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stewie2··on Ask HN: Weekend side projects?
a photo processing tool on ipad.
stewie2··on Ouya tops $8.5 million as Kickstarter campaign comes to a close
all i hope is that they can use tegra 4.
stewie2··on Mars Rover Should Not Get So Much Attention, Say Higgs-Boson Scientists
I think Mars Rover deserves more attention than that of Olympics.
stewie2··on Ask HN: How profitable has News.YCombinator.com been for you?
same here
stewie2··on 1.6% of Facebook users spent over $1 BILLION on virtual goods
Man, I will never understand these users.
stewie2··on Dieting vs. Exercise for Weight Loss
Interesting fact. I will show this to my mom.
stewie2··on FB dips below 20 (19.96)
certainly a cheerful moment for me. I think facebook has received too much attention, which it doesn't deserve. There are so many innovators, who are diligent, conscientious and work hard, but got ignored by the society. Hopefully, this can teach those speculators something.
stewie2··on How Much Would You Pay For Facebook?
great idea! facebook should pay zombie users to click on Ads.
stewie2··on Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows
when you turn on vsync, the frame rate is at most 60. When you turn it off, you certainly can have 300fps.
stewie2··on Faster Zombies
I think proprietary code and paid apps will make linux powerful.
stewie2··on Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows
cards are very different, even the driver is open sourced, I don't think other cards can benefit from it.
stewie2··on Nokia Reportedly Selling Off Qt
Why can't, there is already Qt for android achieved by just one guy.
stewie2··on Nokia Reportedly Selling Off Qt
I also hope Qt can get into Android. Qt is the best C++ api.
stewie2··on What if Facebook charged $1/year : Would you still use it?
yes, same here. I didn't benefit from using FB.
stewie2··on What if Facebook charged $1/year : Would you still use it?
No I won't use it. It's not very useful. Following others doesn't make me happy. If google charges $1/year, I will stay.
stewie2··on [dead]
Can't wait to see how things work. I just signed up for beta. Are you gathering photos for texture map? In that case, how can an user take pictures of building roofs? how do you make sure the user made models are of the correct proportion? What if I make my home ridiculously tall to stand out. Am I allowed to do graffiti in your world?
stewie2··on [dead]
how was this map created?
stewie2··on Ask HN: Good Hackathon Prizes
I want a 3D printer, as a Prize.
stewie2··on Ask HN: Good Hackathon Prizes
wow, interesting. how hackable are they?
stewie2··on Ask HN: What tech problems would you glady pay $25 a month for a SAAS solution?
full featured photoshop alternative. full featured 3d max alternative.
stewie2··on OnLive comes to Ouya, Controller Makes Full Frontal Debut
not a problem as long as you support USB.
stewie2··on OnLive comes to Ouya, Controller Makes Full Frontal Debut
I'd like to use a keyboard to play street fighter and super mario.

The reason I think keyboard is superior is that when using a keyboard, I can have few fingers on top of keys at the same time. Whereas when using the controller, I just use two thumbs. My thumb has to jump between buttons in order to switch different moves. That is slow.

stewie2··on Ask HN: How much do you pay for cloud service each month?
Amazon charges $0.1 for 1GB storage. suppose one active user uploads 5 pictures each day on average and each picture takes up 1mb. If you have 500k active users, they can use up 500k x 5mb = 2500GB = $250.

$250 x 30 = $7500

because this cost is accumulative, within a year, the monthly bill will be as high as $75000. This is just the data storage. There are extra fees for database access, bandwidth ...

stewie2··on Ask HN: How much do you pay for cloud service each month?
reddit can't upload images, can it? Also, does reddit use any cloud service? I heard that the money you pay for cloud storage can buy you much large hard drive. Because cloud storage has data redundancy.
stewie2··on Ask HN: How much do you pay for cloud service each month?
Thank you. Does your website involve file uploading? like for example images?

I'm looking at the pricing page of parse.com, it charges 5 cents for 1000 database accesses. I have accessed the database for 9000 times for the past 30days, I will need to pay 45 cents for my activity.

Assuming my activity can represents 3 typical active users, That means I need to pay 15 cents for one active user. Consider I have 500k active users, I need to pay $75000 each month.

Is parse.com too expensive?

stewie2··on Ask HN: What are the top open source software written in C?
i told u
stewie2··on Ask HN: What are the top open source software written in C?
blender3d
stewie2··on Marissa Mayer: $1 Million Base, Up To $60 Million In Stock And Bonuses
I would hire 61 awesome engineers with that kind of money.
stewie2··on Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?
I've dreamed to work for LEGO.
stewie2··on The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit
I think the first usage of self-driving cars is for public transportation. With this technologies, crowed areas could have more self-driving buses. or use it to replace long distance truck drivers.
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