"We don’t yet see major websites entirely built with webassembly-based frameworks."
The more telling question to me is:
Do we see real world websites that are not just tech demos coming out of WASM aficionados circles. Sites that are actually useful to a significant number of people, even if we wouldn't necessarily call them major websites.
This website made me suddenly have a huge feeling of loss for what the web could be like. It is so snappy (in the way old static sites could be) but without the page transitions that made them fall out of fashion.
> So used to saying "Hi, I'm Marcus, I'm IT Director of <business>" [..]
Risking a stereotype.
In my experience from traveling the world it's a tell-tale sign for being from a culture heavily influenced by the Protestant work ethic. Introduce yourself like that in Spain, Italy, or Brazil and you'll get strange looks.
On the flip side, I've found that people who do not define themselves through their work primarily often do so through family. My younger self is certainly guilty of giving someone a strange look when within the first five minutes of meeting them, they told me whose cousin they were.
In a business/formal context it would be normal to introduce yourself like this in the countries you've mentioned.
Do people introduce themselves like that in informal contexts in the USA? If so that's indeed a bit weird, and more a topic you would start talking about for small talk or if someone asked about it.
I would find it strange if someone introduced themselves to me with their business title. I sometimes ask "what do you do for a living?" as small talk, but that's solicited.
Even when it's solicited, I think it's weird. I don't tell people what I do for a living when I introduce myself. And when they ask, I tell them I'm an exotic dancer. It's a silly joke (since I'm a fat 50 year old) that tends to break the ice and lighten up the conversation. In general, I think small-talking about what you do for a living is not really interesting to people, and just allows them to silently put you somewhere on their mental totem pole of importance. Better to talk about actual interests.
Correct. If you said your title in Spain, you'll get a strange look and someone might respond with "why would you tell me that?". No one there cares what you do for work.
I've also lived on a small island where on first meeting, two locals will work out how they're related. I guess similar to the cousin thing.
In the city I currently live in, it's fairly normal for locals to ask where another local went to school within 5 mins of meeting them, because that establishes an identity here.
Not very common as the intro, but pretty common around here (bay area) to get asked that pretty soon after the intro. I don't like it, and I wished people didn't focus so much on it though.
First time I was in San Francisco and someone introduced themselves like that, going even beyond, was indeed a super weird experience being a brazilian.
What is the strategy after it gets longer than a great circle? Wiggle with constant frequency to "fold" it? Constantly move in one direction to form a spiral? Something completely different?
What we need is a decoupling of the keyboard/mouse events and common shared application functionality.
In my opinion apps should offer an API for cut/copy/paste and the DE maps it to concrete events like Ctrl-C. This would make it easy for people that switch between Mac and Linux to have copy on Super-C and keep Ctrl-C for cancel in the terminal.
Just as a single data point: I use middle mouse paste maybe 90% of the time. The only inconvenience is that you can't select and copy, then select some other text and replace it with what you copied. Oh, and I've been using Wayland full-time for more than 4 years.
This, but it's not only about the additional work but often about additional responsibility.
Taking responsibility for decisions that actually fall within your manager's area of responsibility often puts them in a very comfortable position. At least if they trust you and don't question your loyalty, which is exactly what you also try to reassure them if you want a promotion.
However the net effect is that it's a reliable way to get stuck on that rung of the career ladder indefinitely.
In the early 2000s I helped an engineering from transitioning from the CAD software CATIAv4 to v5.
While v4 was pretty much text based in early v5 every item and action had an icon, often only an icon. The manual read something like this:
"To do ⌘ you navigate from the ⌙ page to the ⌟, while holding the middle mouse button. The⌇will open and you will see the ⌆."
I think they did that with good intentions. CATIA being a French product sold all over Europe and beyond, localization must have been a significant line item. The result was a nightmare though and they to toned the reliance on symbols down in subsequent versions.
The story goes that the looped square icon(⌘) was introduced because Steve Jobs hated to see apples in every menu line. Not only because of the clutter but he thought it diluted the brand.
I think, nowadays, when you order something you get the most cheaply sourced near equivalent the seller thinks they can get away with.
I wore a certain model of Adidas for decades. When I order it online, what I get is hit or miss. Sometimes they are too big, sometimes they are too small. Comparing the old and new ones, they are always similar but also noticeably different.
Where does the diversion happen? Amazon? Adidas? Manufacturer? Probably all of them? Who knows?
On the flip side, Chinese manufacturers seem not care about branding at all. It looks as if they apathetically slap on some carelessly designed logo and brand name just because the west apparently expects it. Otherwise you can get the "same" item under ten different ephemeral brands and every brand ships the aforementioned "near equivalent" as they see fit.
Same for me and a particular North Face light jacket. I’ve purchased the same model about 5 times, with noticeably lower quality materials in the more recent years. Faster wear, quicker fading colors, thinner.
A friend of mine used to say, "Companies that are about to go bankrupt start behaving strangely."
I always just nodded in agreement without really knowing what she meant.
A couple of years later, one morning, I noticed that the daycare my daughter attended had swapped the large iMac in their office for an old Dell monitor. I didn’t think much of it at the time.
Somewhat later, the soft wipes in the diaper-changing room were gone. There only were the cheap, sandpaper-like ones to be found.
Not long after that, they announced their bankruptcy, shortly after the piano had mysteriously disappeared, without any explanation.
The more telling question to me is:
Do we see real world websites that are not just tech demos coming out of WASM aficionados circles. Sites that are actually useful to a significant number of people, even if we wouldn't necessarily call them major websites.
https://cbva.com/
comes to my mind, but there must be more.
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