I use a USB-C hub with DisplayLink to drive my setup. This means MacOS thinks I'm recording the screen.
I'm a bit worried Team's solution will use those APIs will be used (ie I'll have a choice: see a Teams meeting video OR be hooked up to all my monitors).
What I think is a related side effect: I also can't watch video (streaming via web browser or via Apple TV app) with this setup either.
Ummm how do you know what Slack workspace you're in?
Use case: I'm in #general. Can I ask a clarifying question about $DAYJOB's (currently private) Q4 plans... or did I accidentally leak that private information because no I'm _actually_ in the #general for _Javascript Geniuses Slacking Together_ community?
You can still see the current workspace icon in the upper left. You just can't see the icons of any *other* workspaces. Which I find maddening for other reasons.
This is very cool. Two things I wish:
* can it be a sidebar, instead or in addition to this popup? Then it could be up all the time, or how wide I want
* I wish it did tabs across windows - this only finds tabs in the current window, but I have multiple windows of multiple tabs open on my machine. (So of course I can't find anything, yes...)
I am interested to see how this compares to https://highlightsapp.net/ but it looks neat, especially if it starts at a place of integration with other platforms.
Keypoints is similar to Highlights App in that it extracts your PDF highlights into Markdown. That said, there are more differences between those two apps than similarities. I've outlined the major differences at [0].
Most importantly, Keypoints stores each highlight as an individual (Multi)Markdown note, so you can filter/gather them freely and independent of its source context. However, each note is self-contained and keeps its context (i.e. to which PDF / publication it belongs), and selecting a note opens again the exact PDF location containing the original highlight annotation.
Each highlight note can have metadata (like tags, labels or citekeys) that can be clicked to filter by these elements. You can cross-link your notes (incl. link types [1]) and your network of notes gets dynamically visualized (the graph can also be used for navigation).
In addition, Keypoints parses recognized elements from the plaintext notes and exposes them as data model properties via scripting (see an example: [2]). This will allow for fine-grained integrations with other apps.
Kodak was a wild place: trying to use a different calendar system internally (the International Fixed Calendar), the nuke reactor in the basement... just wild stuff.
I'm going to do a blog post on my job search in the next month or so, but for me it's been a _grind_ (that finally ended up with something, thankfully).
But sneak preview:
* 100 applications
* 54 first round interviews
* 24 second round interviews
* 10 third round interviews
Something like 94 total meetings (brief numbers here don't include 4th-6th rounds...), maybe 10 (?) "virtual onsites" of 3-6 hours, maybe only 4(?) takehomes, maybe 6 (?) Hackerrank projects.
I got a lot of at bats, and a lot of "swings and misses".
In general at least one place said that while they are hiring like nonsense (average desired growth at companies was 211% in the "forseeable": because I asked then aggregated them all in my spreadsheet) they apparently have a lot of candidates in the pipeline. So if you're kind of confusing because you're super senior and have done everything ??? maybe they get confused, and just say, "next!".
Out of the 4 external recruiter places I used, 2 were good at finding me excellent potentials that seemed to be enthusiastic about me and have short hiring funnels. By then I was wrapping up later stages with a place I found myself, and got a verbal offer, but I kind of suspect if I had leaned into external recruiters earlier I would have had a better experience / not feeling like I was spamming places with my resume.
What was the worst was the constant rejection, honestly. (I interviewed a _lot_ so it does track that I'd get 1-3 "thank you for your consideration but..." emails a day. But that didn't make it easier...)
Yes thank you. I know what I'm going to say goes against the millennial / Protestant Work Ethic hustle pr0n... but not _everything_ needs to be monetized. (Given a comfortable base salary. Hustling side projects or side gigs because you're not making enough money is another thing...)
Growing up in the 1990s, I remember noticing that most of money-making computer initiatives were usually started in the US (think Bill Gates starting Microsoft), which geeks in Europe were more about cool and artsy pursuits (think Amiga demo scene).
I wonder if there is something here related to mindset on the two continents.
I think it's because despite the fact that the US is called the land of opportunity, the system is rigged against entrepreneurs (no social safety net) unlike EU where you can fuck around without a job for years. So, I think there is something about money making initiatives because you don't have time to mess around.
>the system is rigged against entrepreneurs (no social safety net)
So then, why does the EU lag behind the US so much at successful startups even with our safety nets?
Or is it mostly due to the US VC funding system that pumps crazy amount of $$$ in tech companies plus having a giant homogenous market with a high purchasing power, all speaking the same language, that's lacking in the EU and in the end has nothing to do with social systems?
>unlike EU where you can fuck around without a job for years.
That's definitely not true. While there are a few people who have made a lifestyle from playing the system in order to live off unemployment their whole lives, that's a minority and not something you can easily voluntarily do.
For the most part, you can't just voluntarily choose not to work for years and still receive unemployment. They'll just cut off your welfare if you do that.
I am not sure I buy that argument—the US has been incredible for entrepreneurs for a long time.
You're right about the lack of a social safety net, but US entrepreneurs are succeeding despite that. Whether it is talent, funding, taxes or mindset something appears to be working.
>(Given a comfortable base salary. Hustling side projects or side gigs because you're not making enough money is another thing...)
Isn't that precisely why the "monetize everything"/"hustle pr0n" mentality has reached critical mass, though? The millennial generation has achieved existential dread as they have realized that they are not as financially well-off as their parents were at the same age, and they are desperate to find. Away to achieve some semblance of financial stability so that they can start their personal life journeys?
I bet it was a small business where someone ("Todd Packer") did all that stuff once, when it was 3-8 people, a garage, and a bunch of leased equipment.
Now they're 50-100 people, Todd burned out, and they're trying to find another Todd.
(Maybe Todd explicitly burnt out and everyone knew it, maybe Todd implicitly burnt out, went job hunting and surprised everyone... I don't know! But that's what it smells like to me).
Or maybe the CEO is trying to carve off their non-CEO duties. Okkkkkkkkkk.... but owning a company makes you motivated to work unsustainable hours, and... it's unlikely you'll find a $40/hour contractor willing to give 40 hours/week + 40-50 hours "gotta get this done at all costs" free labor. Eventually that contractor is going to run those numbers...
But, yes, disregarding all that stuff, superjobs are becoming a problem...
