Rushi’s posterous

Rushi’s posterous

Rushi Vishavadia  //  25 year old Software Developer based in Dubai.

I blog at http://rushi.vishavadia.com/blog/ and Twitter as @rushiv

Aug 15 / 9:28pm

Drug Dealers and Software Developers

We have way too many similarities except one, damn, damn, damn

Drug dealers:

  • Refer to their clients as "users".
  • "The first one's free!"
  • Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff).
  • Strange jargon: "Stick", "Rock", "Dime bag," "E".
  • Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
  • Job is assisted by industry's producing newer, more potent mixes.
  • Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers.
  • Their product causes unhealthy addictions.
  • Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.

Software developers:

  • Refer to their clients as "users".
  • "Download a free trial version..."
  • Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code).
  • Strange jargon: "SCSI", "ISDN", "Java", "RTFM"
  • Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
  • Job is assisted by industry's producing newer, faster machines.
  • Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists.
  • Their product causes unhealthy addictions - DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D.
  • Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!
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