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Worder
Anyone who use personal computers only for writing, just like a typewriter machine.
"Do you think he can upload these on the website?"
"Nah, he's just a worder!"
iamDeveloper over 9 years agoBFI Operator
Brute Force and Ignorance. A BFI operator is someone (usually in a corporate software development environment) who uses set policies and methodologies fanatically while studiously avoiding any rational thought. BFI operators do not last long in the Valley.
Dave: Did you see how Tom re-instantiates the same class each time he uses it, rather than referencing it? A total BFI operator!
Larry: That's how he used to do it at Redmond.
Steve: What's he doing in the Valley?
doctorgee over 9 years agoThe Does It Exist Check
The process after one comes up with a startup idea in which a person vehemently searches Google and the iOS app store to see if their idea exists some way, shape, or form.
Steve: I came up with 10 startup ideas today.
Zeeshan: Did they pass the "Does it Exist Check?"
Steve: Only one did.
Zeeshan: What is it?
Steve: A social network in which one can allow their pets to interact with each other online
Zeeshan: So you mean a Facebook for cats and dogs?
Steve: Birds and fish too.
yungsnuggie over 9 years ago
Slacktivism
Supporting a cause in the laziest way possible, usually on social media. You feel like you're helping without getting out of your chair.
"I see in my feed you retweeted every single ice bucket challenge video. You should get an award for your slacktivism."
healthdatatom over 9 years agothis one's great
Thought this could be on Slack which would make audience even smaller. "I've done my part in the movement since I discussed it in my private Slack group."
Quoralin
Starting a fight on Quora. Combines the words quarrel and Quora.
Julie has been quoralin with a bunch of university students on her laptop all day.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoGoing Incognito
Going off the map for a period of time to peruse places in an unrecognizable fashion. This is normally done to satiate a curiosity of yours that you are to ashamed for even a single friend to be aware of.
This originates from the incognito tab on most internet browsers. Going incognito prevents any cookies or search engine history from being saved.
Matt: Where the hell is Joey?
Zeeshan: On my Facebook timeline, I think I saw him like and then unlike the status of this peculiar store in Mission. I bet he's going incognito for a couple of days.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoDigital Wallet Startups
Startups that pitch never having to carry a wallet again. It's a brilliant pitch, so brilliant in fact that there are probably about 20 of them that have raised funding. Sometimes one may wonder if these investors had heard of the other dozen startups doing the exact same thing.
Jack decided to start digital wallet company after forgetting his wallet in his apartment, and having a huge caffeine headache. He came to his sense after Googling in and realizing there were already enough companies trying to do it, including Google itself.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoUninstalled
Fired or laid off.
"Jeff was here last week, but he was uninstalled on Monday."
iamDeveloper over 9 years agoAlternative usage is to show the world what great taste you have about apps. "I had to uninstall Yahoo Weather. Graphics overdone."
Valley Anxiety
The constant need for tech industry employees to keep interviewing (and often switching jobs). Just because everyone else around are switching, or starting their own companies, people in valley keep on interviewing to chase their "passion". Thanks for the inundation of requests from LinkedIn recruiters!
"Did you hear Sam joined Hooli! I heard he had competing offers from Pied Piper and Aviato also!"
"Didn't he start working with Endframe only last year?"
"Valley Anxiety man!!"
ankur over 9 years agoThis happens all the time!
Wikipedia Kid
That co-worker who doesn’t really know the job, but pretends to by just slapping together everyone else’s contributions.
Illustration of a Wikipedia Kid (from “The IT Crowd”):
Mr Reynholm (the big boss): Jen, did I just see you googling “IT manager”?
Jen (the IT manager): Um…
doctorgee over 9 years agoLemming Clicker
Someone who will click on any link they are sent, often happily entering their banking passwords as well.
Dave: So how do we leverage our mailing database to drive adoption?
Larry: We could email them an invitation link.
Steve: That will get the lemming clickers, but the majority won't click through.
doctorgee over 9 years agoCollege Dropout
A complete wildcard. They are either genius level smart or are biting off more they can chew. In the case of the latter, they have either watched too many Peter Thiel talks that didn't apply to them, watched The Social Network more than 2 times, or are not familiar with the terms on this website.
Like I used to go to Davis, but now I'm a college dropout. It's just that school was holding me back you know? Like Zuck in the Social Network, I'm just way smarter than everyone and girls don't get me. I got my iPod on Kanye West's College Dropout album too cuz that's what I relate too and he's pretty much singing about me.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoMarketroid
The smooth-talking member of the marketing department who signs up users by promising that the next version of the product will have features which are unplanned, extremely difficult to implement, and/or in violation of the laws of physics. By Thursday.
Dave: Did you see that Tom promised the client that end-to-end encryption would be in the next release?!
Larry: But we don't control the user's operating system - how is that even possible?
Steve: Somebody better give that marketroid a crash course in reality.
doctorgee over 9 years agoOnly New Friends
A habit alot of founders make (with exception to the people they work with) to only hang out with new people or acquaintances because their old friends are negative as shit. This is the opposite of the hip hop theme propagated by Drakes "No New Friends," track.
Steve (at home): Brad never answers my calls anymore. I bet he's having a rough time. I'm going to talk to him for 3 hours next time I see him about how bad his life probably is going to be and try to convince us to join us at Task Rabbit. Brad (at bar): Fuck Steve. Only new friends.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoDO a startup
Something wantrepenurs or new silicon valley enthusiasts say in trying to convey "working on a startup" or "starting a business."
Ryan: I graduated from business school. Lets DO a startup guys. Menlo: Get the fuck out of here. Startups aren't something you DO.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoSweat Equity
A modern socially acceptable form of labor exploitation where the allure of an infinitesimally small probability of success entices normally intelligent people to freely exchange their time, skills and social capital for the ridiculously accessible status of "working on a startup."
Typically equity-for-anything, though the most vivid examples are commission-only sales roles: if you take on all of the up front risk to get people interested in our product (with zero effort from us), you might make a little money in the process.
svbiz over 9 years agoMonetization
Modifying a free site or service to make money, usually after building a user base.
"Hey, our users love the cat pictures. Now that we have them hooked, let's talk monetization."
"Great, how about we insert a bunch of annoying pop-up video ads?"
healthdatatom over 9 years agoMedium Self-Help
A genre of of Medium articles aiming to simultaneously enrich the readers lives and indirectly boost a first-time writers confidence and popularity.
They can range from articles on how to have better relationships with the people around them to how to handle startup stress. Normally everything is anecdotal and nothing is really verifiable.
Zeeshan: Check out my new medium article, "How to Passion Your Way to Success."
Matt: That title...what does it even mean? 50 retweets already?
Zeeshan: Nobody knows what it means. But it's provocative!
Matt: What...
Zeeshan: It gets the people going.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoTupac Startup
An incredibly promising new company that unexpectedly dies at it's prime.
I heard the founders fucking hated each other. So even though their company was doing pretty well they became a tupac startup.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agohahaha
haha. I do this so much