Google has not lost their way. They walked away from billions in China when the government tried to hack Gmail accounts. Google made it so ALL people can afford a smartphone not just the rich like Apple.

Apple on the other hand

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy... Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud ...

Smartphones are not necessarily good things. I think they are damaging attention[1] and causing a lot of negative effects on society (social media, fake information, etc.). Humans shouldn't be online at all times.

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/03/having-your-smartphone-nearby-takes-...

They did it for a reason -- to sell ads. If they truly wanted it so people could afford it, they'd not be making billions of profits each year. They give you things for free at the cost of your privacy. Apple otoh is upfront about it.

Don't be evil was NEVER abandoned. That was reported by right wing media and picked up by mainstream media without checking. Here is the the latest employee conduct statement.

"And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!"

Last thing the employee reads in the document.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

Thing is 86% of people in a recent China poll indicated they would use Google instead of Baidu. Baidu has the market share but not the love of their users.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/7/17660364/baidu-ceo-google-...

My all time favorite OS is VMS. Spent 100s of hours on VMS internals.

But now many years later have to admit VMS was just a lot more complicated than what was needed.

Waymo has insurance from Munich Re. Do not think liability problem.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/12/20/47... Startup Trov, Munich Re to Insure Riders of Waymo's Self-Driving ...

They have started to take the boys out and so not in time. But also it looks like the opening is tiny in places.

There is zero chance I would crawl through such a tiny hole even without the water. I would freak.

Curious how many have moved from LDAP to using OAuth?

Would seem the future for enterprise will be OAuth.

Really think Flutter will eat into a lot of React Native use.

So far really loving Flutter. The hot reload speed is just incredible. Plus there is some unusual features.

One is widgets keep state so can go directly to where you were already at when developing. This makes you a lot more productive and experiment a lot more.

The other is able to be somewhere in the app your are coding and just click that page on the screen and takes you to the code behind it.

Also it does look like Flutter is the future as the native UI for Fuchsia.

waiting for react-flutter here

What would it do? Flutter uses same approach to UI.

I guess just looking over the flutter docs, I'd miss jsx too much. Also hopefully a more stable backend to target with less differences between platforms.

I have also have one and gave it to my son who wanted it. It has the old connector. Found out after giving it to him they are valuable.

But NOT older than me. I am old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard

Do you mean a PS/2 connector, or a five pin DIN? Or even one of the earlier connectors; I had an IBM keyboard once that was something I can only imagine predated the 5 pin DIN. PS/2 to five pin DIN (and vice-versa) was easy enough, but I never did get that keyboard connected to anything.

I'm typing this on a Model M I picked up from my keyboard corner just now. As I recall, this one doesn't work well; pretty soon, it will stop registering some keypresses. Never have been able to work out why :/

Good point and it is a tough balance. Really like Rust but also like Go. One things about Go is that it is really simple.

Go is weird to me... tries to be low level, but has a GC. I can see it being a good option for someone coming from Java wanting to target more native code, but I'm not personally impressed. Plus `interface {}` ;)