| 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: | Strange jargon: |
|---|
| "Stick" | "SCSI" |
| "Rock" | "RTFM" |
| "Wrap" | "Packet" |
| "E" | "C" |
| "Stash" | "Cache" |
| "Drive by" | "CTRL ALT DEL" |
| "Hit (LSD)" | "Hit (WWW)" |
| "Source" | "Source-code" |
| "The Pigs" | "Microsoft" |
| 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. |
| 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 product. | Job is assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent product. |
| Often seen in the company 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 teen-agers | A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while still teen-agers |
| 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!!! |
