I think you talking about soft reference variable creation. $dog="fido"; $$dog = "roofuss"; print $fido; While, the parent was writing about plain old interpolation $dog="fido"; print "my dogs name is $dog";

Can I complain about people getting shuttled around like rock stars and athletes, knowing they are they work to enable the mining of every detail of our lives for advertising or worse ? Can I be disappointed that the government is handing out favors to the companies holding mineable and pre mined data for large networks of people; where people can be real, fictitious, and business ?

Roblimo has thick skin. He said so in March when he posted an advertisement for this same service in the disguise of a story. This still looks like front page placement of an ad for a friends company. How much does it cost for front page placement ?

I did not suggest a mistake. I suggested it was a typo by some being too cute to get the message correct. I think it was an attempt to do as you say, but the expression as typed does not parse correctly. Google developer tracking^w conference is one way to express the idea. Google developer tracking ^w^wdevelopers conference is another.

Holy abuse of parenthesis !
... acquisitions and projects (like the recent purchase of Nest, which itself promptly bought Dropcam, the ever smarter fleet of self-driving cars, the growing number of Glass devices in the wild, and the announcement of a 3D scanning high end tablet quite unlike the Nexus line of tablets and phones), ...

I/O, the company's annual developer tracking^wdevelopers conference,
I use vi, but I assume the control w is emacs to delete a word.
Developer developers conference ?

Is that really what the op wanted ?

These are not car pools. That same car comes and goes *just* like the commercial drivers. All day long. Day after day. Week after week. One airport run after another. Not hard to spot.

Aren't you the AC bitching about Apple and their walled gardens ? I own my machines. I pay my ISP fees. Let me run my services as I see fit. NAT sucks. It's a walled garden that breaks the internet. Seems lots of people here really do want a walled garden.

Reptile : cold blooded Avian : warm blooded Mammal : live birth

The person clearly wants a tablet. I want a better kindle with features like color e-ink, and a much larger e-ink display for magazines and PDFs.

Uber connects drivers lacking commercial driving licenses, and insurance that covers transporting passengers commercially, with passengers seeking commercial transportation. Fixed that for you.

+1 Its exactly like anyone with a hammer can be a sub contractor in the construction industry. Or anyone with a flashlight, billyclub, and gun can become a private police officer on subcontract. Every industry does this.

I, for one, will look forward to the city being sued for an enormous amount of money when the inevitable deaths happen, and the PUC showns they had expressed concerns and the mayor gave zero fucks for public safety.

That is carpooling, not "RideSharing" as the term applies here. Uber is a for profit company. They abuse the phrase "ride sharing" to hide that they have full time drivers acting as if they were licensed to provide transportation to the public.

It won't work, but not because miles are payment.
Trading miles doesn't work when your clients prefer to not have a car