The corner coffee
(48)
Finally, I successfully completed the reception work of Lao Yao and fourth uncle to Beijing, and then I threw myself into the tense and busy work.
Monday is the day of the week when our mood is at its lowest, our tempest highest and our most impulsive. So for the day, try to stay calm while trying not to provoke others.
Monday was Kang shen’s first meeting as head of the framework team. Surely a new official must point a few fires. I did not dare to be late. I came to the company early and sat at my desk waiting for the morning meeting.
During The reign of Li Bo, Kang God was almost silent at every meeting. Now he is in charge of the group, a change from the past precious words such as gold, become eloquent. Kang God this state has a kind of concealment, keep the cloud open to see the light of the feeling.
As usual, we started with a progress report on our daily development tasks. Then, into the kangshen speech time. He announced at the group meeting that we were going to take on a major development task in the near future.
Unlike our previous efforts to develop infrastructure components for the enterprise, this time we are working on a product for the end user. Kangshen didn’t specify what kind of product it was, but judging by the expressions on the faces of colleagues at the conference, it seemed they already knew.
I took a few days off last week to accompany Lao Yao to the scenic spots. I had no idea that so many things had happened in the group during my absence. I face meng force, turned to meet with Wang Xu’s eyes. He saw my confusion and sent a private message on wechat, “A personalized reading App, code-named” Qianlong “for internal development.
In combination with the recent coverage of personalized reading products in various technology forums and news media, it suddenly dawned on me. I looked up at Kangshen and saw his ambition in his eyes. I had a burning feeling.
But not everyone shares Kang’s enthusiasm. People with high aspirations for technology tend to do internal infrastructure research and development. Because this part of the RESEARCH and development work can access to high concurrency, large traffic, big data and other cutting-edge technologies in the industry. Master these technologies, will become the most popular, the most in-demand technical talent.
If job-hopping, their own bargaining power will be relatively strong. Infrastructure has a strong appeal to people who want to follow a technical career path. And some end user oriented product research and development, often is some simple logic of heavy and complicated pile up, more practice makes perfect. For many years of practitioners, this work on their own technical accumulation, technical progress does not help much.
Of course, for a beginner developer like me who doesn’t even understand simple logic, there’s not much difference between the two. Maybe the latter can be done, but a lot easier.
For a few senior members of the group who had been working for five or six years, they would have been unhappy to be asked to do simple but grueling entry-level development tasks.
(49)
At lunch, Li Xiangyang revealed to me that Kangshen had already had a meeting with the boss of their product group. The design of qianlong’s prototype has been put on the agenda.
Langyun in the field of Internet social networking can be said to be a lonely failure, but once enterprises develop to the size of Langyun, the efficiency of product innovation will be greatly reduced. Often a new product from the idea to the landing, and finally through the company’s various internal approval process, at this time it is likely to be in the field of the blue sea into the red sea.
Therefore, Langyun is not good at some of their own segments, its strategy is often to be able to invest in shares, try not to do their own.
In the past two years, a personalized news reading product has appeared on the market, called “head-wise”. It seeks to change people’s reading habits through technology. It abandons the traditional manual editing and screening, adopts the artificial intelligence recommendation algorithm, and realizes the news reading of thousands of faces. Once launched, hot nationwide, its user growth rate of fast, the high retention rate of users to the industry sit up and take notice.
Being well-informed has dealt a blow to traditional news portals. The established news portals have repeatedly banded together to fight it, allowing it to grow rather than destroy it.
Over the decades, the Internet has had many ups and downs. Many of the great hegemons who once led the way collapsed in an instant. Such cases emerge one after another, so even the industry hegemons like Lang Yun dare not slack off in the face of new things. The whole company maintains a sense of crisis.
Since encircle and suppress not, Lang Yun decided to do a similar product, after striking is lang Yun strengths. From the speed of this product project, code name of the domineer, you can see that the company’s top management is very serious about it.
The development of Qianlong had nothing to do with our infrastructure team. Can kang god new official office, he does not want to lie in the old boss Li Bo’s achievements on the mountain. He wanted to expand into new areas and establish his own career. Therefore, he actively applied, hard to run, and finally won the “Qianlong” part of the function of the development task.
Li Xiangyang strongly suggested that Wang Xu and I apply to Kangshen to join the research and development of qianlong. Although it can be predicted that overtime will increase for some time to come, promotions and salary increases are just around the corner. Wang Xu said he wanted to reconsider. I said I would go where master was going.
(50)
On my way home from work in the evening, my left eye kept jumping, and my head began to repeat the saying “left eye jumps for fortune, right eye jumps for disaster”, thinking that I was going to make a fortune recently.
When I passed a street lottery, I bought five pairs of balls. Whenever I feel like I can’t stay in this city and I feel down, I buy lottery tickets. I don’t buy too much at one time, five bets at most, five bets is $5 million, five bets is $25 million, I’m not greedy.
Buying a lottery ticket gives you another chance to get rich overnight. Whenever there is a chance to get rich overnight, the days leading up to the drawing day are filled with anticipation and a positive mood. It works every time.
When you’re feeling down and hate the world, you might as well buy some lottery tickets.
I stuffed the ticket into my trouser pocket, ordered takeout from a restaurant down the street, and hummed my way to the door of my apartment. Before I walked in, I scanned the makeshift carport next to my apartment.
Suddenly, the place where MY bike had been parked was empty. I looked at the chain, which had been broken with pliers. I can not help but surprised “MY car lost”.
I asked Huang Fei, a security guard at the apartment, for help. He said he was unaware and found no suspicious people. I looked around again, but there was no sign of the bike. I was going to call the police, but then I realized that the police would never come to talk to me about a used bike that cost $200.
After searching for more than an hour and still no clue, I reluctantly gave up the idea of continuing to look for it. I’ve long since put that used Giant on the shelf, but I glance at it every day when I walk through the door. Just like those people who go out and always go back and pull on the door handle again to make sure it’s locked before leaving.
As one of my big fixed assets in the imperial capital, I felt at ease when it was docked there. However, it suddenly disappeared, and I became depressed. I dreamed about it for days on end.
In a dream with a happy ending, it finds its way like an old horse and a dog to the yard. After a few hands and a few butts, it finally came back to me. In a dream that ends tragically, it is dismembered by a junkyard, thrown into a furnace as scrap iron, and broken into molten iron.
As a rule, every time I lose something, I agonize for days. The more valuable something is, the longer it lasts. I’m nostalgic and rarely throw things away unless I move. There are many things in the house that I put away that should have been thrown away. From broken computers and cell phones to paper clips and nuts, I always thought I’d need them again one day.
They fill my room and keep my mind occupied. Perhaps it is because of poverty that they care too much about those discarded objects. Perhaps caring too much about things is the root of poverty.
For the first few days, as I walked the neon-lit streets at night and watched the traffic go by, I thought of the Giant. The head could not help but hover: you will not suddenly appear in the corner of the coffee shop……
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