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I have a friend who used to start every meeting with writing down how much the meeting will cost the company (pp person/hour, etc.) on a whiteboard.

They worked for a university's budget controller, so large meetings were regular, but, fortunately infrequent!


You could create a subreddit or something similar instead of a website.

You'd still face traction and backlash issues, but it seems like a lot less effort and commitment to get started.


Thanks.

I have a subreddit called HealthWorks. It has no real traction.

I have had several health sites over the years. They get no real traction.

The problem is not setting up a website. I have a zillion of them.

The problem is mostly positioning and framing and getting audience engagement. I've never figured that piece out.

I know a lot about health stuff, so much so that when I begin talking about what you can do for yourself at home, people get all up in arms and accuse me of "practicing medicine without a license" and things like that.

I started a site a few weeks back in reaction to the pandemic called Stop Touching Your Face and someone kindly gave me feedback on positioning it, but I never developed it. I don't think it works to talk about the pandemic and try to address the pandemic directly.

I have a health site about my medical condition. I rarely update it.

I am continuing to think on the problem space and I hope to eventually find a way to talk about stuff and have it go well. But I find it crazy making that people are openly hostile to the stuff I want to talk about. I don't get that.

You know someone with potential solutions in a life threatening situation and your response is rage and downvotes instead of trying to help them figure out how to better talk about it? Are you, like, trying to die or something?

I just honestly don't get that. I never have. It's the same reaction people with my medical condition give me and it makes no sense to me at all.


Honda LaneWatch (blind spot camera) is easily my favorite car safety feature.

Unfortunately, it's more expensive to manufacture, compared to standard blind spot warning systems, and the average customer does not appreciate it (by sales). Instead, Honda has received many angry complaints that the radio/media console is unavailable when changing lanes or when the user has left the blinker on.


Also consider non-Western languages (CJK, Russian, Arabic). My team got bit by this when we discovered we couldn't render emoji's client-side.


Photopea appears to do it properly with feature testing (no UA checks): https://www.photopea.com/willitwork/test.js

FYI, Modernizr is a fantastic library for browser feature testing. You can just "add to cart" the tests you want to perform. No hand rolling necessary: https://modernizr.com/


The Demon Hunter and Blademaster is each player's respective hero/champion and essentially a free powerful unit.

The DH player has the advantage during the early game, so is scouting around the map (the Fountain of Health being a likely location) to find an easy fight.


Semi-related, it's hard to imagine being defrauded out of cremation remains, but it's apparently quite likely to happen during pet cremations (due to the cost to run the machines, multiple smaller pets are processed at the same time and you won't necessarily get back what you sent).

This Freakonomics episode goes into more detail: http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/14/the-troubled-cremation-of...


It took a stressful few months for me to make this similar realization. I don't know why it felt so profound at the time, but I imagine a lot of developers (myself included) get their start wanting to create stuff that people want [to use] or that will help their company [be more successful].

Unfortunately, the developer's primary job isn't to make business decisions/ideas and fighting that battle for life and death is many times a lost cause. Fortunately, a good attitude to takeaway is to always have pride in doing good work and believing that a good idea is still a good idea even if you can't convince anyone else (today). Tomorrow, you can wake up and try again.


A catchy name, with fewer syllables, or fun acronym has some value does it not?


That's an incredibly empathetic approach to interviewing, I'll try to keep that method in mind. I tend to be overly critical to a fault.

How do you phrase or bring up your praise/concerns?


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