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The Anti Drug Test Node
An employee who mostly does his assignments and work under the influence quite often, but is so valuable to the company that the managers go through any length to prevent drug tests from being conducted on that individual or department.
We never have drug tests here in the engineering department because of all the anti-drug test nodes in the office. If we did we'd have to fire half the people who've designed our system architecture.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoRaspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They are tiny computers often used in Hackathons to make cool stuff.
Zeeshan: I used a Raspberry Pi to build a Google Glass that could emulate Game Boy Advance games.
Matt: Why would anyone want something like that.
Zeeshan: Lord knows but it won a prize at this Hackathon.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoWindows 10 Years Too Late
The latest operating system released by Microsoft, often joked about how late they were in getting it right.
Ricky: You buying Windows 10 Years Too Late? Sameer: Nah, I'm getting a Macbook Retina Air with whatever the hell it comes with.
HalfLife3 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 agoUnapologetically Plastic
Almost every tech billionaire in Silicon Valley.
Jony Ive, Travis Kalanick, Evan Spiegel, Eric Schmidt et al.
That_Guy over 9 years ago#ILookLikeAnEngineer
A popular hashtag meant to showcase Silicon Valley's diversity beyond the stereotype.
#ILookLikeAnEngineer has been really effective at breaking the stereotype about engineers. It's making the world a better place as a result.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoPornogaphy Leads to Innovation
The belief that software that allows high sharability of human sexual expression, grows and pushes internet technology forward. This notion is often applied to high res video streaming technology and VR apps.
Ronald: They say that the one thing that pushed high streaming 1080p content was the desire for triple xxx sites to have better selections and product. Even the Occulus president says they are allowing NSFW apps on Rift. Lewis: Pornography leads to innovation I suppose...
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoVersion Control
Basically means multiple people can go back to previous iterations of a product. This is important because if you release new code that destroys your product you can go back to the version that worked.
Often used in the descriptions of sites like Github, Bitbucket, etc.
Rob and Mike didn't use any version control software, so as soon as their intern pushed buggy code to their system they had to go offline for a week.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoAdsense
This is a product put out by Google that allows you to make money off the traffic on your website. It's basically one of the easiest ways to "sell out."
Rob: I hate all the targeted Ads your new website Charlie. Charlie: I love the money I'm getting off Adsense though, so fuck you.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoD2F ratio
D2F ratio or "dick to floor" ratio is used to determine the relationship between two or more men and the distance between their penises and the floor. Often used to calculate the most efficient way to jerk off men at TechCrunch Disrupt events.
Guy 1: How do we jerk off 4 men at the same time and dick swap them to maximize jerking?
Guy 2: Well we'd have to figure out the D2F ratio and group men based on that.
Original Jared over 9 years agoMedia Headliners
Products big companies keep in the Research and Development area of their company and display at an event for the pure purpose of garnering media attention. The products themselves are either set for release on a date far in the future or never at all.
Tai: Did you see the Google contact lens in the news? Kyrie: Meh, just a media headliner not set to come out for awhile.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoAugmented Reality
If you've never seen an augmented reality app before augmented reality is sort of like having helpful pop ups follow you in real life that are marketed to have a stronger use case than simply looking something up on your phone. They are normally seen through a headset or camera lens.
Google glass has made me incredibly disenchanted with augmented reality apps after having used the device for a long period of time. Every strong social use case out there seems to be a gross violation of privacy.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years ago
Company Info Session
When a company pays a university to have an hour to talk to students about why they should work and apply to their company. If the company is well known they normally collect alot of resumes during one of these sessions.
Jack: I went to the Google company info session for the free food, but was so enticed about what they had to say that I decided to give the recruiter my resume. Emma: You're full of shit. You went there like a shameless animal, sweet talking that recruiter like your life depended on it. I could smell the desperation from the other building.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoFree Pizza Lure
Luring college engineer and business dev candidates to one's job info session with free food, most commonly pizza.
Chad: Did you go to the Twitter Info Session. Laura: Yeah, I just went for the pizza though. I don't know why everyone here wants to work so badly at Twitter and Google.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoDo the Needful
Usually coined by Tech workers of East Indian descent, in context means I have to do what I have to do to get the job done or to keep my Boss from firing me.
"Yes, we have to do the Needful to beta test this new code by Friday"
Hammer over 9 years ago
Weiner Tweeting
Tweeting pictures of one's genetillia and messaging it to someone over Twitter. Coined after former U.S. House Representative Anthony Weiner, who famously tweeted a picture of his privates to a woman he was trying to impress.
Brad: I've been getting so many follows on my twitter account ever since I wrote that Medium article on quitting my job, that I now want to start Weiner Tweeting some of the hot new ladies I've inspired. Charlie: I don't know how you could be capable of writing something so popular but also think something like that would work.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoGoogle Doc Stealth Corresponsdence
Using Google Docs to relay private information between individuals.
I was so afraid that Lucy's boyfriend would find out about me and her meeting up at night, that I started setting up times to meet up using Google Docs, deleting every new message we received from one another.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoVR Legs
A metaphor describing one's comfort when using a VR headset.
Ron: I don't know how you're able to use Oculus for longer than an hour without wanting to throw up. Cindy: You just haven't gotten your VR legs yet. I've modded Skyrim and only play on my Oculus now.
covfefelord over 9 years ago
Only applies to esteemed organizations though ;)