I have yet to experience the "acceleration" aspect.
I wondered why the pages load so slow these days.
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Truly, many of us get that the poor contractor is at the mercy of the idiocy of the client. Many of us have the scars from it.
But a lot designers are complicit as well. At the very least, as you say, if you want to get paid, you've got to at least ape what the clients want. And many designers are also just as stupid as their clients.
I used to build websites. Then the market finally got to the point where the client knew more than the designer and that's when I quit. I literally said "no" to clients right to the poor house.
Hence, the sorry state of web design these days. Dancing hamsters, the lot.
You've been warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TzAQXVpB8
The goal of AMP is to produce lightweight pages, which publishers SHOULD be able to create by themselves, simply using self-control to not stuff their own pages full of shit.
THIS. This right here is the nut in the shell.
All other arguments are moot and spectacle.
Not making lightweight webpages the way god intended is the REAL fucking problem. Everywhere.
I do NOT understand the downvotes for this. Poser designers? Clueless marketing bog brains? Wankerific script kiddies who just THINK they know how to design and build websites? The special-places-in-hell advert channel server business? Fuck off the lot of you.
All of them shitting in the nest by the tanker ship.
Does this mean I support AMP? Fuck no. The last damn thing the Internet needs it yet ANOTHER fucking protocol.
The lack of integrity in the voting syustem that allows multiple voting and voting by non-citizens is a far larger issue.
A repeatedly proven urban myth where the incidents that did happen were statistically unimportant and mostly committed by GOP supporters.
This is yet another clear violation of contractor labor laws as well.
The law clearly states that a contractor must be able to determine how best to fulfill the work required and if the client, in this case, Uber, micro manages the actual work, they are in effect, now employers.
The law clearly states you can't have it both ways and was created to prevent just this scenario.
When I worked for IBM almost 7 years ago, we had once a week morning briefings with an agent in India who had a very thick accent, lots of background noise and a very bad phone line. You can imagine the fun that was.
I never could figure out why as we also had agents in the same city who handled the client account.
This was the same on 2 other IBM client accounts I worked at.
IBM service is about building a Kafka level of bureaucracy, where the lowest paid grunts do the real work, are often contractors, answer to multiple bosses and are never promoted while the "managers" play email round robin and change the SLA policies almost daily. What was right today is wrong tomorrow, so you are forever doing something wrong.
You are set up for failure from "go". Fuck IBM. Hard.
Most small businesses I've seen do not really have an IT department. As the other poster just said, it's usually on or two people or someone on-call at most and they are woefully underpaid and inexperienced.
So they get what they pay for.
Same for their actual systems. Obsolete and put together by some hack that would literally take weeks for an outside person to do discovery and mapping before even attempting to repair and optimize, which of course, they don't have the budget and time for.
Theoretically, small businesses are an untapped goldmine for on-call and consultant IT, but in reality, it's a low budget nightmare.
They'd have to think about whole new ways to make things complex.
Nailed it. The whole point of the early days of the Internet was that almost anyone could learn how to build a website.
Hell, anyone remember Netscape Composer? I built my first websites with that.
Now? Do we really need literally dozens of scripts and languages to create a damn website? No. It's just nerd boi circle jerking at the gates of the priesthood of the temple of corporate mammon to REALLY bad pron, at this point.
Dial it back from 11. It's my bandwidth, not yours.
And these will be the VERY same people that tell everyone they need to work harder and can't give you a raise this year because of some trivial infraction of your daily duties.
Funny how the 21st century looks a lot like the 19th century.
You'd almost think they'd never heard of Marie Antoinette.