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

Or, is it a way to share your powerpoint and not have to carry more than your mobile device ? We have a wifi projector at work. This is just another way to let people throw something up on the screen without moving cables around. Think of it as a presentation tool on the mobiles, that supports minor editing and layout changes and it makes a little more sense. Most people wanting this have office, and office documents, and this opens up a new way to present them.

Come out of your hole, apple laptops are dominating in my area. Python, Go, d3, ... all the groups I frequent are apparently not readers of /., or some /. readers do not get out into the real world much.

I went 12 years without needing an office suite. When looking for a new job, it was the first thing I used to update the resume in .doc format, .rtf, and .txt.