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Breakdown of the Google Home News by an Alexa Skills Kit Dev(3po-labs.com)
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The Problem with Amazon Alexa's Deprecation Strategy(3po-labs.com)
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How we taught our Amazon Echo to speak Star Wars(derpgroup.com)
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Our (Alexa) Skill Broke and Nobody Noticed(derpgroup.com)
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Hidden language for voice assistants(derpgroup.com)
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A Better Sorting Approach for (Amazon) Alexa Reviews(derpgroup.com)
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(Amazon) Alexa must've skipped logarithm day in math class(derpgroup.com)
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The Power of Alexa Skills Reviews(derpgroup.com)
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Self-Reviews in the Amazon Alexa Skill Store(derpgroup.com)
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by galactoise 11y ago
Follow-up, this post getting love on HN seems to have helped us get their attention. We had a conference call with them where we were able to work through a lot of the issues we were facing: http://www.derpgroup.com/blog&#x
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by galactoise 11y ago
That may be true, but to be clear, I love the things Amazon produces in general - I just take specific issue with this one team over the last couple months. I can't speak for the other two people cited in the story, but for my part I
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by galactoise 11y ago
It's scant on the details of the rejection because it wasn't his skill that got rejected. His article is specifically about the uproar among the community at the terrible job they're doing. As happenstance would have it, tho
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by galactoise 11y ago
The original title is correct in the literal sense - it is not an embellishment. There is ample evidence to support this assertion, and all of it is accessible in the Amazon Developer Forums. If you would like to make the claim that the O
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by galactoise 11y ago
The weird thing about the title change is that the new one isn't even true - they've been running the Kindle app store for quite a while... The user "dang" posted further down in the comments saying that he changed it be
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by galactoise 11y ago
Man, that's weird, I wonder what was different between our implementations. Our original POCs were about 4 months ago, and they were on EC2 at the time. We had plenty of other technical issues (don't get me started on SSL), but
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by galactoise 11y ago
I'm the same "Galactoise" quoted in the original story. I'm really happy to see the conversation that cropped up here, about the lack of value around trying to certify a mutable black box, and hopefully the power of HN
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by galactoise 11y ago
The solution is to not try to verify the content of a rest service. There is a lot of good that Amazon can do with their certification process - things like helping a developer figure out appropriate example phrases, or making sure that all
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by galactoise 11y ago
This is incorrect - you can absolutely host in EC2. Our two skills are running off of a single EC2 micro instance. There is one really weird thing where you can't use US West to do an Amazon Lambda passthrough to your server, but as f