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Man Jose
Man Jose refers to the city of San Jose, located within Silicon Valley, which contains a large number of male Software Engineers.
Sam: Why can't I find a nice girl to go out with?
Mark: What did you expect? You live in Man Jose.
xmangoslushie over 9 years agoHackafreeloader
Someone who goes to Hackathons for the sole purpose of eating awesome food and getting free stuff.
Although he is an excellent programmer, James did not build anything at the Facebook Hackathon, but instead spent his time being a hackafreeloader eating catered food and drinking bottled juice. It was like a mini-vacation for him.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoGetting Swallowed By A Whale
When a bigger company builds what a startup was trying to release. The startup is normally in over it's ahead if the feature is very similar due to the companies resources, money, and development team advantage.
Ron: I heard Jack's startup was trying to annotate the internet. Julia: They got swallowed by a whale. Genius.com got funded and did it before they could.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoProtective Incompetence
Being bad at something you don't like to do, so you don't have to do it.
> I think the reason I made such a mystery of business was that I was disgusted by the idea of doing it. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers' mundane problems. People who don't want to get dragged into some kind of work often develop a protective incompetence at it. Paul Erdos was particularly good at this. By seeming unable even to cut a grapefruit in half (let alone go to the store and buy one), he forced other people to do such things for him, leaving all his time free for math. Erdos was an extreme case, but most husbands use the same trick to some degree.
adamzerner over 9 years agoTitle Promotion
A title promotion is a like a normal promotion, except without any increase in compensation, whether salary or otherwise. This is typically used to make engineers feel more important and get them to do more work without actually paying them for it.
Calvin: I just got promoted to Senior Software Engineer! I get to manage a team and maintain existing code!
Jerry: Are you getting paid more?
Calvin: No, but think of how exciting this opportunity is!
Jerry: ...
xmangoslushie over 9 years agoEmail Bankruptcy
When an inbox has thousands of unread emails, and the best solution is to just mass-delete rather than spending days combing through them.
If you really tried to read and respond to all of those messages, it might be a very long time before you interacted with another human IRL again.
"My inbox is so overwhelming, I'm declaring email bankruptcy. I'm deleting everything sent before September!"
iamDeveloper over 9 years agoTo Tswift
To call out or threaten to call out a company on social media and have it actually mean something due to your popularity
I know my performance at work hasn't been the best but I think firing me is a little too drastic. Now you know I have 300,000 followers on Twitter. I don't like to do it but I will tswift the company if you don't change your mind.
zazpowered over 9 years agoUp and to the Right
An incredible growth curve in your business metrics. Also known as a Hockey Stick curve.
Squeeze the X-axis until your growth curve is Up and to the Right.
firasd over 9 years ago
Junior Software Engineer
An engineer that fixes bugs and writes tests.
Tim: I've just been fixing typos and writing tests for all the shitty code other engineers are putting out. When will I do real work?
Harold: Shut up and keep working
zazpowered over 9 years ago
Code 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 agohahaha happens to me everytime.
Long Nail Delay
When an engineer or person working at a computer doesn't cut his finger nails and his typing speed is slowed down because of it.
Jack: Why are you working so slowly today? It took you 20 more minutes to debug Horace's shitty code today Lou: It's Long Nail Delay, My roommate sold my nail clipper to some pervert on Craigslist. Jack: Totally makes sense now.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agosounds really dumb but it does slow you down
Engineer Jailbait
Someone who has been coding since a very early age and is employed at a large company or startup. They are younger than 18, but seem much older given the vast depth of their knowledge.
Julie: That guy Kumar is kind of cute.
George: Woah, I'd stay away from him if I was you, he's 17 and engineer jailbait.
Julie: Good thing you told me. I dodged a serious bullet, but man he's such a tease.
yungsnuggie 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 agoHackathon Poacher
Recruiters who hang around Hackathon (coding/product competitions) in hopes of recommending them to a company in which they garner commission or recruit to their own venture.
Matt: See that guy in the corner wearing a business suit and the blue tie.
Zeeshan: Yeah, what about him? He's seems pretty friendly.
Matt: He's a hackathon poacher looking for engineers to join his dating app team, that matches people without visas to people who have them.
Zeeshan: That's sorta brilliant, but probably borderline illegal.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoFrackathon
A period of time in which a person or group of people spend their time fracking.
James: Noah is off going off the radar this weekend to join his friends in Houston for a frackathon.
Winston: What a weird guy.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoMAU
Monthly active users. Number of unique users of an app during a month or 30 day period
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zazpowered over 9 years agoConnector
BS filler that folks use in their Linkedin headline (and/or business cards) when they really don't have anything important to say about themselves. A Connector in SV is the equivalent of a Hollywood socialite.
Josh, to himself: Aaannnd there...I just set my LinkedIn headline to Entrepreneur | Connector| Networker | Twerker. Now I am gonna sit back and watch the job offers roll in.
That_Guy over 9 years agoConsulting Blogger/Connector
Technical Debt
A silly but effective analogy to explain refactoring to business people.
Developer: "We need to refactor the legacy auth module, which is a dependency for most of our new modules."
Business Guy: "... wat."
Developer: "Some of our early code was debt-financed. That senior debt has preference until we pay it off."
Business Guy: "Oh, I totally get it now. Why didn't you just say that?"
employeeNumbaOne 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 ago
the example doesn't use the term