Coders code because there is something about it that they love. I am not sure if it is passion/curiosity/interest or what. But when we have a free moment after school or after work or after the kids go to bed, we think of something to code or we work on something we want to code.

I believe that anyone can learn to write code in 6 months. But they can't become a quality Software Developer in that time. They aren't going to become experts in 5 years like those who have passion for it.

Why won't they become experts very fast? Remember the 10,000 hour rule. You are expert when you have put 10,000 hours on something. That is 5 years right?

Wrong!
Sure a job gives you 2000 hours a year, but since many coders only code for only part of their job due to meetings, interruptions, etc.. coders usually only get 1200 to 1500 hours of coding time a year at work. So it is going to take between six and nine years for them to become experts.

However, many of us with passion code at night and on weekends. We work longer hours at work. I know people who code for 16 hours straight some days. They are coding more like 2500 to 3000 hours a year. So they reach their 1000 hours in 3-1/3 to 4 years.

I just posted this but I'll post again.

California should do two things:

1. Desalinization
2. Increase water upstream

The first one is straight forward. You take the water from the ocean, remove the salt and other impurities and pump it into agriculture.

The second one is pretty easy too. California gets a lot of its water from States just to the East. Did you know that there a simple solution that increases water from Utah to California? Pump salt water to the Great Salt Lake. Keep the Great Salt Lake overflowing. You don't have to desalinize the water. You only have to sterilize it. The Great Salt Lake is actually a very good lake for evaporation because it covers a large area and is not extremely deep. Water evaporates, fills the Rocky Mountains with more water, which runs to the rivers and then on to California. This helps Utah, Nevada and CA.

Also, in the event of a flood of the Great Salt Lake (happens like every 20 years), the pipe can reverse and pump water out.

Desalinization: solution to near unlimited water

Am I the only one who notices that California borders the Pacific Ocean?
Am I the only one who things that California should desalinate the water, and pump from the ocean?
California doesn't have water because they just want to steal water from other states at a cheaper cost than it would take to produce their own.

Ok, so desalinization is too expensive?

What if California could increase the water supply without desalinization? If only there was a Great Salt Lake a few states to the east that had a natural evaporation system to desalinate water. This natural evaporation system would increase water that flows from the Rocky Mountains mountains to California. Then California could pump Ocean salt water into such a lake, keeping it full so more water is in the rivers running toward California.

Now, are their problems to solve to make these solutions work? Sure. But they are solvable.

If you break the rules you get more scrutinized?

Wow! That isn't far. (Dripping with sarcasm) The world doesn't work that way! I am shocked and appalled.

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Move along.

Nothing new to see here and nothing than really violates your rights or privacy.

Here is what I would do: 1. Release Zelda and other Nintendo only brands on other platforms, but with characters like Disney Infinity. 2. Make a Zelda movie series. Seriously epic movies, like Lord of the Rings. Or 1. Convince Microsoft or Sony or some other company (Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, Tivo, etc...) to buy you. Microsoft is imagining the XBox being a Video and Game Console. Your whole media center. Someone else who wants that market could snatch up Nintendo.

This is actually going to change the publishing game. It may take time to roll this out, but soon, novels will have to be uploaded digitally to agents and publishing houses electronically. They will buy this software and let it "proofread" the authors work. Only if the book has all the qualities of a best seller, will it be read by the agent or publishing house (or one of their lackeys). Then an online site will rise that allows authors to check their work before they submit it.

My brother built a computer for a guy who just graduated college with a degree in Computer Science. This was back in about 2001. He had dial-up internet and wanted to upgrade to DSL, but he had chosen to get the motherboard without the onboard NIC because it was cheaper. So he needed a network card. I had an extra one, so doing my brother a favor, I took it to him. I handed the NIC to him and he gave me a dear in headlights look and started stammering. I got the pleasure of teaching this Computer Scientist how to install a PCI NIC into his desktop. Such a simple task. Shameful that you can get a degree in computer science without knowing much about computers. I think his degree taught him to write java code and that was pretty much it. Ironically, this person was an "exceptionally dull weirdo" but was exactly the opposite of someone who should become a software developer.

I know that you always here that speed causes many accidents but what they don't tell you is that most accidents where speed was partially at fault does NOT mean that going over the speed limit actually occurred. Lets say you are on a freeway and a big SUV/Semi/Whatever is in front of you. You come around a bend and low and behold the traffic is stopped, but it takes you a second longer to see it because of the big SUV in front of you. The speed limit is 65 and you are actually only going 60, you try to break but you impact the vehicle in front of you at about 20 mph. Many freeway accidents are rear ends. The speed minimum on a freeway is 45 MPH. The reason speed was a factor in this accident is because cars were actually going below the speed minimum. However, all you will here is that the driver was going to fast. Well, they were going 5 miles per hour under the speed limit. Now accidents in cities usually occur at intersections. You hear that the driver was going to fast as they entered the intersection, but what you don't hear is that the speed limit was 30 mph and the driver was going 42 mph. Sorry, but a governor is not going to prevent the speeder from going 42 mph in a 30 mph. Even if, as the article says, it reads the speed limit sign. Well, in the city there is not a speed limit sign everywhere. I can often enter a road and go a mile before seeing a speed limit sign. So the governor is only going to prevent accidents that occur on freeways by drivers going over the posted freeway speed limit. Well, go do your research and you will find those type of accidents are some of the least common. So no, governors on cars will probably not reduce hardly accidents. In fact, driving 80 mph has proven to keep people awake on long freeway drives, so what you are likely to see, at a controlled 60 mph speed, is a lot more drousy drivers falling asleep. What will happen when the number of accidents by drowsy drivers increase?

Anybody read Anthem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella) The society in that book felt light bulbs would take the jobs from the candle workers.

I like to drive. But I also like to get things done. A two hour drive to my parents, (4 hours when you add both ways) seems like such a waste of time. There is so much I could do with my time. My kids are usually watching some Disney/Pixar movie that I can't watch. It would be nice to watch it. I usually want to write something (I am both an Author and a Software Developer so by write, I could mean code, blog article, or fiction). Also, I have five classes left in my Masters of Computer Science, so homework during driving time would rock. Even my ten minute commute to work each day (I know it is short) I could get a lot done.

I do. It is included in Windows 8. It is easy to use.

Actually I used to time them and the previews usually lasted 11 to 19 minutes, with the majority being 15. I wish I had my excel spreadsheet to show you but to be honest, I haven't tracked the time one since about '08, but I have taken notice that the minutes have been pretty much the same. I once times a 21 minute long preview session - the longest. So while he exaggerated at 30 minutes, you maybe be understating the amount by saying only 7 minutes. However, this actually varies by franchise and by location because some theaters have local ads, some don't, etc...So it is quite possible neither of you are innacurate for your area. Also, I love the Megaplex Theatres in Utah because I can reserve my seats. I can arrive 10 minutes after the listed start time and still be "on time" before the actual move starts. And I can take outside food in.

Wow. Your magizine is pirated and posted around the world for you? I hope you have good ads and links in your articles so you can take advantage of all that free advertising.

It is pretty easy to screen share with many tools, such as LANDesk's Management Gateway Remote Control or LogMeIn's http://join.me/ website. The only problem with screen sharing is that after you hang up, if you get interrupted and don't get back to the issue, you are relying on memory. Try to video capture the remote control session.

Everyone always wants step by step or screen shots. Why not use a tool that give you all of that. Camtasia Studio or similar software that captures a video of the screen. Train the users to capture a video of reproducing the bug. Then have them post the video in the bug report. Other than needing plenty of storage to handle a lot of videos, this is actually quite a good solution. Any bug that is submitted without a video is returned to the submitter requesting they duplicate it. Along with fixing the bug, you are going to watch what the users click and what they do and you might actually realize that as a developer you never really understood the user before.