mik4el

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Comment · 13 years ago
Cool, thx =)
Comment · 13 years ago
How will the drones handle bad weather if they're continuously operational? They're not really quick so they can't outrun all kinds of weather.
Comment · 13 years ago
It's really neat. I've tried scanning myself earlier on a startup event with the Volumental website.
Comment · 13 years ago
Nice, anyone tested?
Comment · 14 years ago
What do you think about point number five; graphics? Is graphics an important part in the next future game hit? Graphics is certainly not a priority in the social games that have been succesful so far. The beauty of many hit social games I feel is in that they're so easy to start to use and even my mom understands them, will AAA graphics add to that effectively (since it's so expensive)?
Comment · 14 years ago
Watching it live. This is great news for the private space industry! Looking forward to my retirement on the Moon in 50 yrs.
Comment · 14 years ago
We have liftoff and in orbit... Nice! I got nervous. Best tech news since Curiousity =)
Comment · 14 years ago
Hahaha. Figure this: "Do you have a card?", "Not only have I got a card, I've got an NFC-enabled card. Put it against your phone and let magic happen." Awkward but hey I want one.
Comment · 14 years ago
Great to see a nice overview of best practise in app store screenshots. As an app-developer I also would like to stress the benefit of good screenshots. To add on these best practises I think you shouldn't do a real life example of the app in use without having some serious equipment (camera/lightning) and possibly "models". The author mentions to do this with care but my 2cents is just don't do it. I've only seen a few decent tries on this and generally that would be an app from a well-funded company that obviously spent a lot of effort/cash on it. Those screens set the standard in that genre and for a small developer to compete with that is not effective, do a digital less-is-more screen with good copy instead.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for your reply. Talked with some more informed friends about the situation in Sweden and their conclusion is that work like TaskRabbit probably could exist in some kind of grey area (especially when it's one private individual working for another private individual for a small amount). However when the service grows the unions will try everything to make your workers "unionized" implying that either the service company (e.g. TaskRabbit) or the buyer needs to pay insurance and minimum-wage for the work being performed - basically hiring the individual.

I guess this is not interesting for must of you US readers but it could be telling of what could happen to your TaskRabbiters.

Comment · 14 years ago
I'm not sure about the US legal situation but here in Sweden there is so much legislation to protect workers that a TaskRabbit kind of service becomes hard to achieve.
Comment · 14 years ago
What kind of risk/liability does these "employees" generally take? Like washing someone's unlocked car, is the employee liable for any damages or the company? If I'm do carpenting work distributed from TaskRabbit and hurt myself so badly I get disabled, do TaskRabbit have insurance for me? What is the standard for this? One reason why buying services is expensive is that the service provider takes risk and needs to insure their workers, I very much doubt that these TaskRabbit-type companies do that... Or am I wrong?
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks! Filed my schedule scripts comment as an issue. Looking forward to see this develop. Hope I can contribute.

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