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*Insert Company Name Here* Happy Hour
We will give you free booze to browse our app, have a positive impression of us, and meet other people doing the same thing.
You should come to our Product Hunt Happy Hour early this Thursday. There's normally a line wrapping around the building.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoEphemeral Messaging
Normally refers to modern chat services that delete the conversation users have between one another at some point in time.
I love ephemeral messaging services because I never have to feel conscious about how much I curse.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoCUI
Coding under the influence.
Last Tuesday, Jeremy decided to code from a bar near his house instead of going to work. His code was very sloppy so the PM on the team gave him a CUI warning.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoMaven
The go-to self-descriptor for social media marketing professionals in their 20-somethings. They, like, totally know social media and can tweet for your brand and stuff. Used interchangeably with guru, expert, ninja, etc.
I went through these résumés and threw out anyone who referred to themselves as a "social media maven."
supernovanGirl over 9 years agoLow Fidelity Prototype
Drawing what your app would look like on a bunch of paper and asking people to pretend it's a real app. This saves you the time of making something on your computer...(which ironically would actually take less time for alot of people).
My low fidelity prototype flew away when the wind got really strong when I was testing my app for hobos at Golden Gate Park.
HalfLife3 over 9 years agoServer Down Saturday
A Saturday night where a video game's server crashes and one has to go out and socialize with people in person.
We had a server down saturday this past weekend, so I went to Julia's party. It was the first time I had talked to a girl in real life in months.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoDuck Syndrome
The duck syndrome is where on the surface of things, someone seems normal and are floating along peacefully. However, the truth is that underneath the water the person is paddling feverishly to keep going.
People: Oh dude! Everything in the startup world seems fun!
You: Oh yeah man! I love it, it's super easy. *cries deeply inside*
Spshulem over 9 years agoNomophobia
The irrational and all-consuming fear of being out of cell phone contact.
Coined by British researchers. An abbreviation of no-mobile-phone-phobia.
"I left my phone at home this morning and I feel like I've lost a limb. I'm suffering from severe nomophobia." "When my battery hits 5% I get jittery. I must be suffering from nomophobia."
doctornomo over 9 years agoSingle Point of Failure
When your start-up has only one unisex toilet for the whole building.
Our single point of failure is backed up to "the cloud" (or "the butt")
FuctCo5K over 9 years agoThree Commas Club
Three commas to imply a billion dollars as $1,000,000,000 has 3 commas. To be in the three commas club is to be a billionaire.
Richard’s literalness remains the one thing to rattle Russ. “You know what has three commas in it, Richard?” “A sentence with two appositive phrases in it?”
arunaharsa over 9 years agoDomain Squatting
Buying and keeping a domain that one will never use, with the hope that one day they will be emailed a high (often over inflated) offer for it for purchase.
Ryan: How the hell did Mark buy that giant house? I thought his startup failed? Lewis: He bought a bunch of domains in the 90s and supposedly sold alot of them now. Have you heard of hillaryclinton.com? Ryan: Of course... Lewis: Well it was originally owned by him.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoWearable Baiting
Ostentatiously sporting wearable tech with the hope that someone will ask you about it.
I can't hang out Ranvid anymore. He still wears his Google Glass and an iWatch on each hand hoping random people would talk to him, just wearable baiting so hard.
GoogleEngineer over 9 years agoHovering Art Director
Anyone who stands over you and tells you to do something on your screen.
Originates from ad marketing but applies to design and development.
Ted: "Click on that and drag it to the left. Great, now move that down. More. More. Good."
Nancy: "Stop smudging my screen, you hovering art director!"
RobotCowboy over 9 years agoThe Steve Jobs Diet
A dietary regimen containing mostly fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables and grains with a higher to average ratio of apples and carrots. Absolutely no animal products.
I decided to go on the Steve Jobs Diet because Steve is my icon. That's why there are only apples and carrots in the house.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoOutside-In Engineer
An engineer who doesn't display fear, anger, happiness, sadness or disgust, 5 key emotions popularized in Pixar's Inside Out.
After being toured around Google X, Jack determined that most of the engineers seemed like outside-in engineers who didn't reveal a single emotion in his presence.
yungsnuggie over 9 years agoRubber Duck Debugging
Many programmers have had the experience of explaining a programming problem to someone else, possibly even to someone who knows nothing about programming, and then hitting upon the solution in the process of explaining the problem. In describing what the code is supposed to do and observing what it actually does, any incongruity between these two becomes apparent.
"Hey dude, are you talking to someone?" Nah dude, I'm just rubber duck debugging. "Oh cool, thought you were crazy."
Spshulem over 9 years agoDisruptive
An adjective to describe a start-up or technology that thrashes resources in the economy, because causing people to lose their means of income and scotching the value of resources is super fun and awesome.
This disruptive vegetable/fruit-picking technology will help migrant laborers lose their jobs so they can go back to their homeland and get decapitated by drug cartels.
FuctCo5K over 9 years agoCulture Reset
The CEO's or CTO's reason for firing half of the engineering department.
"Steve, with our new culture reset, we're going to have to let you go. You just didn't fit the culture."
planningtime over 9 years agoWho's Hiring
A once-a-month opportunity for startups and tech companies get their grimy hands on the website HackerNews and post their job listings. Qualifications often include being a code ninja (http://svdictionary.com/words/code-ninja) or a 10x engineer (http://svdictionary.com/words/10x-engineer) for little pay and long hours because you get equity, yo.
HackerNews: 'Who's hiring?'
Every startup: 'we are and we're the best bc of culture and stuff, yo.'
zander over 9 years agoAdding 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."
RobotCowboy over 9 years ago
I would actually call this "Paper Prototype". Low-Fidelity can be digital.