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Cool, thx =)

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.

It's really neat. I've tried scanning myself earlier on a startup event with the Volumental website.

Nice, anyone tested?

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)?

Watching it live. This is great news for the private space industry! Looking forward to my retirement on the Moon in 50 yrs.

We have liftoff and in orbit... Nice! I got nervous. Best tech news since Curiousity =)

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.

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.

This could be mitigated by TaskRabbit cooperating with an insurance provider and selling "insured" work. There are great margins on insurance as we all know. In their TOS TaskRabbit basically says "TaskRabbit.com Only Provides a Venue" (check it out: http://www.taskrabbit.com/tos). Why don't some retail-insurance megacorp approach them? This could be TaskRabbits no1 source of income instead of their no1 problem...

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.

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.

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?

Thanks! Filed my schedule scripts comment as an issue. Looking forward to see this develop. Hope I can contribute.

Thank you!

Thanks for your comment =) Nothing is confusing me there, but try to search for "django script cron" and you'll see people suggesting setting up urls to start the script, having an external script that import settings and many other complex things. The craziest thing I've seen (but probably useful for some cases) is to have the regular requests from google-bots invoke scripts... That's why I think it's a good thing to suggest managment commands when they're so easy and integrates nicely with your apps. Celery however is good for more complex usecases. I was merely making a suggestion for best-practise.

Thanks! Good starting point. I'd like a section on using django on cloud services, e.g. AWS Elastic beanstalk. Another best practise I'd want is scheduling scripts with https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-managemen... and Cron, or using Celery. There is much confusion on those topics I think.

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This is the most beautiful circuit board I've seen since http://www.esarcasm.com/wp-content/01-geek-tattoos.jpg

Interested in china, dm me at twitter: @mik4el4ndersson

I'm overreacting saying the article is rascist, I got that now. :)

But I strongly believe the article portrays the Chinese in the traditional way as a land of copies and cheap stuff, when it's a country full of people dreaming to build the next TI.

I also read that they were quoted but it does not change how the article is promoting the traditional western view of China as a country that can't do anything but cheap stuff and copies. Another possible direction the journalist could have taken the article would be: "Chinese CEOs outlines challenges to building the next TI". Hey, in Sweden where I'm from the CEOs talk about gender policies. I'd rather have them talking on building the next megacorp.

I have read it. Unfortunately I think it's the same prejudices again and again. Will China produce a company of TI's stature? - Probably not. Will any country produce a company of TI's stature? - Probably not. My comment was based on that, there is no need to always portray China a sub-par on innovation and technology. They're young in this field compared to the US but they're moving so fast that they continue to outrun industrialized countries in area after area. More biased and prejudiced articles will only make it easier for them to outrun everyonelse. That was my point, don't underestimate China because western journalists never get bored of the same message.

This article is really kind of racist. Any country has a problem to create the next Texas Instruments, we're in a new paradgim. What we do know about China is that it, together with Africa, will be a hotspot for real growth (e.g improving life expectancy, standard of living and urbanization). Stop the China-bashing please, sometimes it's called for (e.g. human rights) but mostly it's just racist.

As a fellow chinese learner and coder I find this interesting, but I can't agree 100%. I think one of the troubles of learning chinese for a westerner is the difficulty in pronouncing it compared to pronouncing e.g. German. You can't just try to speak it, you need to learn about the tones and the very different sounds. When I started programming Basic as a kid you could just try stuff. You learned as you went. The entry barrier was quite low for someone that was computer literate. However, I find the entry barrier to learning Chinese to be quite high with the pronounciation and difficult characters. I should write a blog post like "Pain. Or, Why Learning to Code is like Learning German". But I must say the post resonates somewhat when I see beautiful Ruby or F# code.

Best quote:

" Word of mouth is still the best form of marketing. Instead of thinking of all of the ways to reach your customers, think of all of the ways to improve your relationships with customers so they reach one another. "

How I interpret this; stop focusing on getting likes on your facebook-page, focus on getting your customers to like you for real and the rest will follow.

The S3->Glacier lifecycle-feature must be a welcome thing for you I guess?

I hate when apple does that kind of silly stuff. I've heard so many iterations of this kind of story that I doubt Apple will continue to have the best smartphone apps when other ecosystems offers more flexibility. Also, this kind of strict control of content must cost Apple a sizeable buck?

I totally agree. There are no free lunches and there will be no free lunches. Piggy-backing is fine but it's unsustainable if you don't offer the part you're piggy-backing something in return.

Another perspective; can you call yourself a true entrepreneur if you haven't had more than one entrepreneurial endevaour (I'm not talking that you need to have IPOd a tech company before but rather had a lemonade stand as a kid and vice versa)?

yeah weather forcasts must be great compared to e.g. a newspaper but inferior to a computer of course. Simple internet machines have a clear place in society, thats been shown again and again from minitel to cheap mobile phones in the third world...