Drug Dealers: Refer to their clients as "users"
Software Developers: Refer to their clients as "users".
Drug Dealers: "The first one's free!"
Software Developers: "Download a free trial version..."
Drug Dealers: Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff).
Software Developers: Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code).
Drug Dealers: Strange jargon:
"Stick"
"Rock"
"Wrap"
"E"
"Stash"
"Drive by"
"Hit (LSD)"
"Source"
"The Pigs"
Software Developers: Strange jargon:
"SCSI"
"RTFM"
"Packet"
"C"
"Cache"
"CTRL ALT DEL"
"Hit (WWW)"
"Source-code"
"Microsoft"
Drug Dealers: Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
Software Developers: Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
Drug Dealers: Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn't work they want to kill you.
Software Developers: Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn't work they want to kill you.
Drug Dealers: Job is assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent product.
Software Developers: Job is assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent products.
Drug Dealers: Often seen in the company of pimps, hustlers and lowlifes
Software Developers: Often seen in the company of marketing people, venture capitalists and fund managers.
Drug Dealers: When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away but may be expensive
Software Developers: When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away but may be expensive
Drug Dealers: A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while still teenagers
Software Developers: A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while still teenagers
Drug Dealers: Their product causes unhealthy addictions.
Software Developers: DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D. 'Nuff said.
Drug Dealers: Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.
Software Developers: Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!
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