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primo44··on Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
*its

"it's" = "it is"

primo44··on Trying to make sense of CompuServe server hard disk images
And cite, right?
primo44··on Implementing a NES Emulator in Rust
Almost: rite _of_ passage (not "to")
primo44··on DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence
And just regular grammar. "Phenomena" is plural.
primo44··on North American Regional Dialects and Accents (2016)
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 that said that regional accents were actually getting stronger.
primo44··on Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
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 enlarge. 5 years ago that wasn't the case.
primo44··on Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat
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 failed to fix it after X years") to now being, frankly, pissed off that my expensive phone is going to be left behind.
primo44··on CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
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 putting together such a fun little game!
primo44··on China’s stock market bubble: A goring concern
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 this wrong (they now say "suppoes" rather than "suppozed") and that's spread into the written form.

Similarly, people are also replacing the correct "used to" with "use to".

primo44··on Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing
Your "try me" text box should say "eg. tomorrow at 6am".

"ie." means "that is" (as in "restating...")

"eg." means "example".

primo44··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
It's necessary. It makes the "s" in "hotels" optional, so that the regex can match either "hotel" or "hotels" and then the rest.
primo44··on Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser
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 I've ever touched. It would be nice to have an option to have scout_realtime only listen on 127.0.0.1, so (as someone else already mentioned) we could just proxy to it with another web server and then wrap controls around that.

With my 10 minutes of poking around in the scout_realtime source and a bit of googling, I think the option would go here, in main.rb:

   server = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 5555, :AccessLog => [])
primo44··on Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser
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 distributions with the exception of OSX and Debian."

procfs is available on my Debian 7 servers, so scout_realtime just installed and runs fine on the few that I've tried it on.

primo44··on Time to come Clean Motorola (2012)
I didn't even know that they were dirty.

*Time to come clean, Motorola

primo44··on Build your own Google TV using Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Socket.io
Uh, no. Sam is in London, England. Well, somewhere in the UK anyway.
primo44··on Induction powered LED lit engagement ring
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"
primo44··on Who Cares If It's Been Tried Before?
In his title, he needs to use "It's" as a contraction of "It Has". "its" is the possessive for "belonging to it" -- always.
primo44··on Free DNS management service
"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"

primo44··on Skypipe : a cloud based named pipe
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 know, no tunnel to set up, nothing."

- "then asks you and remember your credential for access" should be "then asks you and remember your credentials for access"

primo44··on How Facebook Fucked Up Its Own IPO
I'd give the article more credit if the author knew that "phenomena" is a plural. How can Facebook be a "momentary internet phenomena"?
primo44··on Kids are the future; teach them how to code
Grammar is the future. Learn about sentences.
primo44··on SSH Tricks
In case the article's author stops by:

- loose rhymes with "goose". The word is "lose".

primo44··on Encapsulation in Javascript
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")
primo44··on Unknown or expired link.
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.
primo44··on Encapsulation in Javascript
"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.