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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.
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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.
This would be perfect, but in practice, even in my native language, it isn't easy to ask someone else proof read, it takes time and it's never easy to ask someone else time. But I agreed that is a perfect solution.
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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.
Sounds like a good balance is best. RSS for specific, infrequent blogs and twitter for the mass news. This is where I have found myself lately. I have dropped all feeds that post more than 3 or 4 times a day other than HN. If I could get a more refined feed from HN (just stuff that makes it to the front page), I would be even happier.
There is possibly a way, this twitter account provide only HN stories higher than 100 points, Twitter also allow to follow via RSS feed, unless they it turned off, https://twitter.com/#!/newsyc100 So it would provide readable feed for HN.
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?
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Sounds like a good balance is best. RSS for specific, infrequent blogs and twitter for the mass news. This is where I have found myself lately. I have dropped all feeds that post more than 3 or 4 times a day other than HN. If I could get a more refined feed from HN (just stuff that makes it to the front page), I would be even happier.
> If I could get a more refined feed from HN (just stuff that makes it to the front page There is possibly a way, this twitter account provide only HN stories higher than 100 points, Twitter also allow to follow via RSS feed, unless they it turned off, https://twitter.com/#!/newsyc100 So it would provide readable feed for HN.
I used to really love some subreddits, especially r/askscience. I used to be able to just put an RSS feed and never miss a single question I could help with. But now its overwhelming; I can't do anything about it. So I just didn't even bother going there for a while. Until I figured out ways to filter the posts in the subreddit and feed them into RSS (I used http://ifttt.com/ for that btw) and now I can at least try to answer questions of my interest.
While social aggregation sites are good to go through while munching dinner, when you need to consume data for real knowledge acquisition, I don't think you can beat RSS. For that I hope RSS never dies in spite of all the ignorance around it.
"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.
That looks like a great ad on. 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.
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That looks like a great ad on. 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.
Yeah, I totally understand. The company was recently acquired by Google, so I guess you can consider having some measure of 'safety'.
I make extensive use of tags, and put my "not to miss" feeds under a "favorite" tag, that I always read. 2-3 other tags I read all from as well.
And the rest (including HN), I only read in "All items", sorted by "magic". That way, I know I will see if something big happened on these sites (it's sorted mostly by the amount of "+1", I think) in priority, and the rest, maybe later.
Then, during the weekend (slow update days), I purge all Google Reader, prepared for Monday, and it goes for another week.
That's the most effective way I've found to follow tech and gaming news, since I started. It's a good compromise in my opinion, since many of my "favorite" feeds are not really popular or likely to appear on Reddit or HN.