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Twitter Ghosting
Taking the identity of a friend or somewhat famous person and creating a fan Twitter account of them.
I twitter ghosted as my friend Lewis for years just writing things he'd say to me during class. My troll account of him has more follows than my own.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoData Scientist
A statistician who lives in the Bay Area.
Q: How many Data Scientists does it take to implement a Spark stack?
A: All of them, since at first they tend to have a Hive mind.
justpivot over 9 years agoA/B Testing
A method of experimentation to test which products, services, or marketing tactics return higher conversion rates, customer satisfaction, sales, etc. Used to weed out shitty products or services and prioritize one, better product or service.
Guy 1: Hey we have two email newsletters. Which one do you think would return a more sales?
Guy 2: Don't know, let's use some A/B testing and see which one performs better.
Original Jared over 9 years agoFingertip Like
When you accidentally like someone else's facebook post while scrolling through your feed on a mobile device.
Jeanie: Oh my god! I just accidentally fingertip liked my exe's profile picture. I really hope that he didn't notice it.
svhunt over 9 years agoTo Compile
When your machine is assembling the information and commands you've written. If there are no errors that prevent this from happening, your program is normally ready to be tested.
Matt: No errors! My code compiles. This shit works. Zeeshan: Let's pistol ship it and call it a day.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoClass Shopping
Signing up for more courses than you intend to take to scope out whether you want to keep them on your schedule.
Jack: How was your first day?
Pete: Pretty good, went class shopping and decided to enroll in CS150, CS162, and CS188. Dropping CS170, Math 55, and PhysicsH7C though.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoMachine Learning
It's exactly how it sounds. It's a subfield of computer science dealing in pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence.
In Silicon Valley, people hail this subfield as the leading frontier for innovation that is applicable in almost every company. Machine Learning engineers are very high in demand as the work they produce allows for products to adapt and compute at higher levels than humans can.
Jack: The best jeopordy player and the best chess player in the world are computers.
James: That's the power of machine learning, being able to adapt to situations and read more steps ahead than a human can.
Jack: Yeah but I bet he can't FEEL like I can.
James: How do you feel?
Jack: I feel like shit actually...
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoFounder Sympathy Blogging
When a semi-high profile startup founder writes an incredibly emotional (and overly dramatic) piece about how hard their lives were to humanize them and make them seem accessible.
My friend Jerry Lee Kai was founder sympathy blogging the other day and to his surprise it got incredibly popular. He had to follow up that later that he wasn't as damaged as the article made him out to be.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoPintern
A title interns at the company Pinterest give themselves when joining the company for an internship.
Along with the intellectual prestige that goes along with working at a brand named company like this, it's mostly used to make the intern feel cute/happy go lucky.
Vanessa: I interned at Microsoft in Seattle this year on the Bing team. It was pretty sweet. Whad you do Pete? Pete: I'm GLAD you asked Vanessa! I was a PINTERN this summer. I'd go to my work in my pajamas and drink hot cocoas all day, while developing some pretty pintresting stuff. Vanessa: Fantastic...
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoNo Money Mo' Problems
This is an expression often used by startups who're running out of their funding.
It's the antithesis of the idea propagated by the east coast rapper Biggie Smalls who is sometimes remembered for his song "Mo Money Mo Problems."
Zeeshan: Alright I want the Vesace leather over by the Tom Ford couch. Also want that 4k TV on top of the shark tank and we need more Blue Bottle coffee beans for the coffee maker. Matt: Yo! We need to use this money properly. We need to hire engineers! Zeeshan: Nah don't worry I just sold my website cats4justice.com for 500k and invested it back in the company. I thought ahead, no money, mo' problems. Matt: Sweet. Yeah Biggie didn't know what he was talking about. West coast 5eva.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoThe Matrix Delusion
When someone new begins their study in computer science thinking it will be as cool as the scenes denoting hacking and coding in the film "The Matrix."
James: Dude what the fuck is this?
Lloyd: It's called Eclipse.
James: But where are all the green numbers. Where's the console where I can issue my commands to hack things?!
Lloyd: You've fallen for the matrix delusion. This is gonna be a rough year.
James: What the fuck is the point of this... I'm applying to Haas.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoShallow Alto
Another name for Palo Alto, denoting how shallow and superficial many (but not all) of it's inhabitants are.
Winston: Stanford is so much better than Cal. We're higher ranked and our football team actually wins games. The people who go to your school are plebeians. Steve: Oh yeah! Well... Winston: I like how your school spends so much of my taxpayer money on that pathetic group of children you call a football team. Your stadium can't cover up how much they suck. Steve: Just get outta here man. Go back to Shallow Alto. We got heart here. Winston: Sleeping on the floor and smoking weed all day doesn't mean you guys have heart. Steve: Get back to Shallow ALTO man!!! Just because we don't get sexually aroused every time we see someone driving a nice car, pay higher prices for shitty property, and judge others solely for their wealth and education doesn't make us any worse.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoThe Stack Overflow Scramble
When your compiler throws an error that you have no idea what the fuck it means. You then copy and paste it in stack overflow hoping for answers. One's heart rate tends to increase when their new to this. Soon it becomes a routine and one does this repeatedly until they figure out what's happening.
I spent the whole day stack overflow scrambling, trying to figure out why I kept getting this thing called a "Null Pointer Exception."
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoStopping Out
This is essentially the same thing as dropping out, except you still have the option of returning to the school you dropped out of even after a couple of years.
Most top universities have policies allowing students to "stop out." All "dropping out" is essentially "stopping out" the major difference being that the "drop out" doesn't return.
Jack stopped out of Berkeley after YC funded his startup, but ended up returning to school after he realized that it wasn't for him.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoInvestor Ambushing
Camping out in front of the exit of a speaking event or the office of an investment firm to get minimal face time with them to either pitch or set up a meeting.
Leo is shameless. He investor ambushes in Palo Alto on Tuesdays and Thursdays trying to pitch his women only dating app.
HalfLife3 over 9 years ago
Rainbow Bike Contraband
Stolen company bikes being seen riden outside of the Mountain View HQ.
I saw a group of dudes riding rainbow bike contraband through Oakland today. Yeah they're a bunch of dick programmers who thought it would be funny to steal Google bikes and ride them through the East Bay.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoHackathon
A period of time usually around 24 hours, in which teams of programmers and designers build out a working project and display it to judges at the end.
How Hackathons are judged vary completely on the theme and personal preference making it an extremely relative competition.
Sloan: What are you building for this years hackathon? Jim: I'm building a Python interpreter. Sloan: Why? Jim: Because I think a robot who could communicate with snakes and humans could be incredibly useful. Sloan: ...
yungsnuggie over 9 years ago
Google 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 agoEast Bay Startups
Despite mainstream view, they indeed exist are are growing more and more prevalent. With the absurd prices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, areas in Downtown Oakland, Emeryville, and pockets of Berkeley have seen increased growth in new company offices.
Many also consider living in the East Bay incredibly convenient, despite it's reputation for crime. It is often asked whether east bay startups should be considered apart of "Silicon Valley," to which many reply..."meh close enough."
Winston: Where is your startup office located good sir. James: Oakland son. Winston: I am not familiar with this Oak-Land. How far is it from Sand Hill Road?
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoOak-land. nice
Usually by coders that have no idea if there is any meaningful market for their hack.