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by sgoraya 16y ago
We let a mid-sized oil services company beta test our software for free and had our lawyer draft a non-compete/IP protection contract letter; For the amount and quality of feedback we received, allowing the free beta test worked out great -
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Goes almost without saying that Epic develops great game engines; however, IMHO, Crytek's cryengine at GDC was more impressive and has done a better job of rendering outdoor environments and foliage better than the Epic's Unreal engine; Un
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by sgoraya 16y ago
>> What else do you do besides computers? Wife and one child provide a lot of 'doing' :) I have a mountain bike that I ride around nearly every evening for at least an hour (a lot longer on weekends)- I ride that same bike to a gym
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The heavy price of 'trying' to track down Anonymous(arstechnica.com)
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Wall Street's new lie: Asset allocation(blogmaverick.com)
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Having bootstrapped my own business, my biggest issues were dealing with stress and 'the unknown'. I was unmarried at the time so I could handle the pay decrease and living without niceties. Cash flow was always on my mind - if a client po
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by sgoraya 16y ago
> ...there's the obvious question of what the heck do you do with all this data? If you have a crummy night sleeping you're going to wake up and have a bunch of graphs and charts that basically say "Yup, you sure had a crummy night." Y
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by sgoraya 16y ago
> my favorite place Ten Ren down in Chinatown. Ten Ren is awesome - friendly folks who also educated me about how to prepare tea and let me know that you could steep it multiple times (which was news to me at the time since I only steep
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Not a fan of blockbuster been using Netflix for a long time (I did jump ship to blockbusters online service temporarily when it first came out - the incentives were too good). To get nostalgic for a second, I will miss the experience of v
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Congratulations - The journey only gets better! I've got a 8 month baby boy and wonderful wife that are the center of my universe right now. I got a chuckle about the time invested into the childbirth process; my wife teased me about knowin
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by sgoraya 16y ago
> But I do think everyone should work at a restaurant at least once in their life. It's a customer-service learning experience and gives you an appreciation for the staff when you patronize restaurants later. Very much agreed - I worked
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by sgoraya 16y ago
I hold commodity ETF's in my taxable account. No reason behind it other than they were in my scottrade account prior to me getting behind the index fund strategy. > This is betting on the previous 30 years of financial history going fo
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by sgoraya 16y ago
I subscribe to the John Bogle school of passive index fund investing (Rebalancing once a year) - Currently have a 401k that I max out using Vanguard funds. I'm also working on saving a 12-month 'emergency' fund. When the emergency fund is
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by sgoraya 16y ago
I agree - A 'buy RubyPoints' image/link might be desirable; and similarly to parent comment, what is the major incentive here? What site(s) currently offers redemption of Rubypoints? > Thanks for the suggestion, for now if you'd like t
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by sgoraya 16y ago
We setup a presentation that included 8 different individual businesses (total headcount in the meeting/presentation was about 20); My business partner knew some of these folks and invited them to hear our offer. The others, we emailed - n
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The state of mapping API's(radar.oreilly.com)
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by sgoraya 16y ago
There is an interesting book by Adrian Slywotzky, The Art of Profitability , that goes over various profit models. I think the above example falls into 'Multi-Component' profit, in that the same product (water) is priced differently in di
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by sgoraya 16y ago
A Dell computer running Win 2K server w/ a Pentium 400MHz & 512MB RAM. Its an old server but has not crashed in years (I've rebooted for maintenance here and there, but thats it). I think I've had it since since 2001 or 2002.
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by sgoraya 16y ago
> the consumers never wrote off Netflix and that's pretty much all that matters. Not that I necessarily wrote off netflix, but I did jump ship to Blockbuster's online service for short while when it was first introduced. The ability to
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Growing my own food is something that was instilled in me by my parents - We always had fruit trees, nuts and veggies growing in our backyard. My Dad having an MS in Agronomy didnt hurt either. Currently in backyard in CA: -Plums, lemons,
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by sgoraya 16y ago
I recently went on a Ernest Hemingway bender after not having read much fiction in a while (sort of a gray area for these novels since a lot of it is based on Hemingway's experiences during the wars); I would highly recommend: For whom the
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by sgoraya 16y ago
> My point was that it's entertainment. I know it's a video game, but essentially it's no different from any other entertainment. I mean we don't have World Cup or Superbowl Stories on HN, why have the release of Starcraft? I'm sure the
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by sgoraya 16y ago
$60 for this particular release - I believe this release only includes the 'Terran' missions - subsequent releases, each $60, will include the 'Zerg' and 'Protoss' specific missions. Thats what got me...I would have purchased it but the pri
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Several good life investments, but I'll go with a monetary one...using all my savings at the time (a shade under $6k) and convincing my Dad to lend me a bit more cash so I could purchase Google's dutch auction IPO shares. I have the confirm
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Apple purchasing a developer of Flash, seemed to me, a little bit ironic; just for irony's sake I suppose. >Tough to deliver a 3D globe in a web page without Flash right now. And the rendering engine is only a small part of compiling an
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Slightly ironic since Poly9 was fairly Flash heavy (not all but many of their maps were Flash - they developed several geo related API's too).
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by sgoraya 16y ago
Depends on what you're farming - technology certainly has an impact with crops like wheat and potatoes - grapes, lettuce, melons, citrus, berries, etc. are a whole different story and require manual labor with technology having less impact.
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by sgoraya 16y ago
I agree. And to provide an anecdote, I grew up in Central CA where my father is real estate broker who specializes in farm land. When I was 12, I begged my Dad to get me a summer job and asked if one of his farmer friends could help me ou
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by sgoraya 16y ago
There was a local news story (in CA) about this initiative last night where the reporter was asking random people if they would work as a farm worker. It was interesting in that most folks said yes they would, with many citing illegal immig
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by sgoraya 16y ago
>But the world has gotten more complicated: the most dangerous traps now are new behaviors that bypass our alarms about self-indulgence by mimicking more virtuous types. That really resonated with me. Regularly looking at my phone and

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