Planetary Museum

Regarding programmers, there is a famous joke on the Internet: "...everything is ready, and now there is only one programmer."

When Qinglan Consulting was just launched, Chen She often played such a role—the role of a programmer, which was specially used to deal with and solve various immature suggestions.

Every time Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen's needs appeared, they were weird and firm.But no matter how difficult it is, as long as it is the direction they set, they will definitely carry it out firmly in the end.

For the first time, he went to Vietnam alone to find a boat, and then asked all the crew members to drive the boat to a specific place, then let all the crew members leave, and finally returned by himself in a small boat...

At the beginning, facing these incredible needs, Chen She couldn't help thinking about the possible reasons behind these strange needs.

Let’s take the earliest boat as an example—the reason given by the teacher at that time was disaster relief, but after thinking about it afterwards, there was no disaster on the right number at all during that time.But after nearly a year of running-in, Chen She has begun to get used to execution instead of questioning - what Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen need is an excellent executor, and Chen She is now very clear about his career positioning.

Although I have fully accepted the demands of Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing, no matter how bizarre the request is, I will first fully accept it, and then confirm the feasibility - because the facts have told Chen She many times, Sometimes things that he thought were completely impossible to do were simply too easy for Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen.

Take Yevgeny for example, Chen She still remembers that when Shen Changwen first mentioned the related needs to himself, he just said a simple sentence: "The country is more sensitive, go to Europe and the United States to find out if there are nuclear missiles. experts."

Although at that time he had fully accepted the company's weird needs, but when he heard this, he still couldn't help asking the teacher to repeat: "Teacher, are you talking about intercontinental missiles?"

After confirming the requirements, in the next implementation, Chen She also tried to mention this kind of information to the agents in the US office at the beginning. After understanding, the answer is only one sentence - they don't know.

The meaning of not knowing is that they have no understanding of these information channels-that is to say, even with money, they cannot knock on any door.

After several attempts, Chen She understood: it is unrealistic to knock on the door with money for such a sensitive project.

So when Chen She reported back to Wu Xiaoqing, he could only say that his abilities were limited.

If it is an ordinary company, the boss will either throw a temper tantrum, say strange words, or just fire the squid in the face of the subordinates who shake their heads resolutely and helplessly.But neither Wu Xiaoqing nor Shen Changwen.They didn't seem to remember this incident at all—it's just that when they decided to travel and get married, and went to the company to ask for leave, Shen Changwen asked casually: "Hawaii...then let's take care of the missile experts by the way." .”

Chen She didn't know how the teacher promoted this matter. Now that I think about it, he just used his contacts in the scientific research field.But from this matter, one can clearly see a message - Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen's needs for themselves are clear and firm.Their seemingly harsh execution standards may be an unreasonable reality for Chen She or other hrs, but for themselves - they obviously know how to implement it.

Now, if the content of a new project is to let people travel to Pluto—Chen She will not doubt the other party's space knowledge in the first place, but will go back and check whether his own space knowledge is outdated.

In other words, if Wu Xiaoqing said to him: "Now, this project is short of a programmer." Then Chen She fully believed this.Maybe this programmer is the kind of special talent he can't find, but as long as Wu Xiaoqing or the mentor steps in, it will definitely be resolved in the end.

On the contrary, if Wu Xiaoqing hadn't told him such a need now, and he had already seen a programmer with an unfamiliar face sitting in front of him, using the company's office resources to seriously work on the project—just like what he sees now the same scene.

If it was an ordinary general manager of a company, he might yell strangely at the first time——Chairman, you can't trust me at all!

The reason why Chen She came here in such a hurry was largely because of this mentality.However, after he actually saw this scene, he didn't immediately ask the question he wanted to ask the most in his heart, but immediately asked himself one more question: "Did Wu Xiaoqing already know that this matter can't be done by himself?"

If you look at Qinglan Consulting with a strict corporate standard, there are big problems with the company's upper-middle-level power structure-the biggest problem is of course the unclear authority.

The chairman frequently intervenes in the front-line business, and he is always dismissed as the general manager. Several middle-level veterans are not qualified, but everyone seems to be in charge of several major projects-but they don't need to be responsible for these projects , and will often make guest appearances with each other.

If it is an ordinary company, if the personnel is chaotic to this extent, the company's business capabilities can basically be declared paralyzed - the biggest problem facing the company in this environment is often not that everyone is unwilling to work, but that everyone is desperate I really want to work - because all the front-line business is directly in charge of by the boss, if you mess up the boss, you will get a reward, of course you have to do it!

This mode of operation often has two extremes in the end-if it is not done well, the company will close down at the fastest speed; if it is done well, the company will develop at the fastest speed.

The key to good or bad is to look at the specific person who intervenes and the impact his behavior has on the company's profits.

It is undeniable that there are always such business geniuses in this world, such as the famous Steve Jobs, who, relying on his own will, leads the whole team to keep going up...

In Chen She's eyes, Wu Xiaoqing is now his Jobs.When he saw hundreds of unfamiliar foreigners in the company, one of his thoughts was not that Wu Xiaoqing believed or distrusted himself, but to check himself—whether it was because of his lack of ability that Wu Xiaoqing no longer had higher expectations for himself up.

Under normal circumstances, you should always talk to the general manager yourself first, and after discussing it—at least after you have worked hard and expressed that you are indeed not capable, you should promote it from other channels.

But now, the whole thing seems to be completely bypassing him and going on alone - this is obviously a very negative signal for Chen She.

……

"Joy," Wu Xiaoqing opened the door of the conference room and called someone's name, "Come out."

"Hi, boss-no. 1," the man called Joey had an obvious Eurasian face. At first glance, Chen She thought he was a movie star.Joey greeted Wu Xiaoqing with a smile, and then said to Chen She, "boss-no.2."

"Speak Chinese," Wu Xiaoqing nodded, and introduced Chen She, "This is Chen She, the general manager here."

"Oh, hello, Mr. Chen." Joey's Chinese was average, and he didn't look like his mother tongue.But by foreigners' standards, it's not too bad.

"Hello."

"You give Mr. Chen a brief introduction to the project, which is easy to understand."

"But it's the fun time here..." Joey frowned, as if he was a little against this task.

"Then you'd better introduce this kind of fun to Chen She," Wu Xiaoqing said, "if you are willing to live better and eat better in the next job."

"Okay," Joey nodded, and said to Chen She, "There are too many people here, let's go to the stairwell, by the way, do you happen to have a pack of cigarettes on you?"

Chen She shook her head.

"Then, will any of your subordinates just need to go down, so they bought me a pack of cigarettes by the way," Joey said awkwardly, "I came in a hurry, and I don't have RMB with me."

Chen She smiled and said, "You can exchange it in the company."

"I can't stay for a few days, forget it," Joey said, "Mr. Wu said it's best not to leave too many traces here."

After 20 minutes, Chen She, who failed to "just take a few subordinates with him", came back, and at the same time brought back a dozen cigarettes and dozens of boxes of beer.

The beer was moved, and the cigarettes were simply placed on the public table near the stairwell, just like the company's snack bar, where people could take it casually.

Anyway, it's Chinese New Year now, and there are no other companies in the building except Qinglan Consulting.Joey could tell that he was an old smoker. After getting the cigarette, he took the first puff, almost like Guo Degang's performance in the cross talk, and half of it disappeared at once, and then he spit out a long string of smoke.

After the smoke gradually dissipated, Joey began to say: "Okay, let's briefly talk about the project. The part I am in charge of, Mr. Chen, you should have heard of binary, we call it machine language."

"Correct."

"But in fact, binary itself is not a language," Joy said. "It is said that it is a machine language, just to facilitate our understanding. In fact, binary is just the execution program of the machine."

"I know," Chen She said. "The same is true for programming languages. Rather than saying that people are gradually making computers understand and execute human languages, it is better to say that humans are relying on these tools to give orders more precisely."

"Yes, command, this is a more accurate description. Language is a two-way tool. In the process of communication, the two parties using the language will keep moving towards each other during the use..." Joey stretched out his hands, writing Move closer, "The so-called computer language we now call is actually just a one-way command - you can keep giving commands to the computer, but the result will always be yes or no..."

"No, you have to find the reason yourself - strictly speaking, the program is just a logic circuit based on the microelectronic structure, which itself does not have scalability - I am speaking a little fast, can you understand?"

"It's okay." Chen She nodded.

"Well, now, here comes the fun part of our project," Joy said, "We found a binary language."

After finishing speaking, Joey stopped smoking and looked at Chen She's expression.

Chen She didn't realize it until she was stared at for more than ten seconds. The other party was expecting her to be excited.He smiled stiffly: "That... is very interesting... Can you speak this language? How do you judge?"

"The best way to judge a language is to look at the complexity of the vocabulary," Joy said. "In a strict machine language, there are actually only two words, 0 and 1. All the information is in these two words." The combination."

"But two words are definitely not enough to express a sufficiently complex concept. Imagine that in English, if there are only two letters a and b, the result will definitely be quite interesting. The current total English vocabulary is close to more than 100 million. In other words, just the vocabulary itself requires more than 100 million permutations—in binary, this permutation would require as many as 20 phrases.”

"Of course, this length is nothing to the machine. Generally speaking, the more complex the vocabulary itself, the higher the precision of the language, but the lower the versatility-judging from this perspective, a binary language in the strict sense, that is, The machine language we use now has reached the highest level of precision."