| 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”. |
Strange jargon: “SCSI”, “ISDN”, “Java”, “RTFM” |
| 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 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 (same thing). |
| Their product causes unhealthy addictions. | DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D. ‘Nuff said. |
| Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you. | Damn! Damn! DAMN!!! |
wade womersley – york based software engineer
