So they've gone from saying it should be $100 to $80, nice to see we've entered the bargaining phase. I don't think they're smart enough to do it but the meltdowns from these fuckers if GTA6 shipped at $60 would be a…
The engineers who get hired fastest are not the ones who watched the most content. They are the ones who broke things and fixed them. They built something ugly, shipped it, and learned from the mess. Consumption do…
Verb. To release software to users. The verb every engineer wants to be using ('we shipped Friday') and dreads when paired with rollback. Aggressive Silicon Valley register; the opposite of 'stuck in review'.
We shipped, monitor's clean, going for a beer.
Shipped means: Verb. To release software to users. The verb every engineer wants to be using and dreads when paired with rollback. Aggressive Silicon Valley register; the opposite of 'stuck in review'.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
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In software: to release/launch. "Ship it" = "deploy it." Standard tech-industry usage.
A call to release code to production. Prioritizes getting in front of users over chasing perfection. "Ship it" is the engineering equivalent of ripping off a band-aid — enabled by feature flags, gradual rollouts, and a willingness to fix forward rather than delay.
Triumph phrase used the moment a feature reaches production. Often paired with a meme-image of a launch button being slammed. Internal-team language; never used in customer comms.
Verb: to actively hope two people (real or fictional) end up together. Noun: the pairing itself. Shipping carries commitment — you track the relationship, rewatch scenes, get invested in whether they're together by the finale. Any universe with two attractive characters generates ships within hours.
Conservatives should all be sealed inside boxes and shipped to an address on the flip side of their flat Earth.
Shipped means: Verb. To release software to users. The verb every engineer wants to be using and dreads when paired with rollback. Aggressive Silicon Valley register; the opposite of 'stuck in review'.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
shipped means: Verb. To release software to users. The verb every engineer wants to be using and dreads when paired with rollback. Aggressive Silicon Valley register; the opposite of 'stuck in. Register: neutral, standard English. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
“So they've gone from saying it should be $100 to $80, nice to see we've entered the bargaining phase. I don't think they're smart enough to do it but the meltdowns from these fuckers if GTA6 shipped at $60 would be amazing.”
“The engineers who get hired fastest are not the ones who watched the most content. They are the ones who broke things and fixed them. They built something ugly, shipped it, and learned from the mess. Consumption does not build confidence. Creation does.”
“Conservatives should all be sealed inside boxes and shipped to an address on the flip side of their flat Earth.”
“Day 182: Shipped Haris drift detection. My AI bots used to silently break. Now I get alerted. One step closer to reliable AI agents.”
“just shipped a new elfmem animation. it's a video showing memory blocks arriving, being ranked and linked by an agent called alv. what got me excited: alv wrote the tool that made the animation. so this video is basically alv documenting its own memory system. pretty wild.”