Did I Pick the Wrong Niche for My Blog?
Hi Brad! Thanks for asking me to answer this. Looking at your blog, I think you have a very good start!
You are in the right path by choosing to blog about what you are passionate and knowledgeable about. However, I noticed a few things:1. Lack of consistency: Blogging is also about building a community, so you should be posting regularly to give your audience something to look forward to at least twice per week.
I noticed your articles/posts were spaced from 2 to 9 days apart.2. Curation: I noticed you have awesome content, including free video tutorials featuring yourself.
Do you re-share these content? You have social sharing buttons, utilize the best ones you have, recycle! :-)3.
Storytelling & Connection: You said you are in a competitive niche. The key to thriving is in being your own awesome self by telling stories your audience will want to hear - provide value to them. Your blog says you already have existing students, have you tried personally asking these students of yours to share your content for you?
I have a few reads for you to get you started in what I'm talking about: How to Create A Strategy for Deploying Content to Improve Your Site's Ranking & Visibility - Express Writers A Guide To Decentralized Content Marketing - Express Writers How to Use BuzzSumo To Crush Your Competitors & Produce High Traction Content - Express WritersGood luck!
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Why does my co-worker avoid looking at me or talking to me around other people?
Could be he likes you and is painfully shy, and he is freezing up when interacting with you in a more public social setting.
He may be a real introvert, and gets overwhelmed in multi-person settings, but relaxes a bit more with you one to one.That would be my guess.If you like him and want to encourage him, I suggest not focusing on him in public, but be very soft and low key when alone with him.
A way to establish rapport on a one on one setting that tends to soothe men is the following:Mirror his body language in an unobtrusive way (if he changes stance and way of holding his arms, wait for a few heartbeats then slowly shift your stance to mirror his)Dont stand or sit directly across from him as men find that confrontational (women like to converse face to face, men prefer someone they are friendly with to be beside them or at a 45 degree angle), instead position yourself beside him or a bit to the side.If things are going well, slow down your speech to the same tempo as he uses, and try to get your breathing in sync with his.I used these exact methods to establish rapport with a fellow I liked a computer geek meeting, so I know they work with shy fellows.
If he builds his courage up to find a way to spend time with you, that is great
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How do I deal with a person who used to be close to me but suddenly behaves in a strange way and starts ignoring me for no reason?
There must be some reason behind it. You just have to find it, you can find it by talking to her/him.
Same situation happens with me 20 days back, there was a girl and she is just 2 years elder than me. She is a DA (data accountant) in our college, I approached her and she gave her number and we used to talk in night everyday or we used to talk in college also whenever we are free but for some reason when I reach home (holiday after semester paper) and after few days I got to know that her boyfriend knew that she is talking with me but he doesn't want me to talk with her, he threatens me so I stopped talking to her and without saying anything she blocked me, I asked that why these things is happening. .
And your boyfriend is calling me and threatening me she told me she will talk with him, you don't worry. And very next day she blocked me without saying anything. (So I understood that there is a reason behind it, and it was difficult for me but I did it, now I'm happy but still used to think about her)Try to discover what is the reason, if you can find it and able to solve it or remove it then it is better and if you can't/don't.
walk away! Move on!That is the best choice.
P.S : I didn't love her, I was talking with her because she was cute and I like her cuteness. And I get attached to people very soon.
(Correction is appreciable)
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If you are a missionary who knocks on peopleu2019s doors, how do you feel when people are rude?
UPDATE: Per Garrett Hastings answer, and the future rude people who will respond with stories of how they were rude to missionaries, I only have to say that being rude to others who dont share your belief (or non-belief) in any context, even at your front door, is a sign of a society reveling in its own decline. If weve lost the ability to be basically decent to a stranger knocking on our door, then we certainly cannot claim to be a decent society.
In that respect, some of what one might consider the heathen nations or more commonly third world nations are more civilized than we are. Think on that. Im answering as a former missionary (25 years ago) and a somewhat recently released Ward Mission Leader.
I dont knock doors and we encourage our missionaries to spend most of their time getting referrals from church members of their friends who have expressed an interest or who might be open to being invited to a Gospel teaching discussion. The very last thing on a missionarys list should be knocking on doors because its terribly ineffective. But, if I were a door-knocking missionary, I wouldnt have any hard feelings about it.
Id try to empathize with them. Im an uninvited interruption in whatever theyre doing. So, Id better respect that.
Id get to the point quickly and invite them to have a short discussion with us. If theyre rude about it, Id simply thank them for their time and go to another door
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My parents won't let me audition, what do I do?
Your dream will still be there next year and the year after that.
Do what you need to do to get better and better. Take singing lessons. They may seem like a waste of time now, but if you want to become a professional, you need to know as much as possible.
For instance, my daughter missed an opportunity even though she is a fantastic singer because she couldnt read music, The more you put into something, the more people will take you seriously. Singing lessons will expand your voice range. Study with a teacher that teaches classical training to improve your voice for any singing you may do (increases your opportunities)Take dance if you havent already, and continue to take dance.
Moves quickly become outdated, but if you are able to learn moves quickly and/or make up your own, you will open more opportunities.Show biz is tough and young people are often taken advantage of (I could tell you stories). The more life experience you have and the older you are, the more difficult it is for you to be taken advantage of.
Your father is trying to be the voice of reason. Listen to him. When you are old enough that you dont need his permission, ask him to come to auditions with you.
He will have a better idea of what is going on, and others will see you have a protector.
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Why doesn't Haskell use JIT compilation?
There are many use-cases where Haskell JIT could provide significant benefits.
For example, working with scripting languages or external DSLs, it would be most convenient if we could compile a script in terms of composing Haskell functions, then benefit from GHCs constant propagation and inlining and rewrite rules and so on. Another use case is specializing code or plugins developed against an abstract API (a typeclass or a record of methods). Yet another use case is cloud computing or orthogonal persistence, where first-class functions might be constructed and serialized.
GHC does support a plugins package, which can be leveraged in some case. But plugins are awkward to use, and the lack of constant propagation and typeclass specialization for plugins developed against abstract APIs forces plugins users to choose between performance and modularity. As someone who has encountered these use cases and tried plugins, Id be very interested if someone were to develop JIT extensions for GHC.
What Id be most interested in is the sort of Surgical Precision JIT developed for project lancet. For example, instead of implicit and pervasive JIT (which makes performance unpredictable), give me specialize :: function function, an identity operation that improves performance. But, like most normal Haskell developers, I find the idea of diving into GHC to develop a patch to be rather daunting.
So to answer your question, the real reason that Haskell lacks JIT compilation is that it isnt necessary for most use cases and adding it to GHC is non-trivial
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Why doesn't every programming language use the same syntax?
I think it is easy to get caught in the mindset that the current generation is the generation of programmers. That since computer science majors graduating from college has skyrocketed in the last 5 years, it is now that programming is growing and taking over the world.
Due to this, the programming languages that we use today must be the only important languages, and with that mindset, why wouldnt Python, Java, and C all be written with the same syntax? However, all of the above assumptions are naive. Most programming languages that you write in today, are direct decendants of other languages, often times which were written as far back as the 60s.
They were all written to solve different problems, and typically were also evolutions of previous languages, taking what they like from them and then improving upon that (similar to the journey from Java to Scala).There is also the issue of personal preference, with some people simply preferring one style of coding to another, which is often times a good enough reason to support those languages. A great read on this topic is an answer from Alan Kay, credited with inventing the term Object Oriented Programming, which talks a lot about the evolution of early programming languages and how C came to be.
Alan Kay's answer to What did Alan Kay mean by, "I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C in mind."?
