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by dotopotoro 1459 days ago
> target got painted where the arrow landed.

Commenting mainly to say that I like this phrase very very much. Creative, Witty and at the same time so descriptive.

On the win32 point, it is adressed in the article:

> I also realized that there are two distinct senses of the word "narrow":

> - In terms of architectural connection (topology). For example, applications and physical networks are decoupled by the the Internet's narrow waist. They don't interface directly with each other.

> - In terms of the size of the concept. <snip> But the web is a large set of concepts (HTTP, HTML, SVG, etc.).