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abemishler

I for one would. They are leaving money on the table by not serving burgers anytime anybody wants a burger.
I remember buying books to learn a piece of software (whether COTS or a development library) and inevitably things would go off the rails and not work for some reason. Since then I have learned to be skeptical of written tutorials and prefer the video approach whenever possible. With video I can see the exact steps and don't have to worry as much that I'll get stuck. So I consider efficiency a little differently. I don't mind scrubbing a video if I have to. In the end, I get more value from sources that demonstrably work and reliably teach rather than wasting time on an n step tutorial only to find that step m doesn't work the way the author claims and having to thrash around for the real solution.
This TEDxCSU talk [0] is a couple years old but directly addresses the 10,000 hour claim.

[0] https://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY

Re:The Neoclassical Habitat Server Project on Saturday February 11, 2017 @09:36PM (#13626318)
Coincidentally I just finished watching the postmortem of Lucasfilm Games[0] from GDC14 where this is a topic

[0] https://youtu.be/-8AGwZ5mp_U

Re:Wine 2.0 released on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:41PM (#13477677)
Re:iOS 7.1 on Monday March 10, 2014 @03:20PM (#7375092)
iPhone 4 users BEWARE. My brother just updated his iPhone 4 to 7.1 and afterwards his phone wouldn't boot up fully. His phone is in recovery mode and his only option now is to do a factory reset.

Disguise Yourself with CyberFlare

Earlier this summer we learned that our online activity is being recorded and analyzed. Some believe encrypting traffic is the answer to preserving privacy(1), however, encryption is complicated(2) and its real-world efficacy debatable(3). A new project, CyberFlare, eschews encryption for simply creating noise with artificial traffic which makes it hard to identify trends in genuine traffic....

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