Reboot 2003

Chapter 251 030: Technical ability (two in one)

Chen Qin seemed to be thoughtful at this time: "Why are you asking? They ask you to move, so just move. Anyway, if something happens, they will be responsible."

"No." A Yue said, "Our current Nebula server is actually quite easy to use. We have to leave now, but I feel quite embarrassed."

Chen Qin didn't understand for a while: "It's reasonable and legal for you to pay to rent a server. What's there to be embarrassed about..."

A Yue hesitated and said: "Actually, the Galaxy Software that provides this service used to have a good relationship with my father. A few days ago, I sent an email to Uncle Chen from Galaxy. Although he didn't dare to say who I was, he still helped me promote it. After our game, I feel like they are pretty good.”

It turns out that you were worried about this just now. It seems that your Uncle Chen's love for you was not in vain... Chen Qin thought so and explained to her: "Technology means R&D capabilities. Yahoo was the world's number one Internet company back then. We also attach great importance to technical training, and of course we have the skills.”

Ah Yue walked and asked again: "In comparison, which one is more powerful, Yahoo's technology or Galaxy's technology?"

"A company's technology is its people's technology. If we only look at people, Yahoo is the best." Chen Qin said, "In Silicon Valley, two architects can be killed by just turning around on the street, and the number of programmers hired by salary is higher than that of Galaxy." If you are great, the technology will be stronger. In terms of software engineering, as long as the people are good enough, the technology will naturally be great."

A Yue nodded and asked, "Do you think I should secretly tell Uncle Chen about this? No one else will know about it anyway."

"It's useless to know." Chen Qin said, "Although our society encourages innovation, not all innovations are protected. For example, our games are very popular now, but in fact there must be big companies We have started developing similar competing products, what do you think we can do if we find out about this?"

A Yue was a little surprised when she got the melon on her head: "What should I do?"

"There is no good solution. The law does not protect the gameplay of the game, and it certainly does not protect the business model. If Galaxy can provide cloud services, of course others can do it as well."

A Yue nodded, but Chen Qin then said: "But you don't have to worry too much about this. After all, business is bound to involve competition, and for us in the Internet field, although technology is very important, it is not all."

"Then who do you think can win?"

"I can't say who will win, but technology is a means to achieve an end. For someone who needs a server, all they want is a server that is stable enough to run their programs. Galaxy's technology is almost enough. .”

A Yue nodded: "Our game is actually quite simple. There are many more complex games than ours, but there are also many players who like our game."

"So it's the same thing. Our games are fun. In the final analysis, it's not that our technology is great, but that your design is better."

A Yue blushed a little: "I was taught by you, and I didn't think of it all by myself."

Chen Qin didn't care and continued: "As for cloud services, you can think about it, why did you choose Galaxy's cloud services in the first place?"

"Because it was recommended by you, and there was no one else to choose from at the time."

"Yes, I am a technician, so I naturally go to Github. There are many people like me. We would not use this thing originally. If there were no cloud services, we would either find other ways to solve the problem, or use traditional data If one center doesn’t work, just bring in a few more.” Chen Qin said, “Now Yahoo is following along to provide cloud services, and their services are not much better than Galaxy. Who do you think will use their cloud services after they come out?”

Ah Yue somewhat understood: "So those who are already using Galaxy will not recommend others to use other cloud service providers..."

"Yes, and cloud services have entrance advantages. Foreign Github and domestic Discuz! The users of these services are originally high-value groups of cloud services. Although Yahoo is the world's number one comprehensive website, its service targets They are white-collar workers who like to watch the news. These people may choose cloud services, but choosing Yahoo has nothing to do with their work. At least I don’t think it has a chance of winning..."

Ah Yue understood and felt better.

But just as she said this, she asked: "Chen Qin, you are obviously very skilled, but you don't seem to value the role of technology very much."

Chen Qin shook his head while walking: "Humans always think that what is good is what they lack. Compared with those of us who run companies, the most obvious gap between ordinary people is technology, so ordinary people often feel that having technology is enough." Can solve all problems..."

“So technology isn’t actually that important?”

"In fact, it is quite important, but mediocre technology is not that important. If anyone can make flash games, then the market will be competing for other things. Even if you can make flash games, it is already amazing." Chen Qin said, "As for the final The key factor is, why don’t you tell it yourself, what would you do if you had the skills?”

"Then I will make a very powerful game, such as using holographic 3D technology to make a friends battle, and let everyone fight crickets."

A Yue laughed as she spoke, and Chen Qin said: "So technology is just a tool, and in fact you don't have this ability, so if someone uses 3D technology to make a cricket fighting game tomorrow, you will have to be stopped if you don't have enough skills." Outside, even if you think his game is bad, you still won’t be able to participate. This is the meaning of technology.”

A Yue nodded: "By the way, this is the 'core competitiveness' you mentioned, right?"

"Yes, and for Internet companies, technology is the most important core competitiveness. Even if they cannot surpass others, they cannot be left behind. You can think of the example of cloud computing services. If Yahoo can rely on technology to turn cloud computing into If they reduce the cost by half, or use technology to develop a function that cannot be achieved by Galaxy software, then they will definitely win, and they will win faster than relying on media and ecology. That’s why I say no to who will win in the end. must."

"Then how do you make a company have technology? Is it money? Yahoo has money, so the technology is stronger..."

A Yue asked subconsciously, then thought that this question might be too rash, but Chen Qin actually answered: "Of course it's because everyone wants to master the core technology, so this thing is so difficult to master. But to Mastering core technology is not possible without money, but having money is certainly not enough.”

He thought for a while and said: "There was a senior who was doing software engineering in the past. He put forward a theory called 'There is no silver bullet'."

"Huh? What silver bullet?"

"That is to say, for development work, the difficulties we face are like a werewolf. By the way, have you heard of a werewolf?"

"Have not heard……"

"Then you've always heard of zombies, right?"

"You know, Lin Chaoying played the one in the movie!"

"That's Lin Zhengyin! Forget it, anyway, as long as you know it, let's call this rule 'No Peach Wood Sword'..." Chen Qin explained to her, "For example, we are Taoist priests who eliminate demons. When we encounter zombies, we will We want to use a mahogany sword to deal with it, but there are no such rules in many fields of pioneering technology. We can only use ordinary iron swords or sharper steel swords to deal with zombies. We are splashed with blood by it, and in the end we struggle a lot. We have to work hard to win, and then the sword in our hands can be regarded as the 'technique' you mentioned."

"I understand, so this means there is no shortcut to success, right?"

"That's pretty much it, but what this sentence means is that 'shortcuts' exist. For example, the agile development, waterfall solutions, object-oriented programming languages, tool libraries, and even cloud services and online office systems you use are all shortcuts. It’s just that these shortcuts usually don’t seem as immediate as the Taomu Sword.”

……

A Yue seemed to understand but not quite, and she didn’t know how much she finally understood.

But that’s about it for the chat.

Afterwards, A-Yue went back to the hotel where she was staying. Before leaving, she waved to Chen Qin. She had originally made an appointment to go to the studio together tomorrow.

Chen Qin immediately went home, entered the door, and rushed into his room. Grandma was not watching a show, but was talking to someone in the living room.

Chen Qin didn't care too much and immediately informed the company of the news that Yahoo was also preparing to launch cloud services.

But people at the company seemed to disagree.

"Yahoo, they want to get involved in everything now, and I don't think it's a big deal."

"Yes, it's not like Google is here. Boss, you called us all the way here just for something like this..."

"I think Microsoft is more scary."

"Well, I also think that if the nerds at Google frown when they see the hardware now, Microsoft is more likely to provide cloud services."

"I don't think Microsoft has anything to worry about. The Vista market has been so bad recently, and they are dragging their feet in making mobile phone systems. How can they have time to do other businesses?" "Yes, Microsoft has been too slow to respond. It has only recently begun to do its own work. Apple couldn't sell MP3 players until they realized it, so let's just focus on dealing with Amazon..."

The people in the company simply chatted and then went back to do their own things. Chen Qin did give them a few words to remind them not to take it lightly. However, Github is built with people from the open source community. To provide cloud services, the basic disk is also important. It’s abroad, and all domestically can do is cooperate with the announcement. By 2023, Tianchao cloud services are still experiencing high concurrency. This seems to be because domestic labor is relatively cheap, and industrial software cannot keep up. Many There is basically no market for productivity tools in China.

From this point of view, Yahoo, which imitates Chen Qin in the domestic market, really has no chance of winning. No wonder the company's people don't take Yahoo seriously.

But this is actually a contradictory logic - if Ah Yue were here, she would probably be confused that these bosses have a different understanding of the company than what Chen Qin just said. If people are similar and technology can be bought with money, then Silicon Valley The companies should have similar technical capabilities. There is no problem that Yahoo is not good, but Microsoft and Google are more worth worrying about.

However, this is indeed the case. Just now, Chen Qin said that there is no silver bullet. This is of course the right path that should be promoted in the industry, but he did not tell A Yue that in the Internet industry, there is indeed a difference in the 'technical capabilities' between different companies. The huge unexplained gap…

Some insiders believe that this is determined by something called 'company genes'. For example, Google is better than Yahoo, and Tencent is only capable of micro-innovation... There may be no basis for it, and it even sounds a bit fantasy, but from a practical point of view It does exist, and it seems to provide a well-known negative evidence for the hypothesis of "no shortcuts".

Now that the company has reached this level, it is time to consider this issue.How to have real 'technology'?Cloud computing is now underway, but the future evolution direction of this project is closely related to software technology, and mobile phones are also a technology-intensive industry. Although the current Android can probably be left to Google, what about the future?
Thinking this way, Chen Qin's heart became a little heavy. This seemed to have touched upon the essence of the problem he was pursuing, but as for the specific solution, he still couldn't find it...

To make credit and value solid enough, you still have to "have what others don't have and I have it." In market competition, this is obviously the same thing as core competitiveness. Other Internet companies will make up piles of technical jokes in order to push up their stock prices. , although his Galaxy Network does not mind wearing the label of 'new era online media', it now wants to 'develop technology'...

We can only wait for Mr. Li to evaluate it slowly.After talking in the morning, he did not immediately give an answer on how much money it would cost, but Chen Qin could only do this - it is of course unrealistic for the whole company to cooperate with Kaitian OS to build a mobile phone system, but the most basic investment is to invest money. He is capable of doing it. It doesn't matter if he can't beat Google this time. Anyway, let's give it a try first.

Just as I was thinking this, the people in the channel also left.

Chen Qin was no longer in the mood to think about games as before. He put down his headphones and wanted to chat with Ji Xianglin again, but then he heard his mother's voice in the living room.Looking back, I saw Lao Chen looking around at the door.

Chen Qin was speechless: "You're back?"

"I know how to lie down on your computer every day." Lao Chen scolded him, "What are you looking at? You are so serious."

Seeing that he was wearing a suit, Chen Qin simply didn't want to change it: "Why, can't I also do business?"

"Exactly." Lao Chen said, vaguely but a little guilty, and changed the topic, "I heard that in addition to doing the studio with Xiao Gao recently, you also made a small game by yourself."

"Um……"

Lao Chen added: "I also brought a little girl back home."

Chen Qin patiently explained: "She is a classmate, and she is the one doing the game."

Then he added: "It's different from Lingling."

"You still remember your Lingling? I thought you forgot about it in the middle of the semester." Lao Chen thought for a while and said seriously, "There has been a snowstorm recently, and Lingling's father doesn't know if he will come, but he said that during the New Year Will come back to visit relatives nearby.”

Chen Qin looked at the computer screen and replied: "Lingling told me that she wanted to come over after the new year."

"I thought you were no longer in contact." Lao Chen paused, "Then since you are still in contact with Lingling, you should pay attention to your daily dealings with people. What if someone hears something and misunderstands it? manage."

After finishing speaking, he added: "I know you like to play with such fancy things, but look at our two families now... Lao Xu has moved to Xiangjiang. He has successfully started a business and lives in a house worth millions. , a plane trip costs tens of thousands of dollars. I heard that your Lingling is also hanging out with big stars and young ladies every day. She even sang a pop song some time ago. Since there is a gap between our families, you have to be careful about everything. That’s how people feel.”

"Hey, I know what I know!"

Chen Qin was convinced by this old man, a grown-up man who talked about his mother-in-law and mother-in-law.

He quickly changed the subject and asked where was his mother?

Lao Chen said that your mother is in the living room and brought back a bunch of delicious food...

Chen Qin hurriedly left the bedroom, and sure enough he saw Mr. and Mrs. Chen coming back with a lot of food bags. Last year, the hot pot city in Hanzhang was booming. Of course, it was quite good. Unfortunately, due to the snowstorm, the hot pot city was forced to close down. So why not Let everyone in the store go home for the New Year.

After the train was opened, Mr. and Mrs. Chen also came back to Longshan, but they brought these 'delicious foods'...

When I opened it, I saw bags of baby cabbage, enoki mushrooms, and pumpkins.

"A lot of dishes."

"What's left in Hot Pot City," Lou Xuemei said, "Thanks to Xiao Qin's reminder, we carried water and generators in advance. During the most serious days, there were power outages every day, but the food we stored was basically not damaged. I took all these dishes with me before leaving."

Chen Qin asked: "But why are these all vegetables?"

"It's not your dad and your Uncle Bai." Lou Xuemei said with a smile, "When the store was closed, they lit the candle and ate hot pot every day. After all the meat was eaten, this was the only thing left..."

Old Chen was embarrassed: "Don't you want to free up the meat cabinet first..."

Fine.

Seeing that they are so happy, it probably means that the business is really doing well and they just need to be able to do it.

Because it is not in the field he knows, Chen Qin can't help much - of course, cloud services are also related to the catering industry. In the future, inventory management and financial management can reduce costs and increase efficiency in the catering industry. .

But... first of all, it is something that only franchise stores and chain stores will use. For an individual boss, nothing is more reliable than a business that he personally supervises.

Secondly, the technical skills are still insufficient.This year 2008, there is so much that can be done.

Group buying, o2o, blockchain, new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, the Internet of Things... Although there are already a lot of resources on hand, when it comes to projects, they still seem to be a bit stretched...

Speaking of which, why does Lao Chen insist on setting up his own crappy restaurant?
Forget it.

The next few days passed by a pot full of stewed vegetables.

However, Longshan City seems to be deserted again.

Xu Lingling sang a song. Chen Qin had heard it before, but he knew that she was just a fan and didn't care. As a result, the song became popular. After all, the song was copied——

Of course he didn't copy it himself, but for commercial companies, relying on one or two talented creators is not a good model. Having a mature operating method is the most worthy development strategy. Galaxy Music, in addition to relying on Li Jianhe signed a few songwriters, and basically relied on buying the rest. In the early years, the Chinese music scene was looking for licenses everywhere. In the future, they won’t even need licenses and will just sample. In short, this model is very convenient.

Yao Nabei was an early veteran and became popular when she sang "Not Afraid, Not Afraid". This song was "Linden Love" that I bought that year.

Recently, a new album was released. There is a song called "Beautiful Things". I bought it from Sunshine. Li Jian wrote the lyrics. It was originally for Yao Nabei, but she happened to be in Xiangjiang and asked the junior to come as a guest...

One thing to say is that Xu Lingling is still learning to sing. Specifically speaking, her voice is not bad, but her singing has no emotional expression. The only bright spot is her "pretending to be cute" singing style, which is like a primary school student reciting in vain. She doesn't have the ability to release a single or album on her own, and of course she doesn't have any career plans in this area.

But probably because this song is really simple, singing it together with the younger ones can also help each other. In short, the popularity is really good after it was released. Various invitations came in one after another, and Chen Qin began to doubt whether she could come to the Chinese New Year.

After the last conversation, Ayue and the company had almost reached an agreement - the company's stock price was currently sluggish, so it gave her 2% in one breath. Considering that it was a listed company, this condition seemed a bit scary, but then As "Friends Brawl" becomes more and more popular, this seems to have become a natural condition. After signing the contract, the next development has not yet been discussed. After all, for the company, it has to accept the production of a minor. People are also a difficult challenge.

Before the New Year, A-Yue wanted to finish her work first, but the company invited her to visit the headquarters and talk about how the future work would unfold... A-Yue thought about it again and again, and finally agreed. Later, I was busy with the docking work with Kuaikan. I haven't met Chen Qin since that day. There was only one week before the Spring Festival, so I went to Lin'an early with the adults in her family.

(End of this chapter)