A New Devil's Dictionary: Sample 0001

There's a lot of technical jargon used here in Silicon Valley. For the past few years, I've been collecting and translating these terms into a new Devil's Dictionary.

Here's a small sample.

A/B testing - (n) If it's not one thing, it's another.

A/B/n testing - (n) If it's not one thing or another, then it's something else.

A ton of - (adj) Phrase used as a synonym of "many" in order to prove that you're not a nerd.

Access - (n) The ability to either read, comment on, or steal someone else's work.

Access - (v) Sufficiently-technical sounding synonym for "to open."

I'll post more next week.