How Programmers Are Like Drug Dealers
Drug dealers: Refer to their clients
as "users".
Software developers: Refer to their clients
as "users".
Drug dealers: "The first one's free!"
Software developers: "Download a free trial version..."
Drug dealers: Have important South-East
Asian connections
(to help move the stuff).
Software developers: Have important South-East
Asian connections
(to help debug the code).
Drug dealers: Strange jargon:
"Stick," "Rock,"
"Dime bag," "E".
Software developers: Strange jargon:
"SCSI," "RTFM,"
"Java," "ISDN".
Drug dealers: Realize that there's
tons of cash in the
14- to 25-year-old
market.
Software developers: Realize that there's
tons of cash in the
14- to 25-year-old
market.
Drug dealers: Job is assisted by the
industry's producing
newer, more potent mixes.
Software developers: Job is assisted by
industry's producing
newer, faster machines.
Drug dealers: Often seen in the company
of pimps and hustlers.
Software developers: Often seen in the company of
marketing people and venture
capitalists.
Drug dealers: Their product causes
unhealthy addictions.
Software developers: Doom (I and II). Quake. Descent (I and II). SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D... Need I continue?
Drug dealers: Do your job well, and
you can sleep with
sexy movie stars who
depend on you.
Software developers: Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!