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