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Show HN: Silicon Valley Dictionary – Urban Dictionary Meets Silicon Valley
- Hascheme 11y agoI 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.
- ssc242 11y ago+1 on search button. #1 feature request.
- zazpowered 11y agoSearch is going to be a feature for sure
- JoshTriplett 11y ago> 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.
- marvel_boy 11y agoReally 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.
- kilimchoi 11y agoHi 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 11y agoThanks, awesome job. I'm loving the definitions I'm seeing so far. How long did it take to create this?
- kilimchoi 11y agoI believe the whole website was built in a few hours. But, it took us a few days to add the definitions.
- pnevmatico 11y agoWhat platform have you used for the website? Very cool idea, BTW.
- kilimchoi 11y agowe used ruby on rails
- starshadowx2 11y ago"It's no secret that Paul Graham secretly aspires to be Ron Conway by the way his eyes beam feverishly whenever interviewing him."
- jlgaddis 11y agoI expected more profanity.
- zazpowered 11y agoFeel 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.
- JesperRavn 11y agoI found the Jian Yang entry offensive. Within liberal culture, it's typical to allow offensive stereotypes against Asians, on the basis that it is actually mocking the stereotype, not Asians. But this is inconsistent, since no one would accept this logic if it were applied to Black people or gays.
- CONTRARlAN 11y agoAre you offended by the definition of Jian Yang, or the actual character in the show? That's like being offended by Wikipedia's entry on the KKK because it accurately describes their position. Anyway–it's not stereotyping Asians, it's stereotyping Chinese-national engineers in Silicon Valley. That's a pretty specific cultural subset. > no one would accept this logic if it were applied to Black people or gays. No? Because comedies have never had characters like Tracy Jordan or Franck Eggelhoffer?
- JesperRavn 11y agoTracy Jordan's entire character is not being a Black stereotype, and making fun of the discrepancy between his character and the stereotype. Jian Yang is an Asian stereotype.
- howabouta 11y agoHow about a new entry on the site for 'JesperRavn' defn. Someone who makes pointless moans on HN.
- mimighost 11y agoChinese(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 11y agoIt'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.
- mimighost 11y agoActually, I am OK with certain stereotyping, because that is how comedy works. However, burning trash is not remotely funny and not true anymore, it is not representative at all. In that case, it is not even a good stereotype, it just lazy thinking & writing because they don't bother to understand what it is like to be an Asian nerd.
- rgbrenner 11y agoSo is this article wrong[0]? Landfills currently handle roughly half of China's MSW, while only about 10% is incinerated. Official credo suggests that landfills will continue to play a dominant role. But Beijing's push to increase the share of burned waste is unmistakable: a central target calls for 30% of MSW to be treated by waste-to-energy incineration by 2030. And late last year they opened the worlds biggest incinerator outside Beijing[1]. In the article[0], it says only 2% was burned in 1990.. so it seems this is a new initiative. 0. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/04/dirty-truth-chinas-incinerators http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/04/dirty-tru... 1. http://shanghaiist.com/2014/10/08/worlds-biggest-trash-incinerator-beijing.php http://shanghaiist.com/2014/10/08/worlds-biggest-trash-incin...
- michaelochurch 11y agoI 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.
- zazpowered 11y agoWe are thinking of solutions for these. Comments might be a solution
- JoshTriplett 11y agoRegarding the other branch of this subthread, consider banning "attack definitions", which exist solely to attack a specific named person. Also, in addition to downvoting, you need some way to flag effectively identical definitions for merging. And to avoid more such definitions, you should tie search to addition, so that if it looks like there's an existing definition for a term (or close to the suggested term), you show that and confirm that the user meant to submit a new definition.
- zazpowered 11y agoGood suggestions. Merging and something to prevent duplicates during submissing is definitely something we want to add
- untilHellbanned 11y ago"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.
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- ScottBurson 11y ago"Acquihire" is misspelled "acquhire".
- zazpowered 11y agoFixed it
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- minimaxir 11y agoTechCrunch posted a good list of startup lingo last year. http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/15/how-to-speak-startup/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/15/how-to-speak-startup/
- zazpowered 11y agoI remember reading that article when it came out. A lot of good ones in there
- bkjelden 11y ago10x Engineer: A developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up.
- zazpowered 11y agoFeel free to add your own definitions to the site. Each word can have multiple definitions attached to it.
- beenpoor 11y agoPretty funny, some of these. I added couple. How long did it take to build this ?
- davidgerard 11y agoScrum-Agile/English Dictionary http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/594955.html http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/594955.html
- neonbat 11y agoYou know what would make the examples really legit? Instead of generic names the community could use names of famous people.
- howabouta 11y agoNew entry: HNTARD defn. Pointless comments about the latest tech equivalent of a piece of shiny lint.
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- gil 11y agoIs this open source and available anywhere? I'd like to use it to create something similar for the jargon within my group of friends.
- HappyTypist 11y agoJust 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.
- Rainymood 11y agoSome of these are really funny, thank you for makin this :)