The architecture of the place is almost identical to that of the main office, and after walking through the unpretentious corridors, Alice meets her colleagues in an office area. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info That's a whole team of fifty programmers, and as Andrio said, everyone burst out with the enthusiasm of first love for Alice to join.

After all, for this group of authentic programmers, Alice, who developed Windows alone and pioneered the router product, is the most popular star in the circle!

"Welcome, Alice!"

A man who knows who it was took Alice's hand and said excitedly, "My name is Tom Henderson, and I bought my son an installation disk for Windows. Well, you bought it for me, you're a genius! No, you're a genius......."

"Hey, Alice, you don't have to pay attention to Tom. ”

At the lively door, another young man who looked like a young man from a university pushed Tom away: "My name is John, Tom has been with Lockheed for seven years, and I just joined the company half a year ago." Oh my god, you can work with Alice, boss, you're not kidding?"

Andrio smiled and just wanted to answer, Alice shook John's hand: "You just joined the company half a year ago, and you can join such a special R&D team, you must be amazing, right?"

"Okay, okay, guys, come one by one, come one by one, don't crowd, don't mess around!"

Routine personnel introductions, one name after another and endless handshakes, today's eight-hour work interval is afraid to be seriously reduced. Of course, of course, a beautiful little girl like Alice came to a studio full of single programmers, such a bright and sunny thing, let alone shrinking by an eight-hour contraction, even if everyone is asked to post a month's salary, I believe all bachelors are happy to do it, right?

Then, it wasn't until a Ph.D. student in theoretical physics who claimed to have graduated from MIT showed Alice his computer screen that the noise of the personnel change finally stopped.

The DOS interface is full of code, enough to make any layman's scalp tingle, but Alice wants to sit at the table like a loved one. With her eyes fixed on the screen, the five fingers of her left hand slid swiftly on the keyboard, and countless codes scrolled like wild bees.

"Ah, sensing gyroscopes, that's a good thing. ”

Without waiting for the employee to explain, Alice's eyes swept over the screen, and Alice understood everything: "And this one is, your balance control system based on gyroscopes? The code is a bit redundant......

"Is there any room for change?"

Watching Alice scan the program she had written seriously and quickly, Hank was even a little nervous when he asked.

At the same time, the desk is already full of colleagues, and Alice Wang has her eyes on the system program written by Hank Micaul, which is not an opportunity that can be obtained at any time.

"At present, it is redundant and reduces the processing speed of the system. ”

Alice quickly took a screenshot of a string of code: "You look at this string, from this line to this line, this logic is written a little repetitively. ”

As she spoke, without waiting for the young man to ask anything more, Alice spoke directly.

Click on another interface, and hit the keyboard with both hands, but in a few seconds, a string of code that is only one-third of the length is successfully baked.

"Look at me and look at you. ”

Alice's tone was very calm, and there was no sharp posture in the words she spoke: "Can it have the same effect?"

Of course, Hank knew better than anyone the function of the piece of code that he had been screenshotted by Alice, so he didn't need to go back to the previous page, he stared directly at Alice's article.

Behind the two of them, the heads of seven or eight more people kept coming towards the screen.

"Really...... It's exactly the same!"

But after a moment, after reading the entire code, Hank shouted in dismay, "It's only as long as mine...... That's a third, but the functionality is exactly the same!"

"That's really the case, hey Hank, how did you write the code? two-thirds of the nonsense, hahaha~"

"Alice Alice, can you take a look at my code?"

"Two-thirds of the length has been reduced, which means that the development time has been reduced by two-thirds, or rather, the performance has been tripled in the same amount of time? Oh my God......"

As a result, Alice was immediately invited to his computer by another employee, and Hank's computer was immediately greeted by seven or eight inhumane onlookers. For a moment, the entire office was filled with the sound of people talking loudly, and when Andrio spoke, he had to try to raise his voice.

"Guys, guys, I'm going to give you half an hour. Alice is the chief designer and chief technical consultant hired by the company, and she doesn't just sell coolies for our avionics program. I'll give you half an hour, and then I'll show her around the factory!"

If Oron Lockheed's idea, long before he had a good conversation with Joseph, was just for Alice to try to program avionics first. So when she raised countless creative rhetorical questions about the overall design of the aircraft, the scope of her authority, which was already carrying the title of "technical consultant", was naturally going to become bigger......

said that it was half an hour, not even a minute to spare, and as soon as the time came, Andrio immediately pulled Alice out of the office. At the same time, more department heads have also come out of various rooms in the office building, aren't they all the same people Alice had seen in the meeting?

"Alice, hey, Alice!"

In the crowd in the corridor, Susan beckoned to a figure in the distance and said, "Let me introduce you, this is another Alice!"

Then, Alice had already heard about it, and another "Alice" appeared.

She walked out of the crowd a little shy and nervous, a very ordinary woman, in her early thirties, with brilliant blonde hair, and wearing a white lab coat for the research room.

"Hi, hello, uh...... Alice. My name is Alice, Alice Thompson. ”

Alice smiled bitterly and shook hands with "Alice" and said, "It's all because our names are too common, it seems that it is better to call you Thompson in the future, otherwise I will have to go crazy." ”

Alice Thompson was visibly more relaxed, and as everyone walked towards the elevator hall together, she followed Alice and spoke a little faster than before: "But I'm thirty-three years old, oh, I'm a graduate of MIT, and I took the subject of computer hardware principles back then." That one...... Alice, when you have time, can you teach me how you thought about designing Windows?"

The compilation of a computer operating system requires programmers to have a very good grasp of the basic structure and operating principle of computer hardware, after all, this involves at least the driver problems of various types of hardware. Since Thompson was enrolled in this type of major, she must have paid more attention to the development of an entire operating system on her own than anyone else.

"No problem, piece of cake, uh, big guy, the elevator door is open. ”

The Lockheed Military Aircraft R&D Center, which occupies most of the entire town, cannot, of course, be just an office building, and just behind this building, a large piece of land is occupied by factories.

It was also here that Alice witnessed the fuselage of the YF-22 with her own eyes.

Of course, the semi-finished product has already been baked, and it is not difficult to build an iron shell, and the large plane with a length of nearly 20 meters and a wingspan of nearly 14 meters stands majestically in the open space. Not far away, there are many factory employees in overalls, and a whole military aircraft production line full of heavy industry.

"Good guys, it's exactly the same......"

Looking at the real body of this military plane, which will spread pictures all over the Internet throughout the twenty-first century, Alice whispered: "YF-22, hmm...... Joseph, this is where the machine gun is installed?"

Alice pointed her finger at the nose, where there was obviously a place where accessories could be installed, and Joseph stood beside her, and immediately replied: "That's right, we plan to install a 20 mm Vulcan cannon, but there must not be too many orders." But here, well, four attachment points, and a built-in magazine that can hold nearly 2,500 pounds of ammunition, that's the big guy!"

In fact, there is no need for Joseph to explain much, for the famous F-22 in later generations, how can Alice not know the reason for its performance?

And the fundamental reason why she came here is only known to herself.

Lockheed Martin......

Well, at this point, it hasn't acquired a merger with Martin-Marietta, but its position in the industry hasn't been affected at all. Founded back in 1912, the world's largest defense contractor, what is this concept?

Although the United States has given birth to countless billionaires, the enterprises that can really have influence on the country, or in other words, the enterprises that have the greatest influence on the country will always be the financial oligarchy and the military-industrial complex.

As for companies such as Microsoft, which face bankruptcy every 18 months, although the amount of wealth is far higher than that of such companies, and it is easy to give birth to billionaires, when it comes to real influence, the world-famous Bill Gates is really not as good as the little-known arms dealers.

The so-called military-industrial complex refers to a huge interest group composed of military departments, military-industrial enterprises, some members of Congress, and defense research institutes. The financial oligarchs with Wall Street as the core can directly affect the existence of basic prices in the country and even the world as long as they move their fingers and easily manipulate the stock price. In contrast, although people in Silicon Valley talk about changing the world every day, it is this group of people who really affect everyone.

After all, a person can not use Twitter, can not use Facebook, can not even do without Google, not Baidu, and the computer will not even turn on. But could he not satisfy himself with food, clothing, shelter and shelter, and live in a country surrounded by armies?

That's what Alice really aims for. (To be continued.) )