I'll reiterate what everyone here has said: you're not going to change the world right now, and putting yourself under that kind of pressure is bad for you. If you enjoy coding and building things, then find a company to work for where you can hone your skills and make decent money doing what you love. The best part of that is after your work day is done, so are you, you can then spend some time chilling and living your life. It's not sustainable to spend your entire waking day working and learning, you need to balance it or you'll lose it.
Being an entrepreneur isn't for everyone. There's no shame in admitting that it isn't for you. There's plenty of great work out there that doesn't require you putting it all on your shoulders.
This is awesome! I had no idea that you could programmatically do this (I still consider myself a novice even though I've been professionally coding for two years). Very, very cool!
I upgraded last night and haven't had any kinks. The only thing I had to do was re-set my maven environment variables for some reason (and was prompted to install a Java runtime when I opened IntelliJ, but that was an automatic process).
Other than that...no kinks. It's been a pretty smooth transition...just trying to get used to having menus on both monitors (which is AWESOME)
See, my first computer was a Tandy 1000 and it just ran off of floppies and RAM. No hard drive. My mind was blown when we upgraded to a Windows 3.1 system that not only had a hard drive, but also a 3.5" floppy drive. WHOA, SMALLER DISKS.
Yea, pretty much. That's why you had backups of any important software (copying floppies was a really fun process). Once the disk died, you were screwed if you didn't have a backup copy of it.
I would say just start programming in your spare time and then look for a smaller technology consulting company to begin working at. We've got a lot of senior folks who make really good money as "architects" who use project management skills along with coding, spending their time about half and half. It certainly isn't a lost ten years, you've gained some awesome skills and frankly programming is like riding a bike!
I downloaded and played the game one morning as fast as I could to get the free burrito and never touched it again. I didn't watch the video, I didn't read any of the crap on there...I basically just did the bare minimum and got my free burrito.
I have a feeling that's most people who downloaded that game. I can't imagine it brought back in a ton of revenue.
But, I could be completely wrong! Maybe most people aren't heartless bastards who just want a free burrito!
I really need to get myself a Raspberry Pi. It seems like me and my kids could have a lot of fun with it.
I'm actually almost considering getting one, a cheap monitor/keyboard/mouse and setting it up for the kids to use as their own computer...seems like it could be a cheap investment to get them to learn how to use Linux.
Well, all I've written since college has been Java, so this is all new to me. I've only briefly checked out Ruby and Python, and not enough to really know that much about either language.