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Vanity Metrics

Useless data that looks good but does not necessarily correlate real success.

Bob: Our website gets a million views daily!
Mark: How many of them are you converting to paid users?
Bob: Well.. we are still working on that.

Added by serge serge over 9 years ago

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Rental Property

The only real way to make money in Silicon Valley.

Owning Silicon Valley rental property sure beats working for a living!

Added by FuctCo5K FuctCo5K over 9 years ago

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    Adding Wheels To A Moving Car

    Expecting the design or development team to scope a feature without definition or complete explanation while the product is being built.

    Them: "How long would it take you to add this feature to the product?"
    You: "I'm not sure I understand what the product and feature even is, let alone how to estimate it."
    Them: "Well, just give me a ballpark..."
    You: "That would be like adding wheels to a moving car."

    Added by RobotCowboy RobotCowboy over 9 years ago

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      MD Daydreamer

      A doctor who has passive regrets on his life choices and wonders on the inside whether he or she had what it took to start his or her own business. They makes it a priority to take the opportunity to pitch patients who work in software (regardless of what company they work for) in between his or her diagnosis and sometimes at dinner parties.

      I stopped going to Dr. Jacobson who is an MD Daydreamer. He always pitches me his idea for canine heart monitors that sends out tweets once a day.

      Added by yungsnuggie yungsnuggie over 9 years ago

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        Big Data

        When your database takes at least 2 minutes to export to a CSV.

        Engineer: "Our mongo collection hit 1 million records a few moments ago."
        Hiring Manager: "Great, now I can post this position for a Big Data Engineer on Hacker News."

        Added by planningtime planningtime over 9 years ago