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stewie2on 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.

stewie2on Ask HN:Why do you all use macbooks

I develop ios apps. I need mac os.

There are many user experience issues in linux.

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on Poll: Your favorit revision control software

perforce

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on Do you react to bugs with fear, or courage?

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

stewie2on 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).

stewie2on Yahoo Releases Beautiful Weather App for iOS

the icon looks ugly.

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on Mailbox's counter seems to be fake

damn, I think I'm being played too.

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on 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

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on What does your company use for instant messaging?

office communicator

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

stewie2on 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

stewie2on 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.

stewie2on Timothy Lottes (FXAA) on the new PlayStation and Xbox specs

It's not because of opengl or directx, it's because of the operating system layer.

stewie2on Show HN: P2P microblogging over Bluetooth to avoid government censorship

I think the app itself should be installable through bluetooth. if another user doesn't have this app installed, the app should be able to transfer its apk package to the user via bluetooth.

stewie2on Show HN: P2P microblogging over Bluetooth to avoid government censorship

this is very cool!, last year we had a same idea. but we didn't finish it. at first, we decided to build a microblog which relies on geolocation to find nearby blogs. but the content is actually hosted on a server. but later, we had more and more ideas added to the project, it got too huge, we eventually gave up.

stewie2on The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is dying

I completely disagree. C++ is not perfect, but it's evolving. I started my oo programing with java. I have used c#, go, obj c and many others. But I think C++ is still the best.

stewie2on Facebook goes ARM with Calxeda

it's cheap

stewie2on Facebook goes ARM with Calxeda

I hope there could be some ARM based cheap host service soon. some thing like linode, but on an ARM, not on virtual machine.

stewie2on Ask HN: would you pay $2000 now to host forever?

I still have 50 years to live at least. how many companies can last that long?

stewie2on Dear Apple: I give up, WireframeApp will become open source

how long do we need to wait before apple approves an app? I'm about to ship mine. I heard it used to be 2 weeks, isn't it?

stewie2on Qt compiled to JavaScript

WoW! this is cool!

stewie2on Windows RT Jailbreak Tool released

is there an instruction on how to compile an existing code project for RT?