The Goddess Shines on America

The architectural style of this place is almost the same as that of the headquarters. After passing through layers of unpretentious corridors, Alice saw her colleagues in an office area. It was a programmer team of 50 people, and as Andrio said, for Alice's joining, everyone broke out with enthusiasm like first love.

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

"Welcome, Alice!"

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

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

At the bustling doorway, another boy who looked like a college youth pushed Tom away: "My name is John. Tom has worked in Lockheed for seven years, and I just joined the company half a year ago. Ruth works together, Boss, are you kidding?"

Andrio was just about to answer with a smile, when Alice shook hands with John: "You just joined the company half a year ago, and you must be amazing to be able to join such a special research and development team?"

"Okay, guys, come one by one, come one by one, don't squeeze and don't make a mess!"

Routine personnel introductions, one name after another and endless handshakes, today's eight-hour work period may be severely reduced. Of course, of course, a beautiful little girl like Alice came to a studio full of single programmers, such a beautiful spring thing, let alone shrinking by eight hours, even if everyone posted it for a month salary, I believe that all bachelors also enjoy it, right?

Then, until a doctoral student in theoretical physics who claimed to have graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed Alice his computer screen, the uproar caused by this personnel change finally stopped.

The DOS system interface is full of codes, enough to make any layman's scalp tingle, but Alice really wants to see her relatives and sit at the table. Keeping her eyes on the screen, she quickly tapped the keyboard with the five fingers of her left hand, and countless codes quickly scrolled like wild bees.

"Ah, the sensor gyroscope, this is a good thing."

Without waiting for the employee to explain, Alice quickly understood everything as soon as her eyes swept across the screen: "Then this one is, your balance control system based on the gyroscope? The code is a bit complicated..."

"Is there any room for modification?"

Seeing Alice carefully and quickly scanning the program he wrote, Hank even felt a little nervous when he asked questions.

At the same time, this desk has been surrounded by colleagues, and Alice Wang is eyeing the system program written by Hank Mikauer. This is not an opportunity that can be given all the time.

"From the current point of view, it is redundant and reduces the processing speed of the system."

Alice quickly took a screenshot of a string of codes: "Look at this string, from this line to this line, the writing of this logic is somewhat repetitive."

Saying that, without waiting for the young man to ask any more questions, Alice directly took action to speak.

Then click on an interface, and tap the keyboard with both hands like flying, but in a few seconds, a string of codes that are only one-third of the length of the article was successfully released.

"Look at this of mine, and look at yours."

Alice's tone was very calm, and she didn't show any sharpness in her words: "Can it produce the same effect?"

Of course, Hank knows better than anyone else the function of the piece of code he was screenshotted by Alice, so there is no need to return to the previous page, and he stared directly at Alice's article.

Behind the two, seven or eight people's heads kept moving toward the screen.

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

But after a while, after reading the entire code, Hank shouted in amazement: "It's only as long as mine... It's only one-third of the code, but the function is exactly the same!"

"It's really like this. Hey Hank, how did you write the code? Two-thirds of the nonsense, hahaha~"

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

"The length has been reduced by two-thirds, that is, the development time has also been shortened by two-thirds? Or, in the same time, the performance has been improved by three times? My God..."

As a result, Alice was immediately invited to his computer by another employee, and Hank's computer immediately welcomed seven or eight colleagues to watch inhumanely. For a while, the whole office was full of people talking loudly, and when Andrio spoke, he had to try to raise his voice.

"Guys, guys, I will give you half an hour in total. Alice is the chief designer and chief technical consultant invited by the company, and she is not just working hard for our avionics program. I will give you half an hour , and then I will show her around the factory!"

If it is said that Oren Lockheed's idea was just to let Alice try to program the avionics first, before he had a fluent conversation with Joseph. Then when she raised countless creative rhetorical questions about the overall design of the aircraft, the scope of authority of this girl who already carried the title of "technical consultant" on her back will naturally expand...

After talking for half an hour, not even a minute was spared, when the time came, Andrio immediately pulled Alice out of the office. At the same time, more department heads emerged from various rooms in the office building. Aren't they all the people Alice had met in the meeting?

"Alice, hey Alice!"

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

Then, as Alice had already heard, another "Alice" appeared.

She walked out of the crowd shyly and nervously. She was a very ordinary woman in her early thirties, with brilliant blond hair and wearing a white lab coat.

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

Alice smiled wryly and shook hands with "Alice" and said, "It's all because our names are too common. It seems that we should call you Thompson in the future, otherwise I will go crazy."

Alice Thompson obviously relaxed a bit. When everyone was walking towards the elevator, she followed Alice, speaking a little faster than before: "But I'm thirty-three years old this year, oh, it's Ma. I graduated from the Provincial Institute of Technology, and I was taking the subject of computer hardware principles. That...Alice, when you are free, can you teach me your thinking when designing Windows?"

The compilation of computer operating systems requires programmers to have a very good grasp of the basic structure and operating principles of computer hardware. After all, it involves at least the driver issues of various hardware. Since Thompson had obtained this type of major, she must have paid more attention to the development of an entire operating system by herself than anyone else.

"No problem, it's a piece of cake, uh, big guy, the elevator doors are open."

The Lockheed Military Aircraft Research and Development Center, which occupies most of the land in the entire town, cannot be just an office building. Just behind this building, a large area of ​​land is occupied by factories.

It was also here that Alice witnessed the fuselage of the YF-22.

Of course, the semi-finished product has already been released. It is not difficult to build an iron shell. The large aircraft 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 work clothes, and a whole military aircraft production line full of heavy industry.

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

Looking at the real body of this military aircraft whose pictures will be spread all over the Internet in the entire 21st century, Alice murmured softly: "YF-22, um...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, Joseph stood beside her, and immediately replied after hearing the words: "That's right, we plan to install a 20mm caliber Vulcan cannon, but The distribution list must not be too much. But here, here, four external hardpoints, and an internal magazine that can hold nearly 2,500 pounds of ammunition, this is a big guy!"

In fact, there is no need for Joseph to explain much. Regarding 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 clear to herself.

Lockheed Martin...

Well, at the moment it has not acquired and merged with Martin-Marietta, but its status in the industry has not been affected at all. Established as early as 1912, the world's largest defense contractor, what is this concept?

Although the United States has produced countless rich people, the companies that can really exert influence on the country, or in other words, the companies that have the greatest influence on the country, will always be financial oligarchs and military-industrial complexes.

As for companies such as Microsoft that face bankruptcy every 18 months, although the amount of wealth is much higher than that of such companies, it is easy to produce tens of billionaires, but when it comes to the real influence, the world-famous Bill Gates , It may not be better than 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 national defense research institutions. And the financial oligarchs with Wall Street as their core can directly affect the existence of basic prices in the whole 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 these people who really affect everyone.

After all, a person can live without Twitter, without Facebook, without Google, without Baidu, without even turning on a computer. But can he not satisfy himself with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and live in a country surrounded by armies?

This is Alice's real goal.