ajju

36 ms·

331.
by ajju 15y ago
>How many days can you feed your family on 2 bags of groceries? 4 of us actually live 2 blocks from the grocery store and I think someone gets a couple of bags every other day. The "10 bags of groceries" shopping trip is actually an eff
332.
by ajju 15y ago
>Aside from that, these sorts of analyses ignore the many benefits that cars provide and the many downsides of public transit. Actually, the post doesn't ignore the benefits of cars. It says for example that an SUV is a great option for
333.
by ajju 15y ago
Couldn't you just rent a car? I haven't been to the Netherlands so may be I am missing something obvious here. In the U.S. now you can rent not just by the day, but also get hourly rentals like Zipcar or peer rentals like GetAround. It is s
334.
Cars kill cities(progressivetransit.wordpress.com)
553 points by ajju 15y ago|336 comments
335.
by ajju 15y ago
This is a great post: specific, original advice rooted in practical experience. A useful and concise book on the topic is Scott Berkun's confessions of a public speaker.
336.
by ajju 15y ago
If you want to achieve something that is blocked by a weakness, you have to address the weakness or choose something else to achieve. You can address a weakness by improving yourself or finding a workaround. For example, if one of his stren
337.
by ajju 15y ago
You don't have to go chat up VCs to build a startup. Bootstrapping may be harder but is certainly doable. If you want to get funding though, you have to talk to VCs. If that's a weakness, you have to fix it or work around it by finding a co
338.
by ajju 15y ago
Your own experience contradicts with your stance. You got from >15 years ago, I'd have stood there dumbfounded..and asked for help to >I understand the whole system well enough that I can understand what is wrong, form and test a hy
339.
by ajju 15y ago
I like talking to people. It can be pretty boring if they don't engage with you and just stay with formal/small talk, but if you can get someone to really talk, you learn all sorts of new things about the world.
340.
by ajju 15y ago
>the pre-programming part isn't a problem, it's mixing skus to make an order. Sure, but is the pre-programming part a barrier to using a third party to do fulfillment?
341.
by ajju 15y ago
It's hard to imagine Amazon offering specialized services for a class of products such as pre-programming NFC stickers, so I'd say you are safe from them. A minor typo on your site:"If you are ordering NFC tags in bulk, need stickers pre-
342.
by ajju 15y ago
This is the money quote: "A company is defined by the schleps it will undertake. And schleps should be dealt with the same way you'd deal with a cold swimming pool: just jump in." It also helps to think of things like "making deals with ban
343.
by ajju 15y ago
This is fantastic! Unscrupulous training mills run by non-hackers have brought a bad name to the training industry. Hackruiter is fixing this and helping both the students and the recruiting companies. Bravo!
344.
by ajju 15y ago
Kang has been studying HIV since 1987. This guy has been working on fighting one virus for almost 25 years. I can't quite compare what I aim to do with my startup to preventing HIV, but we certainly hope to have a massive positive impact
345.
by ajju 15y ago
-assuming $1 per hour Unskilled/semiskilled laborers in India don't make anything close to that. You are also missing the part where he is distributing production to poorer manufacturers who are willing to take a smaller profit, and thus pu
346.
by ajju 15y ago
It is ignorance not selfishness. You are looking at these women from the lens of someone who can probably not fathom the level of ignorance amongst the poor uneducated folks in India. If they really understood what it is to lose a uterus,
347.
by ajju 15y ago
The key point in the article lies towards the end: An important point to keep in mind is that, in order to maintain flexibility, entrepreneurs shouldn’t give new investors the ability to block an exit or new financings. Investors can get t
348.
by ajju 15y ago
I dare say it's time to add RideCell to that cluster, one node from CipherTrust :)
349.
by ajju 15y ago
>So long as you have a company sponsoring you it is not that difficult to get a green card. This is not true at all. How long it takes to get a green card depends on the category of green card you can apply for (there are at least 4 typ
350.
by ajju 15y ago
How do I reach you? This sounds interesting.
351.
by ajju 15y ago
Isn't it likely that the admins at work blocked HN via a proxy? A few years ago my comments to HN were being mangled by a web proxy at work.
352.
by ajju 15y ago
Georgia Tech's Brainlab has had an amazing set of tools that do similar things. A friend of mine helped built something that allowed a disabled person to control a wheelchair using a BCI.
353.
by ajju 15y ago
The link from Technology review to the application is broken. If they fix it, the number will probably go up!
354.
by ajju 15y ago
She had to have been a really wonderful person to have raised a son who is such a nice human being. My condolences Ed.
355.
by ajju 15y ago
There are a lot of real-world examples which makes the whole thing worth reading and not just the summary. I took my own notes, but it would have been nice to have a summary of key points at the end of each chapter.
356.
by ajju 15y ago
Got the book pre-launch thanks to Flashpoint[1] and read it cover to cover. It crystallized a lot of "gut instincts" I had had into a complete, coherent set of tools and answered many many questions we had spent hours pondering as a team. G
357.
by ajju 15y ago
Except HN does not publish any articles. So it really is quite different from TechCrunch.
358.
by ajju 15y ago
I hope rwalker was being funny, because otherwise this is the most epic Eric Schmidt moment ever :)
359.
by ajju 15y ago
Since both sides bear their costs until the final contracts are signed, how do you prevent an insincere large competitor from offering a term sheet, doing due diligence to learn everything they can about the business, and then backing off b
360.
by ajju 15y ago
Awesome, thanks!

More ›