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Google assistant can do that. I asked it in Allo "what's my dog's name?" It then asked me what my dog's name was, and now can respond to that question whether I ask in Allo or thro…

Well, if the author's intent was some sort of meta-joke about hot "everyone reports on everyone else’s reporting," it seems to be working, as other sources are reporting on it: htt…

Generally, at least in competitive swimming, "freestyle" is synonymous with "front crawl." Technically, you can swim using any stroke you want during a freestyle event, but hardly …

I really don't think GAE is comparable to AWS in that way. GAE offers "platform as a service," where the actual infrastructure (e.g. configuring actual servers, virtual or otherwis…

For me it's less about productivity and more about comfort. When I first started using Emacs I felt like it was a lot easier to move the cursor around and manipulate text with shor…

I remember back before I knew how to use vim (I was an Emacs guy then) it was a nightmare when I would forget to set my EDITOR variable and get dropped into vi to write commit mess…

I really like Jeremy Kun's Math Intersect Programming ( http://jeremykun.com/ ). This past HN thread might also be worth checking out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928762

I think the point the author is making is that Python eliminates a lot of overhead in learning fundamental programming concepts. I think it's easier for a beginner to grasp the mea…

There's an option to donate when you download the .iso, so I suppose you could just do that and then uninstall the Amazon stuff.