stewie2's comments

On: Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

[stewie2]

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.

[acdha → stewie2]

Newsblur has gotten much faster in the last month or so and there was a major iOS app release. It's now actually pretty snappy.

[aravenel → acdha]

Was going to say the same. Has been steadily improving over the last month or two. Still not perfect, but the best alternative I have found yet, and I love that it's under active development by someone who is invested in its success (and paid for it!).

[greenyoda → acdha]

Also, they used to offer only 12 RSS feeds for free. Now, they give you 64.

And they've also been improving their user interface.

[acdha → greenyoda]

For a trial, this is important but after picking one if you're at all concerned about being Reader-ed in the future you really should chip in a couple dollars a month to ensure that the business is viable.

On: Ask HN:Why do you all use macbooks

[stewie2]

I develop ios apps. I need mac os.

There are many user experience issues in linux.

On: Is Android development tougher as compared to iOS ...

[stewie2]

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.

On: Poll: Your favorit revision control software

[stewie2]

perforce

On: Have you settled on a Google Reader replacement?

[stewie2]

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.

[conesus → stewie2]

The iOS app for NewsBlur should be a 1-for-1 representation of what you get on the web. They are both first-class apps, which means support should be 100% for both. I also just released an update to the iOS app yesterday.

On: Ask HN: Is it still good to start with ios apps de...

[stewie2]

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.

On: Do you react to bugs with fear, or courage?

[stewie2]

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

On: Ask HN: Are you planning on getting Google Glass?

[stewie2]

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).

On: Yahoo Releases Beautiful Weather App for iOS

[stewie2]

the icon looks ugly.

On: H-1B Workers Not Best Or Brightest, Study Says

[stewie2]

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 → stewie2]

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