Andrew Hyndman

Software Engineer and resident of Planet Earth

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@redjonzaci @rauchg @Tesla I'm aware most people aren't interested in digesting contradictory information.

But if you would like to round out your perspective of Musk & Tesla with an additional source, I highly recommend Wired's deep dive from 2018.

https://t.co/J3yR2vd2Ey

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@isosteph I'm late to the party, but I think this is actually the real thing the Nintendo Switch got right.

We have a lot of portable devices and a lot of stationary devices, but very few good solutions for transitioning from one state to the other.

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@inkandswitch This looks like a really cool project!

Can you comment on why you are only offering a twelve week contract though?

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@rossipedia @sarah_edo I'm with you on this one. I think "bragging about accomplishments" to managers IS the norm right now.

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@gathara Top tier usage of the word "defenestrate".

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@shreyas I just want to add that the best guardrail I've seen against "incompetent leaders" is listening to the people UNDER that leader.

It is always much easier to spot incompetence when you're the one being managed than the reverse.

Good feedback processes surface that early.

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

Steve Blank, the Stanford professor, said, “The first time you see a venture capitalist prosecuted for failing to uphold their duty as a board member, you’re going to see Silicon Valley transform overnight. All it takes is one V.C. doing a perp walk and everyone gets the message”

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I like this trend of articles calling out the bullshit of American culture in plain language. Something Americans are historically terrible at.

https://t.co/KAJubbwlIW

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

"Everything about the broken incentives and hollowed-out capacities of American society is crystallized in this dumb pod moseying its way along a track to nowhere in Las Vegas."

Exquisite.

https://t.co/MjmDhKkX3n

[m. gessen @mashagessen]

No one should be broadcasting Trump's announcement live. He's staging a campaign event, illegally, in the White House. He has signaled his intention to lie about the election. The event also violates local public-health regulations and national recommendations. Take it off air!

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@Querydash @ZombiePresident @benyt @oneunderscore__ I moved to California two years ago. I would agree that it's hard to overstate the emotional and intellectual immaturity of Americans.

Americans of all stripes resist acknowledging that something is wrong, let alone that they have a responsibility to do anything about it.

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@EmmaBostian Wow. I just found Monokai Pro this week, and I'm having the same reaction!

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

I stumbled on this podcast episode tonight. It's almost shocking to watch two people who don't see eye to eye having a productive conversation.

https://t.co/XqtIpeJIjE

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@dan_abramov I like that it fits the mission of hooks: allowing you to define "reusable stateful logic" without introducing a new component to your tree. And it also nicely parallels the useContext API.

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@dan_abramov Has React team considered a useProvider hook? Maybe it doesn't make sense, but it feels like it could be really expressive, allowing you to compose state and providers inside of a custom hook.

This doesn't actually work, but might illustrate the idea:

https://t.co/7ziV1MRrmO

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

Here's an example of what's happening right now:

https://t.co/vOiJY5RtFn

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

I just want to share a perspective:

As a white person living in an affluent neighbourhood, the first narrative I encountered was "Violence erupts across the country in response to the death of George Floyd."

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I had to look past that to see the more plausible story: "Police are violently dispersing crowds of people protesting the latest case of Police Brutality".

I just want to suggest that if you are hearing only the first story right now: don't panic, and read a little further.

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@kylegriffin1 If you can, donate to help unseat this fascist turtle:

https://t.co/Bgc3f1ZD0m

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

@dellsystem It absolutely did! My own journey was more roundabout; I studied anthropology and sociology for two years before I stumbled into tech.

Initially, tech seemed like a way to circumvent the capital/labour conflict. But four years into my career the myths look thinner and thinner.

[Andrew Hyndman @HyndmanAndrew]

I just got hold of a copy of "Abolish SIlicon Valley" on Friday, and I finished it Saturday. It's been a long time since a book grabbed me that way.

Thank you @dellsystem for the personal and timely call to action.

https://t.co/U3kZmysuTr