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primo44
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Comment #19860059
*its "it's" = "it is"
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Comment #19558108
And cite, right?
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Comment #19431558
Almost: rite _of_ passage (not "to")
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Comment #19402571
And just regular grammar. "Phenomena" is plural.
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Comment #15231778
I think that was the expectation a few generations ago, once TVs were in most people's homes, but it didn't happen. I recall seeing a headline for a study a couple of years ago tha…
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Comment #14349368
Now if only the Google maps (mobile version) devs would read this. On Android anyway, no matter how much you zoom the text labels on things like street and highway numbers will not…
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Comment #12338941
No Android 7 on my Nexus 5 might just be what pushes me to iOS. I've gone from being an Android evangelist to being an Android apologist ("Yeah, battery life sucks. Google has fail…
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Comment #10974139
I suspected that this was the case with Proximity, but the delay still served its purpose for me. I haven't played it in a while, so maybe I'll give it a whirl again. Thanks for pu…
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Comment #9640540
While we're on the subject, when you say "isn't the term suppose to be", you actually need to say "isn't the term supposed to be". I've noticed that people have started pronouncing…
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Comment #8397160
Your "try me" text box should say "eg. tomorrow at 6am". "ie." means "that is" (as in "restating...") "eg." means "example".
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Comment #7889273
It's necessary. It makes the "s" in "hotels" optional, so that the regex can match either "hotel" or "hotels" and then the rest.
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Comment #7379374
And I should add that this thing is awesome! It wouldn't install for me unless I was root, but that might be a ruby configuration thing, since this is also the first ruby app that …
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Comment #7379295
Regarding "What operating systems are supported?" and the answer of "scout_realtime relies heavily on the proc file system to fetch metrics. procfs is supported on most Linux-based…
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Comment #5977505
I didn't even know that they were dirty. *Time to come clean, Motorola
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Comment #5823210
Uh, no. Sam is in London, England. Well, somewhere in the UK anyway.
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Comment #5750435
This title is really difficult to parse as it is: "Induction powered LED lit engagement ring" mostly because it should be: "Induction-powered, LED-lit engagement ring"
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Comment #5590659
In his title, he needs to use "It's" as a contraction of "It Has". "its" is the possessive for "belonging to it" -- always.
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Comment #4847577
"Create an Account Now It's free, sign up in 60 seconds" Here's a free grammar correction for that comma splice: "Create an Account Now It's free. Sign up in 60 seconds"
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Comment #4450243
Grammar edits: - "Skypipe : a cloud based named pipe" should be "Skypipe : a cloud-based named pipe" - "... no IP to know, no tunnel to setup, nothing." should be "... no IP to kno…
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Comment #4008350
I'd give the article more credit if the author knew that "phenomena" is a plural. How can Facebook be a "momentary internet phenomena"?
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Comment #3572172
Grammar is the future. Learn about sentences.
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Comment #3013243
In case the article's author stops by: - loose rhymes with "goose". The word is "lose".
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Comment #2995617
Argghh. Please correct it again, to Modules are where it's at (it's = it is, and you're saying "Modules are where it is at")
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Comment #2992614
Since news entries are constantly being juggled/reordered, I think it was a choice that they made. Whenever I get that error I just start on page 1 again.
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Comment #2992592
"Module's are where it's at"? Grammar much? And don't get me started on "login with X, Y, Z". As a verb, it's "log in". YC has it wrong also.