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stewie2 | 12 years ago | on: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

I tried feedly, but I'm not very used to it. I also tried newsblur, the website is very slow, the iphone app seems to be buggy. I'm waiting for digg now. Otherwise, I will build something myself.

stewie2 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN:Why do you all use macbooks

I develop ios apps. I need mac os.

There are many user experience issues in linux.

stewie2 | 12 years ago | on: Is Android development tougher as compared to iOS development

yes, it is. I started with Android (because I don't need to pay for developer membership), but I hate it very much. Eclipse is very shitty IDE. So many bugs, so slow, so not user friendly.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Poll: Your favorit revision control software

perforce

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Have you settled on a Google Reader replacement?

I tried newsblur, the web ui is too noisy, the iphone version doesn't load anything.

feedly ui has too much distraction too. I just need the content, I don't want to see the decoration and stuff.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it still good to start with ios apps development?

I released my ios app a week ago (http://pixelhali.de), only about 1300 downloads so far. few years ago, A friend and I released an app to the android store, we got 130k within one month.

it looks to me that the app market is kinda saturated.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Do you react to bugs with fear, or courage?

easy to repro -> courage hard to repro/intermittent -> fear

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you planning on getting Google Glass?

If the frame can support prescription lenses (I wear glasses anyway), and if the price is around 300, I might get one.

I want to start to program for it early (The thing is that I really don't like android developing experience).

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Yahoo Releases Beautiful Weather App for iOS

the icon looks ugly.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: H-1B Workers Not Best Or Brightest, Study Says

giving them h1b is not because they are the brightest, it's because there are not enough equally good workers for the industry.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: H-1B Workers Not Best Or Brightest, Study Says

I think his study is biased if you check out his personal website: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff.html He is a longtime anti-h1b activist.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why aren't there enough C & C++ Web frameworks?

https://bitbucket.org/futurapp/swiftly

This is a C++ web framework I wrote. It's a work in progress. I could beat go and nodejs in some simple perf test.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Mailbox's counter seems to be fake

damn, I think I'm being played too.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Teacher revolutionizes checking student's homework with iphone app

this looked cool at first sight. But if my homework has only selections, I would probably make a homework website for auto grading.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best API documentation you've ever used?

Qt is the best: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/index.html

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: How H-1B Visas Are Screwing Tech Workers

My team has 4 job openings. The only two candidates who could pass our phone screen are not U.S. citizens. One is from Russia, who didn't get the visa for on-site interview.

America seems to be very harsh to legal immigrants, but pretty nice to illegal immigrants.

I think it's good for a country to import some competition. After all, h1b has a 60000 cap each year, that's not too many people.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: What does your company use for instant messaging?

office communicator

stewie2 | 13 years ago

Wow, the moment I saw "Parallel programming", I knew it's John Owens.

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Majored in Chemistry, should I go back and get a CS degree?

Maybe you can apply for a CS master's program. There are interdiscipline researches, so called computational chemistry. you use computer to simulate chemical reactions, protein structure... I guess a professor in this area is willing to accept students with chemistry background who can also program. But you need to make sure the program is in CS, not in Chem. There is also computational biology. simulating Cell division for example. i guess it's full of chemistry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_chemistry

stewie2 | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: P2P microblogging over Bluetooth to avoid government censorship

I always send my apk via email, and my friends will install it. what's the problem with that? apk is a file, just like jpeg, mp3. rename it to whatever you like and then transfer.