In the linear algebra class, Jason and Tommy sat in the last row in a low-key manner, but they still couldn't avoid becoming the most eye-catching presence in this large classroom room with more than 90 students.

From time to time, a student turned his head and looked at the two of them with a smile.

"Thank you, Jason, for giving me such an intuitive insight into Spanish cuisine." Tommy was dressed up as a Spanish ham in a bloated doll propaganda uniform from a Spanish restaurant, his eyes were fixed on the podium, and his voice was desperate to Jason, who was dressed as a cheese strudel, and said, "I said it, keep you awake." ”

Jason knew he was at a loss, so he could only comfort Tommy and say, "Hopefully, Boss, we wear these two outfits to class, maybe the restaurant owner will be willing to pay us a small part-time advertising fee, and we don't have to be treated as transvestites like the other bastards." ”

After missing out on women's clothing, Jason finally thought of another way to get clothes, he said that the Spanish restaurant where he worked part-time had two advertising doll models outside the school building, so he ended up running outside the school building with Tommy and two people wrapped in blankets, stripped off the model's doll clothes, and put them on himself, which is why the two of them became the most eye-catching presence in the classroom.

The reason why you wear this kind of clothing to class on time and are reluctant to go back to the dormitory to change your clothes is mainly because Stanford University values students' attendance and homework completion rate, which will eventually be converted into your total grades in college, every time you are late, every time you are absent from class, every time you do not complete your homework on time, you are quietly lowering your overall grades, and then when your grades fall to a threshold value, you will receive a notice of dismissal from the university, indicating that your grades are no longer eligible for education here.

Time is spent in constant torture, this torture is not to say that SSD has designed a lot of deliberately torturous means, but as a freshman, you have to go to class on time, complete a large number of homework assigned by the professor, review in advance to cope with the exam, and almost busy until eleven o'clock or even later every day, at the same time, you have to squeeze out time to read the fraternity's rookie handbook, and memorize the Greek letters on it, various rules and clauses, etc., because the fraternity will also take exams for rookies every week, Test whether the rookies have memorized those rules, if they can't remember them, they don't pay enough attention to the brotherhood, and if they fail the exam twice in a row, you can say goodbye to the brotherhood.

So instead of the pressure of schoolwork and boring memorization of manuals, those nonsensical, stupid tasks are more like stress-relieving activities to prevent them from going crazy under pressure.

For example, if you wear a wide knitted jacket and throw out a thread and tie it to a deer, and then the deer will be let go, well, you need to chase the deer frantically to untie the thread or keep your distance, lest the only coat on your body become less and less as the thread is pulled away, and eventually you will be naked.

Or ingesting laxatives by mistake without knowing it, and then the nine rookies were forcibly taken to a kilometer away from the nearest toilet, ready to run wildly in order to go to the toilet, and when they finally reached the toilet with the desire to excrete, they found that there were only five pits, and the last four rookies who arrived could only wail in despair.

In the play and tricks again and again, the old birds began to become enthusiastic about the rookies, after all, to put it bluntly, the fraternity is a student club, but they have designed all kinds of means, rituals and gimmicks to make themselves look more ancient and more mysterious, and when they see those rookies working hard to join them, they will not be stingy with all kinds of kindness and are willing to provide all kinds of help.

For example, after learning that Jason received a warning from a professor because of a 50% repetition rate between his and his classmates' answers on an assignment, several old birds would spend a few hours teaching him to write a letter of appeal to the school, explaining to the professor that Jason did not plagiarize, but that the other party had plagiarized him without Jason's knowledge, and successfully made the professor retract the warning.

For example, Tommy left only one computer, and the other four moved to the Fraternity House, giving them the ideas they wanted, asking everyone to help provide technical support and listen to their feedback.

"Tommy, I think your idea is the same as Shit's, it's not innovative." Eric sat down in front of the computer, paused, lit a cigarette, and then smashed the cigarette case at Tommy, who was concentrating on the code, and said, "You're just copying the functionality of those software, and there are already those software on the market, what is the purpose of doing this?" ”

Tommy took the cigarette and lit it: "What I want to do is not only copy, but also to add a more complete user experience to these software, such as this software tentatively named SSD-2 at this time, in my thinking, I want to remove the Louts1-2-3 charting function and database management function, only retain the core spreadsheet function and improve it, add automatic calculation and filling and other functions, and then improve the electronic document function of WordStar, add some things such as word search, automatic segmentation." ,Add footnotes and other shortcut functions into it.,Basically, I copied them.,But the finished products are less difficult to use than them.,It's also faster.。 ”

"Word lookup sounds good, but WordStar doesn't seem to have it." Eric was stunned for a moment when he heard Tommy's words, and then said: "Every time I use the computer to complete my writing and want to check whether I have written a word in my homework incorrectly, I can only look for it line by line, and frankly, this function alone makes me expect a lot more from this shit you made." ”

These features that make Eric shine are Tommy Hawke after using most of the office software on the market during this time, and then summarized by recalling the basic functions of Word, Excel and other software that have been developed and matured in the previous life, although there are many types of document software and table software, but the functions are still very simple, generally speaking, the follow-up updates of this office software rely on user feedback to decide to add or adjust certain functions, Tommy as a traverser, The only chance to overtake in corners is that he has used very mature similar software, and knows that there are many practical functions that these software lack at this time.

It's just that some functions can be realized, and some cannot be realized temporarily due to the development of science and technology, but the few convenient functions he just proposed can already be realized by relying on existing technology.

He didn't want to develop a completely new software, he just wanted to develop a software that was easier than other office software in the world, less difficult to get started, as compatible as possible with other similar software files, and able to run successfully on the cheapest and best-selling personal computers.

"Do you know how much a white-collar worker who knows how to use Louts1-2-3 earns every week? As long as he writes down more than 600 key combinations, he can get a weekly salary of nearly 300, and he is treated as a computer genius by the boss, and even the developers of office software are emphasizing this intentionally or unintentionally, showing the professionalism of the software, it seems that as long as they can operate their software, they can become elites, and I am ready to debunk their masks, that is, this thing has no technical content to operate, and I will try to control the operation manual to ten pages, so that a housewife only needs to memorize it, We can use this software to do the same work as those elites, and we want to be compatible with the files of those software. Tommy looked at the computer screen and said to Eric:

"This allows the capitalist to clearly see that the work that he thought could only be done by a genius with a salary of 300 weeks can be done with our software, and a housewife who has graduated from high school can do the same with a little training, nothing more than simple watchmaking or typing, without any technical content, and it is more difficult for a housewife to cook dinner for her two children than this job."

Eric sat back in front of the computer, picked up the notebook that Tommy had used to record various test data, looked at the dense text on it, and said, "So this is the selling point that you talk about to the big companies when you are ready to sell this software when you finish developing it?" A revamped version of Louts plus WordStar? ”

"No, I didn't want to rely on professional computer magazines to advertise and sell to large companies, I actually wanted to set a suitable price, fool those housewives who were eager to make some money, and tell them that they could earn the same weekly salary as white-collar elites, as long as they were willing to buy and learn our relatively simple software, and learn it, then when they wanted to find a job, they didn't have to think that they could only go to a fast food restaurant as a waitress, but they could wear a decent dress, go to various companies for interviews, and maybe help law firms deal with various contract documents, Or help the accounting firm deal with all kinds of financial statements and other decent work, yes, in terms of these two functions, document processing and form processing, one less than Louts1-2-3, I went to visit ten alumni companies in Silicon Valley last Saturday to do a survey, and found that the total number of office computers in ten companies is as high as 320, 87% of the computers are mainly using these two office software, and each company needs people to process a large number of documents and forms. Tommy said to Eric:

"You just asked me what I was doing this for? My goal is to turn this seemingly high-end job into a popular skill that everyone can master, and make some money from it, but first, I need your help to help me implement these functions first. ”

"No, you're going to have to help us win the rookie game tonight, Tommy Maggot." The rookie supervisor appeared outside Eric's room door at this time, and when he heard Tommy's last words, he said, "You said that your table tennis skills are good, right?" So I signed up for ping pong vodka for you. ”

(End of chapter)