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SURPRISINGLY SIMILAR!
| DRUG DEALERS | SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS |
| Refer to their clients as "users" | Refer to their clients as "users" |
| "The first one's free!" | "Download a free trial version..." |
| Have important South-East connections Asian connections (to help move the stuff) | Have important South-East connections Asian connections (to help debug the code) |
| Strange jargon: "Stick" |
Strange jargon: "SCSI" |
| Realise that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market | Realise that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market |
| Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn't work they want to kill you. | Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn't work they want to kill you. |
| Job is assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent products | Job is assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent products |
| Often seen in the company of pimps, hustlers, and lowlifes. | Often seen in the company of marketing people, venture capitalists, and fund managers |
| When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away but may be expensive. | When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away but may be expensive/ |
| A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while still teenagers | A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while still teenagers |
| Their product causes unhealthy addictions. | DOOM. Quake. SimCityDuke.
Nukem 3D. 'Nuff said. |
| Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you. | Damn! Damn! DAMN!!! |
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