beeffective's comments

Like me, I already left. I lived in Hayward and commuted to the south bay while my wife commuted north a little bit. It was rotten and awful. I hate everything about living in the Bay Area and I love it here in Sacramento. I also lived on the peninsula. It was nicer but twice the cost per sq foot to rent and a lot more traffic to deal with during regular hours.

Towards the opposite end of the spectrum, I have too many hobbies and I usually don't focus enough on work (software development), but that may be caused by wanting mental stimulus combined with physical activity (or being outside).

To add on to your list, I really enjoy golfing, woodworking (building outdoor furniture), bbqing & cooking, tomato gardening, jeeping, fishing, hunting, and skiing.

I would say you are wrong because legal AR15s, even California legal AR15s with bullet buttons, have become popular among all types of gun owners. It's the #1 selling rifle. There are many variants and styles for hunting, such as the 6.8, 6.5 and .308 (also known as the AR10).

Most people who are anti-gun, such as yourself due to your "BS amendment" comment, are usually very ignorant or fearful of guns.

As a very middle of the road type of guy, I joined NRA and 2nd Amendment Foundation for the first time a few months ago because of too many people like you who are too easily influenced by the media in the past 6 months.

Why doesn't the pay reflect the supply and demand? I consider myself a decent developer with 9 years of industry experience in several domains and my salary is only $88k. It sounds like based on the demand, I should be pulling in a lot more.

In my personal experience, if this question were posed to me by a project team, I would ask questions about usage and purpose (granted it would be more business-like such as given an array of 10 million transcript credits, does employee X exist for the Code of Conduct training). If knowing whether a particular number (or item) existed in a large array, maybe we then create a boolean and check during inserts/updates/deletes. Who knows, lets ask more questions and understand each other. Not every developer works on cutting edge Google Search algorithms in lonely cubicle all day by his lonesome.

As a developer, understanding why and coming to an efficient solution (in terms of development hours and customer satisfaction) is about problem decomposition and problem solving skills, not being an algorithm expert.

As a developer, I find that designing the web app that I'm developing for makes the effort/project much more enjoyable.

Web app development is the type where you do things differently for every project. Going from writing ajax handlers on the client and server, to using KnockoutJS (or Backbone or Angular), is extremely fun because it lets me focus more on the UI.

Exactly this, except I've only been developing for 8 years and don't have my own company. I find myself getting into new hobbies because of the actual creation. I've built my own redwood planter boxes for tomato plants this week and it's my first year planting tomatoes. I have 8 plants and I'm obsessed. Golf is similar, but instead of creation, it's about troubleshooting what I did wrong and fixing it. My handicap has dropped from 18 to 13 and that's before buying new wedges (I've only used sand and pitching if any of you are golfers). My self-taught mentality is holding me back from going out and getting a golf lesson, much like how I teach myself new frameworks.

Pointing at lack of firearms regulations in the US correlating to higher firearm violence does not imply causation. We had an assault weapons ban for 10 years that did nothing, and given that 98% of murders are from handguns (in 2011) and DC banned handguns for 30 years, you would expect DC to have low handgun violence, but it does not.

As others have said, those 2088 hours a year in my job aren't deliberate practice, and as a software engineer, I spend about 2 hours a day or less doing software development. However, after 8 years of professional software development, I'm finally reaching a point of not only being highly skilled, but also establishing a track record of influence and communication due to my increasing confidence. The project experience and successes have been a huge help, but only when I spend the mental energy to engage in my "meetings" and "email" that relate to my new projects.

In other words, I can see the benefit of taking all aspects of my job seriously, even meetings, because they are the backbone of influencing others on your ideas/design as well as fully understanding all aspects of a project.

Edit: Sorry I just noticed you are the original poster.

The regulations and fees around building a house are ridiculous in California. I would love to build a house of my dreams, which would be about 1500sq ft, big garage, on 1+ acre and energy efficient. I could easily afford to buy the improved land in Northern California with cash right now (1-5 acres). But there is one problem, the local governments have made that impossible unless I'm rich. It's $60k+ just to break ground on a piece of land that already has a building pad, water meter and electricity, all due to fees. The Department of Transportation mitigation fee is $37k alone. I'm not sure if these are liberal or conservative policies, tighter regulations due to unions, or environmental regulations (see SF Bay Area regulations in Contra Costa county - sorry no source).

So in the mean time, my only choice of buying my first home is some piece of shit stucko house in the suburbs.

Nice article, I would be curious how it is implemented and how you setup the rules for alerting.

I'm working with Microsoft's Semantic Logging Application Block to standardize error logging and auditing across all my .NET apps. It utilizes the built-in Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to capture events written by any application, and writes them to a destination of your choice (db, file, etc). .NET 4.5 includes a new EventSource class that I inherit from, and simply call WriteEvent() and the message goes off to ETW. Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/agile/archive/2013/02/07/embracing-s...

I would like to add heartbeats to my design, in addition to just error logging, tracing and http auditing.

Your comment offends me, but on a light note, for every 1 developer doing the enterprise overengineering crap, there is a dozen of us C# guys who are doing the opposite where I work.

I realize other creates think and feel, but I have great appreciation for the meat I take on my own whenever I shoot a deer, elk or turkey. I gutted, skinned and butchered my first deer that I hunted because I wanted to better learn and appreciate the adventure, process and amount of food I then acquired.

There is a writer/hunter who better explains what I'm trying to say, and he currently hosts The Meat Eater on Sportsman's channel (he also host the Wild Within on A&E for one season). Here is a short debate he had with a vegan, warning: it's a very level-headed and rational dialogue: http://youtu.be/J2N0Utg7KYE