Show HN: Silicon Valley Dictionary – Urban Dictionary Meets Silicon Valley

[bkjelden]

10x Engineer: A developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up.

[zazpowered]

Feel free to add your own definitions to the site. Each word can have multiple definitions attached to it.

[kilimchoi]

Hi everyone, the other day while watching Silicon Valley TV show, my friend thought that it would be hilarious and educational to create a website like urban dictionary for all the lingos from the show. So we created one. Hope you enjoy it, feel free to add some words on the website and let us know what you think!

[stevebot]

Thanks, awesome job. I'm loving the definitions I'm seeing so far. How long did it take to create this?

[minimaxir]

TechCrunch posted a good list of startup lingo last year.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/15/how-to-speak-startup/

[zazpowered]

I remember reading that article when it came out. A lot of good ones in there

[marvel_boy]

Really like this one: Y combinator => A label you add to your startup's intro (if chosen) that your company exchanges 7% of protected equity to arbitrary increase your valuation with.

[gil]

Is this open source and available anywhere? I'd like to use it to create something similar for the jargon within my group of friends.

[mimighost]

Chinese(Pan-Asian, whatever), don't burn trash anymore for quite some time as far as I can remember, although I grew up in urban area, which might be a little different.

Honestly, I don't know where this stereotype comes from, and why the show runners choose to pick this one opposed to many others out there which might be even more interesting, IMO.

[JesperRavn]

It's hard to make humorous shows without exposing some group to ridicule. While males are of course an acceptable target, but then the show looks too "PC". So in order to show that we're totally cool and not PC, a safe target is needed.

[Hascheme]

I can't seem to find the search button. Also, can someone define what "side effects" are, please. I am studying Scheme now and I don't understand the relevance of "side effects" to Scheme or anything else.

[JoshTriplett]

> Also, can someone define what "side effects" are, please. I am studying Scheme now and I don't understand the relevance of "side effects" to Scheme or anything else.

Something done by code that isn't represented by the return value of that code. For instance, if you define a function that changes a global variable and then returns double its argument, the change to the global variable is a "side effect". See also "pure functional" (code which doesn't have side effects).

That's not the kind of definition this dictionary is going for, though; that's tech jargon, not startup jargon.

[zazpowered]

Search is going to be a feature for sure

[ssc242]

+1 on search button. #1 feature request.

[HappyTypist]

Just a suggestion: Make signing up and signing in easier. Just have a username/password, don't ask for email and don't make the user repeat. If they make a typo when registering, they can make a new account.

Your site is very niche, meaning that fewer visitors will agree to invest time into registering to upvote / submit.

[beenpoor]

Pretty funny, some of these. I added couple. How long did it take to build this ?

[jlgaddis]

I expected more profanity.

[zazpowered]

Feel free to submit your own definitions. It works in a way similar to Reddit/Hacker News. Anyone is free to submit new definitions and rankings are based on upvotes/time. We are going to remove any definitions that are blatantly offensive.

[davidgerard]

Scrum-Agile/English Dictionary http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/594955.html

[Rainymood]

Some of these are really funny, thank you for makin this :)

[ScottBurson]

"Acquihire" is misspelled "acquhire".

[zazpowered]

Fixed it

[neonbat]

You know what would make the examples really legit? Instead of generic names the community could use names of famous people.

[starshadowx2]

"It's no secret that Paul Graham secretly aspires to be Ron Conway by the way his eyes beam feverishly whenever interviewing him."

[michaelochurch]

I put a couple of things in but they weren't related to the show so much as the Valley itself.

Where's the downvote button, btw? Someone wrote that "Silicon Valley billionaires" are less douchey than regular billionaires and that shit ain't true.

[untilHellbanned]

"Michaelochurch it" or "MOCh it" (pronounced "maach") needs to be in the SV dictionary. This is obviously for taking any conversation and jacknifing it to absurdity. Fits very well in that it sounds similar to regular mocking, but is way more intense and is where one has full intention of hellbanning themself just cause. Sometimes conflated with "going nuclear". Love me some MOCh.

[zazpowered]

We are thinking of solutions for these. Comments might be a solution

[howabouta]

New entry: HNTARD defn. Pointless comments about the latest tech equivalent of a piece of shiny lint.