Not lonely program ape is shameful

Liu Zhenyu is a technical cow, previously served as a win-time general manager of the Technology development department, A8 Music Laboratory director. An alternative long hair and clear-facial features, Liu Zhenyu has an absolutely memorable exterior.

The first time I was dealing with Liu Zhenyu was to ask him (he was the judge of the event) about our global maker marathon a few days ago. He answered me a few questions with an e-mail. The mail was sent at three O ' midnight, very sensual, and a lot of metaphors and parallelism. Words and sentences have some old-fashioned scholar "sour" taste, small series then asked him: "Why I read from your between the lines of a recitation of the fan son?" He replied: "Sorry, this is a bad way to change." In view of the fact that he was a technology geek, he was arbitrarily labelled a "crossroads of technology and humanity".

His reply was "very good" when he was interviewed. See. He was not wronged by the small series. It's really very sour. But in the actual chat process He did not see a trace of text in the literati gas, logic clear. Rigorous thinking, and close to the theme. The enthusiasm and convergence of the geek were revealed.

The picture is Liu Zhenyu in his office.

Photo shoot than I look good, in order to fit his rock and roll temperament, small to add a Gothic wind filter.

　　Craftsmen

In today's environment where everyone is unable to breathe. "Artisan" is definitely a courtesy to the technical people. The mission of craftsmen is to make the work better, to pursue the technical excellence, with the market and users to maintain a reasonable distance.

Pinnacle Technology is mainly for developers or manufacturers of products. such as brush machine products, development boards and so on. and consumer electronics consumer-oriented, the latter mainly pay attention to a footrace, high-speed iterations, large quantities, in the village of Shenzhen (or whatever else), peak technology such a more than 10-person small team assumed to do consumer grade products, texture is very difficult to protect, Liu Zhenyu not willing to do too rough things. For the geeks who have played countless top-notch products like this, the stuff is too rough to be "out of hand". I'm sorry for the little pride in my heart.

Liu Zhenyu and his partner are very different personalities. His partner has smart business acumen and the same eloquence as crosstalk actors. Can handedly all the negotiations with customers and suppliers. Deal with everything and the "human" relationship. So Liu Zhenyu has plenty of room to write his own code quietly. Perhaps the program ape such a creature is better to have a little loneliness ability to write a good product.

The fate of Liu Zhenyu and code dates back to 1988, when he knocked out the first line of "Hello World" on his father's computer.

In a world of very many people. A computer can be a logical thing, so it can be very difficult to understand the shock it originally brought to people.

Why did the vast majority of people exposed to computers be so surprised? "You input a thing, the computer will give you a thing." It was very novel at the time. Just like a light switch, you press it and the light is on, which makes the child very excited, but the feedback is very single. It's very quick to get bored. Computers are not the same. It feeds back what depends on what you enter, and there is a vast and expected world behind it. ”

Later Liu Zhenyu University read the computer. Soon graduated from the time also in Shenzhen founded a small company, to do ERP software for small and medium-sized enterprises. It's just that it's a very advanced thing. In 1999, Shenzhen Small and medium-sized enterprises are still bookkeeping. Using the human brain to manage the supply chain, ERP has no market. Liu Zhenyu very quickly shut down the company to a Shenzhen company to do technical work.

　　"Introverted" program Ape

"Human hypothesis can appreciate loneliness, then loneliness is also a kind of beauty."

"Social is a kind of ability, solitude is a more important ability." When you are a person, you will not feel bored, lonely, have the ability to talk with yourself?

The very technical acid in the citation was derived from the comments made by the editor of the university textbook on Su Shi. The reason for this is to Liu Zhenyu with the "introverted". Liu Zhenyu concept, the outward-looking personality relies on external feedback to obtain self-recognition, a pile into the heap will be like playing chicken blood more and more spirit, and "introverted" people are mainly dependent on self-awareness. When you are with the crowd, you are constantly consuming yourself. Liu Zhenyu self-thinking is introverted people, his schedule is more fixed, every day after noon to the company, the morning at home to deal with things. "The staff were very friendly and helpful." I can have time to think. ”

Here comes the long hair again. A man with long hair, or a very niang, or a painter, or rock, Liu Zhenyu is the third. When he was in college, he started to touch Rock, play the guitar, play drums, and later set up a band, now because of the pinnacle of technology. The band is naturally unable to operate, but sometimes it plays with a guitar. "Knocking on the code and doing something is a drain. People's spirit is free to pour in the product, playing music can let me calm down, focus on their own heart. ”

Liu Zhenyu look at Lao Zhuang's philosophy, there are some studies on Jung's psychology. That's all very sound. Saying that he "stands at the crossroads of technology and humanity" is not really a joke.

　　Is it humanities or "sour"?

Liu Zhenyu's father is a comparative literature. may be affected by the father, Liu Zhenyu was very fond of literature from a young age, when the third grade began to publish articles in the press, the first payment has 5 yuan, which at that time but a sum of money. Gao Gao when the popular writing novel, Liu Zhenyu also writes, writes the side to the classmate circulation. "Serial" has to be enjoyed. The person who didn't expect the novel to come back was the head teacher. This kind of work, Liu Zhenyu without being a class teacher education a pass. The novel died, and the passion for writing was hit. Just today, Han also published a blog post recalling the math teacher slander "cheating" and thus rejected the experience of mathematics. The small part has to be off-the-ground feeling: The past we have accepted the way of education is really too rough.

Speaking of this matter, Liu Zhenyu in the heart is not without regret it? "Plus later interest shifts. Crazy fan on the radio, there is no how to write a word, until now the language level still stay in the era of Gao. The rhetoric and grammar in the email I sent back to you are a bit out of date, plus it's midnight writing. More than the ' sour ' taste. ”

　　Lean Team

Their team is also very wonderful, more than 10 are all big attacking, not half a woman. "Even the chief is a man?" "Our administration has to be a cashier and buy office supplies." This girl can do it, but our administration has to repair the computer, to buy electronic components. Sometimes I have to move things. The average girl can't do it. ”

A hardware team only has more than 10 people (small series remember is 12), is very lean. Liu Zhenyu said he also thought the company was just as good. The productivity is very high, it is very good to assume that it will remain so "thin". But according to the current company's planning and the company's staff now the burden of work, may need to add some additional staff.

It is not easy to find the right person for this type of company, which is a personal and several job. In addition to working skills. Liu Zhenyu the candidate has a self-motivated and motivating mechanism. "I wish he had the desire to make a thing and to struggle. "Because most people in the company do mental work. The brain is so tight that there is no good work to come out. Therefore, team management also very "put", do not punch clock, flexible work hours. The KPI's assessment is also relatively extensive (in fact, when hiring the card tighter, the latter will omit very much). Team of more than 10 people. Knowing each other about what the other person is probably doing, it is almost the same natural operation, do not need a very prominent management style.

　　The ideal of a South-school entrepreneur

The entrepreneurs here in Shenzhen are more grounded than Earth gas. Most of the start on the "Survive" purpose to start a business, a firm footing and then think about doing some idealized things.

Peak technology after several years of business has stabilized, so they are going to do something ahead of the point, a global embedded system developers for the introduction of "Embedded prototype computer Board" (Mixtile, Chinese name "Rice too". Search can focus on them), simple to understand is more than the Raspberry Pi, Arduino more advanced Development Board. Open source China is rated as "probably the most powerful board at the moment." Liu Zhenyu and his partner have registered a "fun technology" for such a Development Board project, and Weibo has gone. Invested half of the company's resources to do it. This board has a smaller audience and may not have any commercial returns for a year or two.

" Majellan (his partner.) How can you make a loss of business with a small friend? "In the small part of the impression that his partner is more like a small rich is a business person."

" he believes me, and I believe there is a prospect in this field, and that's enough.

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Of course not so lightly. They are all over the age of love and dreaming. There are other reasons why you should choose this field besides liking it. Liu Zhenyu believes that the popularity of Raspberry Pi is a sure and not accidental result, people are more and more not satisfied with the industrial standardization of production products, there are many other personalized needs, coupled with open source software, open source hardware popularization. To build their own ultra-high-definition home theater, let home lighting and air conditioning more intimate even invented the super-horizon unmanned helicopter threshold has been very low, more and more people will choose their own DIY. Just be willing to spend some time in this field. There must be a harvest.

Not lonely program ape is shameful