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by fearandclothing 10y ago
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 through Google home.
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by fearandclothing 10y ago
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: http://screencrush.com/street-sh
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by fearandclothing 11y ago
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 anybody does since the front crawl is bo
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Retired Japanese Fighter Pilot Sees an Old Danger on the Horizon(nytimes.com)
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by fearandclothing 12y ago
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 otherwise) is abstracted away from you as a customer
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by fearandclothing 12y ago
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 shortcuts consisting of keys that were already near where m
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by fearandclothing 12y ago
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 messages; I couldn't edit my way out of a paper bag and cou
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by fearandclothing 12y ago
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
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by fearandclothing 12y ago
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 meaning of something like for i in range(0, 3): tha
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by fearandclothing 13y ago
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.