后发劣势
在电商行业干久了，经历过多家公司，就会发现：行业内所有产品都在向淘宝靠拢，内部方案沟通，经常被cue的问题就是「淘宝怎么做的」，如果做国际电商，镜像就是「亚马逊怎么做的」。
这些公司通常也会定向招很多有阿里工作经历的人，希望更快的把淘宝的能力抄全了，恨不得把淘宝10年积累的基建，压缩到一两年抄完。然后：
● 系统复杂且多线并发，沟通成本巨大，如果人手不足，更是灾难性的，最后每个系统都只做到50分，勉强够用还总出bug。
● 产品功能是否与自身的产品阶段相匹配，曾经在淘宝有用现在是否仍然有用，这些问题得不到充分的论证。
曾在支付宝工作的朋友分享过一件事：她在支付宝负责小程序的一个方向，老板让她照着微信小程序做即可，然后她自己打听到微信都不做这个方向了。什么都抄，就是产品行业的FOMO1。
经济学中有个概念叫「后发劣势2」，指后发国家模仿发达国家的技术与工业模式实现快速发展，但没有制度基础，往往留下非常多的隐患，不利于长期发展。这个概念对互联网行业抄袭也适用。
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out ↩
2. https://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/%E5%90%8E%E5%8F%91%E5%8A%A3%E5%8A%BF ↩
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在电商行业干久了，经历过多家公司，就会发现：行业内所有产品都在向淘宝靠拢，内部方案沟通，经常被cue的问题就是「淘宝怎么做的」，如果做国际电商，镜像就是「亚马逊怎么做的」。
这些公司通常也会定向招很多有阿里工作经历的人，希望更快的把淘宝的能力抄全了，恨不得把淘宝10年积累的基建，压缩到一两年抄完。然后：
● 系统复杂且多线并发，沟通成本巨大，如果人手不足，更是灾难性的，最后每个系统都只做到50分，勉强够用还总出bug。
● 产品功能是否与自身的产品阶段相匹配，曾经在淘宝有用现在是否仍然有用，这些问题得不到充分的论证。
曾在支付宝工作的朋友分享过一件事：她在支付宝负责小程序的一个方向，老板让她照着微信小程序做即可，然后她自己打听到微信都不做这个方向了。什么都抄，就是产品行业的FOMO1。
经济学中有个概念叫「后发劣势2」，指后发国家模仿发达国家的技术与工业模式实现快速发展，但没有制度基础，往往留下非常多的隐患，不利于长期发展。这个概念对互联网行业抄袭也适用。
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out ↩
2. https://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/%E5%90%8E%E5%8F%91%E5%8A%A3%E5%8A%BF ↩
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Photos Page
As you might have noticed, I added a photos page on this site. Something I wanted to do for a very long time but always procrastinating.
During certain periods of my life, photography was my greatest passion, just as much as I do today with Open Source and programming. Instagram was once a delightful, minimalist platform for photo sharing that I frequently used - until Meta's acquisition changed everything. While I could even tolerate the algorithms, ads, and short videos, the recent change of profile photo grids' aspect ratio from square to 4:5 was the final straw - an arrogant decision that impacts every user's content without proper solutions provided.
I am not sure if anger or disappointment are the right words to describe my feelings. But certainly, I am super lucky to be a frontend developer at the same time - so I can leverage my skills to build my own website and host my photos here.
So I requested to download all my data from Instagram (it takes roughly a day to process in my case), and then import them to the website. I use
Gratefully, the downloaded data is rather easy to process, and the photos track back to 2015. It's an intresting feeling to go though all those photos again. Technically speaking, my old photos are not honestly reaching my standards today. But they hold a ton of memories for me, so I kept most of them, hope you don't mind :P
Here here you have some of my recent photos:
It's a shame that the image quality from Instagram is pretty bad, as they compressed photos a lot upon posting. For that, I might consider to replace some of them with higher quality source I have in the future, but for now I think it's a good enough start.
That said, I wish could get back the routine of posting my photos often (as I am always saying 😅), especially now I have my own platform for that.
Thanks for reading! And I hope you find some of my photos interesting. Chesse!
via Anthony Fu (author: [email protected] (Anthony Fu))
As you might have noticed, I added a photos page on this site. Something I wanted to do for a very long time but always procrastinating.
During certain periods of my life, photography was my greatest passion, just as much as I do today with Open Source and programming. Instagram was once a delightful, minimalist platform for photo sharing that I frequently used - until Meta's acquisition changed everything. While I could even tolerate the algorithms, ads, and short videos, the recent change of profile photo grids' aspect ratio from square to 4:5 was the final straw - an arrogant decision that impacts every user's content without proper solutions provided.
I am not sure if anger or disappointment are the right words to describe my feelings. But certainly, I am super lucky to be a frontend developer at the same time - so I can leverage my skills to build my own website and host my photos here.
So I requested to download all my data from Instagram (it takes roughly a day to process in my case), and then import them to the website. I use
sharp to process the images and compress them with this script. It semi-automatically helps me to manage the photos without me to worry about the image sizes for hosting etc.Gratefully, the downloaded data is rather easy to process, and the photos track back to 2015. It's an intresting feeling to go though all those photos again. Technically speaking, my old photos are not honestly reaching my standards today. But they hold a ton of memories for me, so I kept most of them, hope you don't mind :P
Here here you have some of my recent photos:
It's a shame that the image quality from Instagram is pretty bad, as they compressed photos a lot upon posting. For that, I might consider to replace some of them with higher quality source I have in the future, but for now I think it's a good enough start.
That said, I wish could get back the routine of posting my photos often (as I am always saying 😅), especially now I have my own platform for that.
Thanks for reading! And I hope you find some of my photos interesting. Chesse!
via Anthony Fu (author: [email protected] (Anthony Fu))
