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 Asian connections (to help move the stuff) | Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code) |
Strange jargon: - “Stick,”
- “Rock,”
- “Dime bag,”
- “E”
| Strage jargon: - “SCSI,”
- “RTFM,”
- “Java,”
- “ISDN”
|
Realize that there’s tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market | Realize that there’s tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market |
Job is assisted by the industry’s producing newer, more potent mixes | Job is assisted by industry’s producing newer, faster machines |
Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers | Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists |
Their product causes unhealthy addictions | DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem ‘Nuff said. |
Do your job well, and you can sleep with movie stars who depend on you | Damn! Damn! DAMN!!! |