America 1982

"You couldn't take that girl away last night? Didn't I tell you the location of the nearest hotel? Or I'll sleep outside and leave the dormitory to you." Jason rubbed his head that was a bit aching after being drunk. He got up from his bed, looked at Tommy, who had also failed to strike up a conversation with a girl, and said.

Tommy closed the 120-page manual for the Electric Pencil document processing software and looked at Jason: "I thought what I said was cool and that girl would be attracted to me, but unexpectedly, she heard that I only After I wanted to communicate with her in bed when I had some free time, she decisively left me."

"You think that girl is a call girl?" Jason's eyes widened and he moved his fingers on his temples a few times: "Brother, are you sure you are a primate? Have you ever asked your father, you may be someone else. What kind of thing evolved, and then was picked up and raised by him, but it looks like a human? You don’t have a relationship with a girl, you just want to mate with her? How could any woman agree? "

"Then when you approached those girls last night, your true reaction was whether you wanted to have a relationship or have sex?"

"...Go to bed, but at least act like a gentleman on the outside. Don't act like an asshole like you."

"That's called hypocrisy, I call it honesty." Tommy smiled and said to Jason: "Last night was not without gain. Last night, the guy named Eric from SSD said that we could go to them later on Friday night. When we visit there, he will arrange more time to chat with us. I think the two of us should have received the interview invitation in advance."

"This is indeed good news, man! If we can join SSD, we will have no shortage of girls. SSD maintains friendly relations with three sororities. Even my cousin has not been able to join SSD." Jason heard Tommy's words, Finally he regained his energy, with an excited expression on his face.

After pouring a glass of water and drinking it, Jason noticed that there was a pile of unpacked software packages on Tommy's desk. Twenty or thirty user manuals of varying thicknesses were comparable to dictionaries: "What are these?"

"All kinds of commercial software, before you woke up, I was madly cursing them. After I paid for all the software, I still had to spend separate money to buy their user manuals." Tommy cursed in pain: " And there’s no fucking student discount.”

These softwares are very expensive. For example, several office softwares from MicroPort are priced at US$495, the most expensive, and US$145, the cheapest, and they all do not include user manuals. If you need a user manual, then You may also pay anywhere from fifteen to forty dollars per manual.

"Real professional courses in computer science start in the sophomore year. In the first year, I remember they were all regular courses, such as linear algebra, calculus, political science, etc. Are you ready to learn professional knowledge on your own now? Don't do this, Boss, we did it yesterday What fun you have at night..." Jason thought that Tommy was preparing to study computer science courses in advance. He frowned and said, "If you insist on starting self-study like a boring nerd, you will easily lose my simple and upright roommate."

"Of course I remember having sex every night, but having sex every night requires money. Jason, we have to find a way to make some money. You drive a Lotus sports car and invite girls, and you ride your own bicycle and invite girls, and you get The reply was completely different, I didn't study on my own in advance, I just... Yes, I just started studying on my own, but I promise not to miss the party." Tommy picked up the cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath, and said to his roommate.

He really has no plans to turn himself into a coder now. It is too early to talk about creativity or code for program development. The most indispensable thing at Stanford University or the entire Silicon Valley is all kinds of creativity. Almost everyone Sophomore, junior, and senior computer science students can just gather two or three friends and write a cool software in a few days, but not many students actually make money.

Here, you don’t just stay up all night writing a piece of software and you can make millions. There are indeed many Stanford alumni in Silicon Valley who are willing to support their younger generations, but they are also calm and rational capitalists and will not make money just because you wrote a software that seems possible. Software that makes money really invests money to support you in seizing the market. More often than not, you feel that your software has some potential, so you just pay a small sum of money to buy it out. No matter whether you make a profit or lose, it will be with you in the future. Nothing to do.

Just like Microsoft bought all the copyrights of MS-DOS and only paid developers 75,000 yuan, but then it made countless times more money by licensing it to more than 70 computer manufacturers. This is what most software developers in Silicon Valley have experienced. The real situation is that countless people around the world use their own systems, but they only remember the name Microsoft.

What's more, the standards of the personal computer market are not yet completely unified. This is why Tommy wants to buy five personal computers. He is just a time traveler, but he is not an omniscient and omnipotent God. He often needs to complete early market analysis and complete relevant research alone. After making sure that your idea has sufficient commercial value and you can talk to people about investment instead of simply betting on the market for a low-price buyout, you can then consider the least challenging follow-up development work.

He is not a programmer who loves coding, he is just a poor guy who wants to make money through software.

"So what are your plans for today? It'd better be related to women." Jason looked at Tommy.

Tommy nodded and smiled at Jason: "It does have something to do with the lady. I plan to work part-time at the technical support and help center of the library after class. The management teacher there is a lady, but she is a bit older, about thirty years old. , and I noticed she was wearing a wedding ring."

"You know that if you make up some stories that make people look bad, you can easily make money as a new student, right? And then you have to work part-time in a place like that? The pay is pitiful, you can't make a loud noise, and you can't even scold an idiot when you meet him. ? How big a pair of waves does that teacher have to make you make this decision?" Jason looked at Tommy like a monster, and couldn't figure out why he wanted to work part-time in a place like the library to ask for trouble, some Idiots always have endless questions to ask, which can annoy people to the point where they want to shout and swear.

Tommy smiled and asked Jason: "So you are not going to work part-time? Continue to practice five-finger activities in the dormitory?"

Jason shrugged: "No, I'm going to work part-time at the Spanish restaurant in Love's apartment. There is a very beautiful girl working part-time there, and she can enjoy the unsold food for free. The food in that restaurant is delicious."

Generally speaking, as long as college students are not really rich, they are willing to find a part-time job, so that they can support themselves while exercising their various social skills. When chatting with girls, they will not only show off their bed skills. .

The reason why Tommy went to the library part-time is that the work in the library requires the use of computers, which allows him to exercise his computer operation skills while working. Operating computers today is not as simple as it will be in 2022. Simply use a touch screen or mouse clicks. It can be solved in a few clicks. Nowadays, most people who master how to use a commercial software can basically get a white-collar job in a large company, but don’t think that mastering how to use a software is easy. After all, software usage The manual is as thick as a dictionary and needs to be sold separately as a professional book.

"If there were no pretty girls there, but only delicious food, would you work part-time?" Tommy got up from the bed, smiled at Jason and extended his fist: "See you tonight, stud brother who likes pretty girls."

Jason bumped fists with Tommy: "I refuse to answer this philosophical question because I am not a philosophy major. See you tonight, the Cowherd brothers who like middle-aged and older women."