Drug Dealers v Software developers

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”, “ISDN”, “Java”, “RTFM”

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 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. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D.

Drug dealers : Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.
Software developers : Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!

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Look in the Forest if you want to find trees

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