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The high number of grammatical errors caused me to quit reading in the middle.
Thank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors. Any tips to improve with this?
I have a collection of blogs and sites where I want to read every thing that person says. There are many people that post infrequently, post extremely insightful commentary and yet don't show up in my social media feeds.
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Thank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors. Any tips to improve with this?
Have someone else proof read the document first, and have them actually send you what they found so you can fix it (and learn from it). Even if you are writing in your native language, a second set of eyes makes a tremendous difference.
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Thank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors. Any tips to improve with this?
write more :o) it's the only way you'll get better and it's a good way of saying "fuck you" to those that cricise... [other things i do include silently talking to myself in the foreign language while i am out walking (describe what is happening) and trying to listen/read in an "aware" way - for example, when listening to someone speak, try to consciously note the gender of the nouns they are using (doesn't work for…
So I will carry on practice, I could try force myself to think in English as you said, good advice. Thanks.
It plugs into Google Reader (and even HN!) really well, and can quickly help you pick out the best links from 100's of RSS items easily.
Many excellent sites publish new stuff very rarely. RSS is the best way to follow those sites.
Then you are missing out and are letting the masses decide what you read. Technical experts have highly targeted RSS feeds and thus highly relevant information. Once you give up on that you've really just given up.
Many excellent sites publish new stuff very rarely. RSS is the best way to follow those sites.
I agree that good sites publish rarely. Some site get in the Hacker News front page at every publication, even if they publish once a month, because they stuff are excellent. I'm not following them with RSS, but I still aware of them.
"Unread item overload" is why I started using the PostRank Extension ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnngeaoibaajihakbn... ) It plugs into Google Reader (and even HN!) really well, and can quickly help you pick out the best links from 100's of RSS items easily.
Does it come with source? My 20 second review didn't show up anything and I've become very leery of letting any plugin that I can't read the source get added to my browser.
Then you are missing out and are letting the masses decide what you read. Technical experts have highly targeted RSS feeds and thus highly relevant information. Once you give up on that you've really just given up.
You are certainly right, I'm not a technical experts, and the average contain of HN is usually enough for me. If I would need some too specific stuff, it wouldn't work.