Definition of techie
: a person who is very knowledgeable or enthusiastic about technology and especially high technology
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San Francisco techies grouse about near-misses with aggressive riders.
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Some of the techie and start-up types housed at WeWork aren’t facing customers all day, so don’t always have the same standards.
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Born among the techies in Silicon Valley, these givers insist on results and that their dollars do the most good possible.
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The company’s Burbank headquarters is like a techie wedding of Q’s lab from James Bond and Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.
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Some organizers view them as recruiting opportunities, others as opportunities to evangelize their company’s technology platforms, and others simply want to be associated with something cool and techie.
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The 17-year-old techie created CopStop, an app that helps kids avoid police brutality, at his second hackathon.
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One example of this culture shift, as reported by the BBC, are weekly meetings of young techies in Berlin.
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Drivers of change have countered that expectations of what techies should be like, what backgrounds they're supposed have, and how hostile their work environment is are the real systemic problems.
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Origin and Etymology of techie
by shortening & alteration from technician
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: someone who knows a lot about technology
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