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Hope we hear more from ATAP. They had some really interesting projects last year I'm hoping make it further towards market.
I thought the most interesting news from ATAP (last year) was project Jacquard [1]. It seemed very exciting and promising, but it doesn't seem that the tech has made it to market. [1] https://www.google.com/atap/project-jacquard/
I got here a week ago from Florida, and I've already done my peace guy thing at the Google campus (twice), at Lytton Plaza in downtown Palo Alto, and on the Stanford campus. My thing is to literally make people fall madly in love with me as I dance and hold up the peace sign and say whatever the hell comes to mind.
Put simply, I am here to turn the world absolutely upside-down in a way that Bernie Sanders could only dream about.
My point is that capitalism, as we know it, is pretty much "game over". Google won it, and no one else should even try to take them on (that especially includes you, Apple).
As such, I would love to personally give my project to Larry Page in order to see how we can start up the greatest open source project in history. I would like Google to start supporting actual live/work communities in various parts of the world, kind of like neo-hippie tech communes (or kibbutzes if you like that term better), that are very far from traditional tech centers (think Amazon jungle rather than Amazon.com).
I would love to get a bunch of free-spirited types of people to help me work the I/O event. Since I've gotten pretty good at living on the streets here, I can give people plenty of advice.
Both of the times that I've been at the Googleplex, I've had Google security guards try to law down the law at me, only for me to lay down the law back at them... very, very loudly. After all, I am not some random jackass. I am literally "the peace guy" since if Google says so, then it must be true.
I am making friends with everyone around here, from other homeless people to local business owners and everything in between. I even just got done making friends with a couple of particularly friendly grade schoolers who actually initiated a conversation with me.
To be brutally honest about myself, I am a mad genius and I am mad sexy. Even though I am homeless here in Silicon Valley, the women/girls (and many guys) literally cannot stop looking at me (it is quite different than where I came from, in that everyone was just too "proper" to act like they were interested in anyone else).
My twitter is https://twitter.com/The_Peace_Guy (fair warning it is slightly NSFW at the moment).
Lots of Firebase - wild guess, but I assume Firebase support will be integrated in Android Studio extending/maybe replacing the current Cloud-Endpoints feature (which is unfortunate, because I use it extensively).
For instance, it really annoys me when Android Studio pushes you to add app indexing stuff, which in turn needs Play Services to work. Play Services unnecessarily bloats my APKs, so I go great lengths to avoid it.
I prefer a more agnostic Android Studio (and Android in general) rather than gravitating towards Google sponsored add-ons.
They are having it outside at Shoreline? oh boy.
The opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of Google. I attended I/O a few years ago (prior to joining Google) and really enjoyed the Moscone Center. Mainly because there was lots of hotels and restaurants in the area. Lodgings around the Google campus are pretty sparse, this feels like a mistake to me. Being able to walk to your hotel after a long day of focusing/listening was definitely nice. That s…
I'm in love with the 2d/3d font and the way it animates both in the color cycling and number changing into one another. Its one of those things that I wish I would had thought of doing (knew how to do)
Lots of Firebase - wild guess, but I assume Firebase support will be integrated in Android Studio extending/maybe replacing the current Cloud-Endpoints feature (which is unfortunate, because I use it extensively).
I hope they won't do that. I believe those approaches do a disservice to Android in general. For instance, it really annoys me when Android Studio pushes you to add app indexing stuff, which in turn needs Play Services to work. Play Services unnecessarily bloats my APKs, so I go great lengths to avoid it. I prefer a more agnostic Android Studio (and Android in general) rather than gravitating towards Google sponsored…
I wonder if I'm going to be able to download the version of Android which was announced at last year's Google I/O before they announce another one this year? Don't ever change, Google.
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Hosting this in MV is just... weird. All the hotels suck, there's no food, nothing touristy to do, etc etc. I don't understand your note about costs. Google has infinite money. Even mid-tier meetings are held at Moscone, so I don't think it's that expensive. Are the I/O hordes really going to be visiting the Google Campus? For what reason? It's pretty weird.
I lived in Mountain View down the street from Google the last few years but here's where people will/should be going: Hotels: If you want something nice, you're going to go to Palo Alto or Downtown San Jose. If you're fine with budget basics, hit all the hotels along El Camino between Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. Personally, I would choose the Hampton Inn on Moffett Blvd. between the 101 and Central. It's clean, pretty c…
> Touristy Things: The museums and cultural options are more limited …
Lots of Project Tango + AR/VR presentations. I'm willing to bet the next Google/Nexus phones will have tech from Project Tango built in and become standard on future Android phones. Lots of apps/games could be built for it (and some that have been already built will debut during I/O). It could be one of those things that differentiates Androids from iPhones. Take a look at the 'Introducing Project Tango Area Learning…