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but even still - there's probably at least ONE other tech person in your area. It may be difficult to find them, but it's worth it (for sure) to get a community going.
This isn't like online communities where you need 1,000 people before it's interesting. Even just 3 people can make a very interesting local community
Check out local meetups especially, and you'll probably find a smaller, but interesting group of developers you can connect with.
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
I'd say my one topic is actually: "teaching web developers". I happen to talk a lot about React, but I also talk about JS in general, and Rails sometimes too.
That seems to be fine - your topic CAN be something very specific like "React performance improvements", and you'll do well, or it can be something like "How to be a more effective web developer", and that will be ok too - just don't switch between topics like web development, then cooking, then politics, then your dog, then a little more web development, etc.
Sharing some of your life (like your dog, hobbies, etc) is good and is part of you being a "real person", as long as say, 90% of your content follows your major topic.
People will follow you if you are saying things that actually help them. The most effective way is probably teaching something, although sharing your "behind the scenes" story can work as well.
0-10: Start with friends. If you're on twitter for example, following your friends will get you your first few follow-backs
10-50: decide what you're going to be "about". Don't tweet/post about everything - pick ONE or TWO major topics, and just post about those, with the goal of _helping_ people. Share your knowledge. Then, start replying with helpful posts to other big names.
50-100: same as 10-50. Make sure your bio is hyper focused on your one or two topics, and that you post consistently, and with posts that provide a ton of value. Answer people's questions in public.
How I did it:
exactly the same as above until about 500 followers on twitter. Then I had a _giant_ follow event with the twitter thread "Learn React in 10 Tweets": https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1175022111758442497
After that (and gaining several hundred followers in a day, then several thousand in a few more days), it became easier to get engagement on posts. Continue to be helpful to people, and people will continue to follow.
I wrote about the process here too: https://chrisachard.com/triple-your-twitter-following
(I'm the founder/builder of async - happy to answer any questions if you're interested!)
connect your camera via hdmi AND usb, then:
> brew install gphoto2
> gphoto2 --summary
You'll know it worked if you see your camera make/model show up.
That one --summary call is all that's needed for my Canon m50 to stay awake forever! I'm not sure if it works for other models, but when I figured that out I was super happy :)
Doing that, combined with liberally using incognito mode for one-off video watching, helps keeps suggestions actually reasonable.
Non-fiction: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Hoping you can find a solution!
The main reason it's not directly in the FAQ is because it's about a page of pretty specific details - not great for being directly in a FAQ. I could see putting a link to it from there though.
For export from MeetingPlace: as an organizer, you have the ability to export your member list. Each member has an individual setting to let you see their email address or not. So if all the members let you see their email addresses, then you'll be able to export them all.
That's the most fair way I could think to do it: allow the members to decide if the organizer can see their email or not.
Currently I have plans to give organizers tools to track no-shows, as well as the ability to "check in" people.
Do you have specific ideas about what would have been most helpful to you as an organizer?
It already has > 100 live groups around the world, and all the basic features work.
I'm adding a bunch of new features all the time, including virtual events and (soon) remote groups (super important given what's happening):
Happy to answer any questions!
So I believe the sale/spinoff is right away, and that comment in the article is just how long they happened to be apart of WeWork
One of the big problems is that GANs can't generate files at a high enough resolution to make great coloring pages.
I then tried to make a neural network that would generate SVGs directly, which turns out to be really tricky too.
One thing that might work is to generate low resolution pages with a GAN, and then use an image to svg converter to make high resolution versions... maybe I'll try that next :)
Hope that helps!
Here is one of his podcast episodes where he talks about it though - so you can start here: https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-219
Definitely check out Indie Hackers though! The whole community and podcast is built around that idea.
To start solving the problem of equipment being swapped or walking off, that's when you need to look at an active RFID or other real time tracking solution.
- equipment is often managed by a small team who doesn't have the resources to really track down everything
- equipment gets distributed to different departments who then might move it, store it, swap it, it breaks down and they don't tell anyone, etc
- theft can be a big issue: equipment is often very expensive and not very large, which means it has the ability to "walk off"
- different departments (or individuals) might hoard equipment because it can be difficult to get what you need exactly when you need it
- data about what you have can be split across 15 different systems that don't have the ability to talk or reconcile
- "full" real time tracking (like what we made) can be very expensive
So yes - there are systems that can help, but they're expensive and often not a first priority (even though they can help tremendously, especially when it comes time to do maintenance and reordering, etc.)
She said that "social distancing" is a medical technical term that doesn't translate super well to the public.
source: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200317-covid-19-how-lon...