like my iPhone 6 was a bad purchase. I also am hesitant about buying a Macbook Pro. Jane: Don't listen to that guy, he's a Google fanboy who thinks Apple products are chrome instruments invented by the devil.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago
hahaha happens to me everytime.