DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot) was a MMO back in the 2000's similar to World of Warcraft. I was in a top PvP guild on the Palomides server called Insurrection. Insurrection was only ~12 people and to properly farm for the good end game items it was necessary to link up with the other top guilds on the server. I routinely ran dragon / dungeon raids of 40-60 and learned how to coordinate large groups of people toward a set of goals and then divide the spoils (as well as keep those who didn't get loot interested in the next raids).

I used that skillset to start to manage small teams at startups, then larger teams, and finally I was running 200-500 people across several teams @ Zynga during its heyday.

Socrates was sentenced to death because he was a humongous asshole to everyone in Athens and they finally got fed up with him.

Socrates would literally challenge people in the streets to debates and then destroy them with logic, which might be ok for the random Joe Athens fella but not to the high ranking military and political figures he liked to pick on. Eventually enough people with power got sick of being made to look foolish and had him put on trial, which he took as a total farce and continued to make fun of everyone during the trial. The whole "corrupting the youth" part of the accusations against him where just there as a reason to have the trial.

He was found guilty by jury and then during his sentencing arguments he managed to piss even more people off such that MORE JURORS VOTED TO KILL HIM THAN VOTED TO CONVICT.

So in summation, Socrates was not killed because people found something external to blame their kids behavior on. He was killed because he didn't know when to stop being a massive dick to people in power.

I've had this problem for years - a prison building contractor in Africa uses my gmail address for many of his accounts payable. I get invoices all the time for toilets, timecard machines, tons of concrete, lumber, copper tubing, etc. It's actually quite interesting, and while he's gotten a few second/third notices on payments, it always seems to be get resolved.

I tried to fix the problem years ago but no one would respond, so I finally gave up trying.

...because I spent 1.5 years of my life @ MP3.com running reports and collecting data as discovery for the lawsuits of record companies, publishers, individual artists, and whomever owned any percentage of any playback rights in any country (and yes this means people who owned less that 1% of a song's rights in Turkmenistan).

Clearing the system cache significantly sped up my Nexus 7

http://9to5google.com/2014/11/19/2012-edition-nexus-7-running-slow-after-installing-lollipop-this-might-help/

While I would agree with the OP that a lot of these projects target the needs of large, FB-like companies, Reactjs and Flux (Flux is a pseudo-framework for React) are really nice alternatives to heavier options like Angular and Backbone. If you're building with JS on the front end then definitely take a look; the speed advantage over Angular is ridiculous.

2 clarifications for the summary, since I was the 10th engineer at MP3.com and worked there from 1999-2003:

- We lost to the record labels/publishers not because we gave people access to their music, but because we compiled the music library and streamed it without paying the labels/publishers any royalties. Our strategy was to buy a copy of the CD ourselves, rip it, then claim fair use doctrine when we streamed it to someone else who also owned it. This was a supposed grey area in the law that got cleared up REAL FAST in a media-friendly district court. Services that you see now are paying royalties on what they stream. MP3.com later sued its lawyers that gave the advice on the so-called "grey area" it tried to go through.

- We where not a Silicon Valley company, we where in San Diego. Perhaps if we where SV we would of gotten better legal advice :p

NFL2k did look amazingly awesome at the time. I remember standing in a mall watching the computer play itself, Eagles vs Rams. The Rams threw for a touchdown and the guy standing next to me turns and with a straight face says, "I didn't think the Rams would pull that out". To this day I don't know if the guy thought he was watching a real game or not.