Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!s-bytnar From: s-bytnar@uiuc.edu (Steven Bytnar) Newsgroups: uiuc.test Subject: The spooky similarity between drug dealers and software developers Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 19:33:53 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 42 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: isr1244.urh.uiuc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.4 --------------------------- --------------------------- Drug dealers Software developers --------------------------- --------------------------- Refer to their clients Refer to their clients as "users". as "users". "The first one's free!" "Download a free trial version..." Have important South-East Have important South-East Asian connections Asian connections (to help move the stuff). (to help debug the code). Strange jargon: Strange jargon: "Stick," "Rock," "SCSI," "RTFM," "Dime bag," "E". "Java," "ISDN". Realize that there's Realize that there's tons of cash in the tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old 14- to 25-year-old market. market. Job is assisted by the Job is assisted by industry's producing industry's producing newer, more potent mixes. newer, faster machines. Often seen in the company Often seen in the company of of pimps and hustlers. marketing people and venture capitalists. Their product causes DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D. unhealthy addictions. 'Nuff said. Do your job well, and Damn! Damn! DAMN!!! you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you. Steven Bytnar Computer Engineering | "That is why it is called a http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/s-bytnar | development version. They U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | don't even know if all the ((ACM *)&SigMicro)->MacWarriors().chair | bugs are _in_ it yet."