Drug dealers vs software developers
posted on: 21:26, December 1st , 2008<table id="1" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1">
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<td>Drug dealers </b>
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<td>Software developers</b>
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<p>Refer to their clients as "users".
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<p>Refer to their clients as "users".
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<p>"The first one's free!"
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<p>"Download a free trial version..."
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<p>Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the
stuff).
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<p>Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the
code).
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<p>Strange jargon: "Stick", "Rock",
"E", "Wrap", "The Pigs", "Dime
bag", "Hit(LSD)"
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<p>Strange jargon: "SCSI", "RTFM", "E",
"Java", "ISDN", "EPROM", "Hit(WWW)"
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<p>Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old 14- to
25-year-old market.
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<p>Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old 14- to
25-year-old market.
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<p>Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn't
work they want to kill you.
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<p>Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn't
work they want to kill you.
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<p>When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away,
but may be expensive.
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<p>When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away,
but may be expensive.
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<p>Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more potent
mixes.
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<p>Job is assisted by industry's producing newer, faster machines.
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<p>A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while
still teenagers.
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<p>A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while
still teenagers.
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<p>Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers.
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<p>Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture
capitalists.
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<p>Their product causes unhealthy addictions.
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<p>DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D
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<td>They do their job well, and then can sleep withsexy
movie stars whodepend on them.
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<td>Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!
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