Hearing the advice of someone who's been out there is always a good idea.

Don't. It works with normal people but some co-workers are conniving little backstabbing bitches. How to Win Friends and Influence People is the wrong book. You would be better off reading The Prince. Or the section on how to handle spies in the Art of War.

Treasury bonds.

That's what you say but job seeking is a full time job. It's not as easy as you claim and some interviews happen during working hours.

You should never be in a position where you cannot say NO though. Avoid being in that position.

Its like he said. You don't say a number you say a RANGE.

That's bonkers.

I also want to add that the binary downloads service SourceForge that provided was one of the few remaining distinguishing useful features in it.

s/News.com/Download.com

What was the problem? Was it the bandwidth costs? AFAIK most of the files you can download from SourceForge are actually not served by SourceForge itself but by mirrors. So those guys are shouldering the brunt of the costs not you. By doing something like this I would not be surprised if some of the mirrors decided they do not want to work with you anymore.

If you wanted the extra revenue by bundling ads with applications you should have done this explicitly with a prior public notification of this being done. For example News.com for a couple of years now bundles their own installer with the downloads they provide. I've seen other places do the same thing. But you should always be able, as a user, to disable the adware installation. Also the user should know before downloading a binary that it has adware in it. Not stealth adding it without people knowing about it. Last but not least hijacking someone else's account for these shenanigans was quite pathetic and fail. This was all handled quite poorly.

A lot of people have been leaving SourceForge as is because it has worse Git integration than other more recent sites and this is just another nail in the coffin.

I was actually quite enthusiastic about the movie. Remember all the early promos we saw of the movie, people even made their own light bikes and the like? The original Tron had a lot of fandom despite not doing so good on its original screening. The guys who worked on the movie exploited this brilliantly. Especially their promo on Comic-Con. They also made a movie that fans liked. You could also tell it was done by people who actually liked Tron.

It's a matter of timing. The sequel came at a good time when there wasn't anything quite like it out. Now there's just too many sci-fi movies around.

Well "Edge of Tomorrow" is the Hollywoodized version of the JAPANESE light novel "All You Need Is Kill".

Not that this makes it a bad movie though.

It probably bombed because it had Cruise in it. Or they just couldn't get the message out. I dunno.

Oh the idea behind Communism, i.e. state capitalism, is bound to show up again. As everything becomes datamined and interconnected someone is going to want to control every single aspect of everyone's economic lives (and maybe more than just the economic aspects). All it takes is lack of vigilance and moral fiber.

Communism itself was not that new as an economic organization. It was basically a palace economy with fancier agitprops.

This is why we eventually will need to revamp the fiscal system and provide everyone with a base income from the state. In Athens their economy worked great because the Athenian state could fund itself from the income in the silver mines near Athens. The mines were worked on by slaves. The people were paid by the state to act as judges, show up in the parliament to vote, etc. Remember every man born in Athens could vote. Then these people used that money to pay for their own slaves.

It might end up a bit like the economy of Abu Dhabi, i.e. somewhat dysfunctional, but it beats the alternatives.

That's why we have the free software movement dude. There are similar movements in hardware as well.