Techy in a sentence as an adjective

Anecdote: You don't need to be a techy to notice the scrolling smoothness. This is the reason my mother now owns a 4S instead of a Droid 2.

And this may not always be good, especially for a techy - there seem to be more introverts among us. I would have called myself an introvert.

If they're going to market a product like that it's going to be to a pretty techy crowd and they should get their terminology right.

Where's Google's suite of content creation apps that "non-techy" people can explore to express their creativity?

It's not about being able to talk shot for shot with a super-techy coder. It's about not being the kind of person who throws his hands up in the air and sets limits to what he can or can't do, or will or won't do.

Engaging in a wild HN thread, full of well meaning but varied techy suggestions/speculation might not be the best approach right now. Have some friends sift through it for good information and disengage.

This will satisfy the needs of all my immediate non-techy family members. And I won't get the monthly calls about malware anymore.

Now I do IT strategy, data governance, business analysis, as well as the fun techy stuff that I choose to focus on. Point is this: if i wanted to, I could just be the business guy that most people want to be.

Even for very techy audiences, a lot of people actually enjoy getting email. We can know this with certainty because they will open the emails, they will click on things in them, and then they will buy when you tell them to buy.

From a non-techy perspective, nothing's really happening. Barring any Samsung Galaxy fans in Europe who saw the Tab delayed a few weeks.

So he is a techy turned bureaucrat, turned activist, turned politician.

Among the hip, young, techy people at a startup, it is assumed QR codes are for technically-illiterate old people who don't know what a URL is. Among well-dressed, professional adults, it is assumed they are for all the young, hip people with their smartphone addictions.

As I grew into my techy career and interests, I needed it less and less. I hope it's not viewed as complaining or whatnot, but I do wonder if anyone else avoids Slashdot in 2011 almost purely because of the commenters' obnoxiousness.

Simply because a techy is good with computers doesn't mean he somehow is less able to interact with the real world or understand customers. If you are buffering your technical team away communication with real customers, you are going to fail.

Your Nexus has a fixed amount of space and your apps just seamlessly use it for you without you ever having to worry about files or volumes or any of that techy nonsense left over from the paleolithic era of computing. With a Nexus you know exactly how much storage you get upfront and you can decide whats the right size for you.

Otherwise I rather like the advice, although if you're not marketing to techy people like web designers I would suggest getting a great deal more comfortable with SEO than this would suggest because Google is the Internet.

There's a great section in Neal Stephenson's Anathem where the science-y younger brother is speaking to his older sister, who's mechanically talented but not very techy. He says there's always a better way to build something, that you can always take the inefficiency out of whatever system you're working with.

There's also a tendency for us techy types to get caught in our own little bubble - I get my news from HN Reddit and Twitter, so my view on how people use these services is clouded. It's like when a journalist starts using Twitter and writes about how "everybody is obsessed with tweeting, you can only send short messages, therefore the art of meaningful conversation is dead".

It's due in large part to the how fashionable it is to be "dumb", and "non-techy", and "etc" that our public policy w/ respect to science and technology is such a junk show. The only way out of the current patent mess and into some semblance of a functioning society which can actually enjoy the fruits of technology and invention is people like this Judge who have "learned to code".

NSA Report: "User noir_lord has an interest in privacy, weapons, insurgencies and excellent technical skills, user noir_lord should be monitored" Where in reality I'm a 34 year old web developer from the North of England who enjoys history, techy stuff and playing with my cats.

Cool idea, but it seems to target a pretty narrow demographic: - wealthy enough to live in NYC and buy at least \n one cup of coffee every single work day\n\n - cheap enough to want to save a few bucks a month on coffee\n\n - can't be bothered to carry a credit card around every day\n \n - can be bothered to carry a smart phone around every day\n\n - trendy enough to frequent NYC coffee shops\n\n - untrendy enough to be seen using "coupons" in public\n \n - techy enough to consider installing a coffee buying app \n\n - non-techy enough to not have built a crazy $10k \n coffee roasting-grinding-brewing setup at home\n\n\nFortunately for them, starting in NYC, that still leaves around thirty million potential customers. It'll be fun watching this play out.

Techy definitions

adjective

easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"