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My name is Scott Hyndman.

https://github.com/shyndmanrgb(104, 31, 104)

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scotth··on Telepresence Robots – An Interview With Double Robotics
yeah, right
scotth··on What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?
Ugh, please don't.
scotth··on Sunsetting Hire
I get the feeling Stadia is different. I'm not willing to write it off quite yet.
scotth··on A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
Flutter might actually have some legs. It's gaining a lot of steam without any Fuchsia involvement.

I'm a UI-focused engineer who's been working with it for the past 8 months or so, and I'm really liking it. Hot reload is awesome, the framework's primitives and how they compose is very natural feeling after some practice, and the framework doesn't hide low-level control from you if you need it.

Dart's no slouch either. I mean, it's not super exciting, but its standard library is nice, and the language itself is improving all the time (non-nullable by default coming soon!).

PLUS, with support for macOS, Windows and Linux on the horizon, we're soon going to have a really solid development environment that works on both mobile and desktop platforms.

I know this sounds like an ad, but I'm serious. I like it a lot.

scotth··on The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
What specifically isn't elegant about Dart in your opinion? Seems like a perfectly good language to me, and although it's nothing fancy, it does have a bit of sugar, and a solid standard library. I also like how codegen and static analysis are so accessible through the build libraries.

It's evolving pretty quickly, too. Non-nullable by default is coming up, along with extension methods, FFI. Possibly implicit conversions.

I've been working with Flutter/Dart for the past 8 months or so, and I have to say...I'm pretty into it.

scotth··on Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
Leave my the state of my wrists alone.
scotth··on Google shuts down its blog management tool just 10 months after launch
You don't even need the controller.
scotth··on Google shuts down its blog management tool just 10 months after launch
I signed up, and I'm looking forward to it. My brother and friends are similarly excited.
scotth··on You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder
How about old hungry lawyers?
scotth··on Announcing Startup School 2019
I think it probably means you should read the article — everyone can join.
scotth··on Superhuman
Thank you :)
scotth··on Superhuman
I'd love one, if you would be so kind. Email in my profile.
scotth··on Modern Swift API Design [video]
Swift makes me feel jealous. What a cool language.
scotth··on Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently
Doesn't seem like the kind of thing you can rely on in an emergency.
scotth··on Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
I've been working with it for about 6 months, and TS a couple years before that. Dart is missing some things, but it's alright. The standard lib is great.
scotth··on Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons
Are you familiar with svgo?
scotth··on Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream
My experience so far as a beta tester has been very positive, for what it's worth.
scotth··on Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
> No ad network but the Google ad network allowed

This is not true.

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/components/amp-ad#...

scotth··on Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands
The Google Home app. I remember it being under accessibility.
scotth··on A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
Sounds unlikely. Is there any evidence of this?
scotth··on Kactus: Design version control without changing tools
Sketch files are zip archives containing a bunch of JSON, so they're likely looking at/storing extracted state.
scotth··on GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities in 2019
If I wanted a car, I'd want a Bolt.
scotth··on Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
Agreed. I'm not sure where the misconception of their furniture being difficult to build comes from. In my experience their instructions are unambiguous and well-designed.
scotth··on Japan Is Selling Ice Cream That Doesn't Melt
But does it melt in your mouth?
scotth··on UglifyJS 3 Released
What was improved with this release?
scotth··on Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
You can, and Google does. For example:

https://fonts.google.com/metadata/fonts

And here's the code in Angular's $http service for stripping out that string:

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/htt...

scotth··on Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI
Bizarrely, humans weren't used for computation in the Matrix. They were batteries...somehow.
scotth··on CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
You already have that problem, whether or not you were aware of it. Many (most?) English speaking countries use DD/MM.
scotth··on Web fonts, boy, I don't know
It does if the @font-face rule specifies a local() src.
scotth··on Google Trips is a killer travel app for the modern tourist
Did you know there's a "Trips" section in the navigation drawer?

https://support.google.com/inbox/answer/6228360?hl=en under the "Find your Trip in Inbox" header

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