On: Twilio Is Crushing It: 150K Devs, 1.5M Phone Calls/Day, 500M Total Phone Calls

[DHowett]

What exactly are they crushing? Is something here being physically compacted?

If not, can we crush the use of "crushing it?" It's 2012. "Crushing it" isn't any better now than "killing it" was in 2011.

[petercooper → DHowett]

Quick. To the code dojo, to crush down and hustle some new paradigms ninja-style before things blow up!

[andybak → DHowett]

Being not from the West Coast of the USA or not in my early 20s or for some other reason I really had no idea whether it was a good thing or a bad thing to be 'crushing it'.

In which social group is this a commonly understood phrase and could you advise me on whether I should start dropping it into conversation to impress my peers.

[josegonzalez → DHowett]

It's a metaphor. Quit raining on my startup troll parade.

[DHowett → josegonzalez]

What's it a metaphor for?

Crushing things?

[Jd → DHowett]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crushing%20it

I suspect that 'crushing it' first referred to standard usage of the male sexual organ and later was extended to other usages.

[James_Duval → DHowett]

Crushing the obstacles in your path?