Are these people deluding themselves, or just scamming?
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/enraz/coder_nee...
When I first learned to program (err, actually just to press buttons in an IDE, anyway), I had a "great" idea how you could make a site like Facebook, just simpler and better. Thankfully the friend I explained my idea to was more sensible than me at the time.