Well since you can have hardware emulator in javascript, we surely became less impressed in what you can run in the browser.
example that come in mind
http://bellard.org/jslinux/index.html
This is why the internet is bad for your self-image. In the whole world there are only a handful of people who could write something like jslinux. But, because of the internet, we have all seen it and consider this the reference to live up to. Well, most people cannot ever live up to fabrice bellard. I'm sure my work will never live up to his work. Does that mean all my work is automatically rubbish?
In my opinion, we should compare other people's work to our own work. If we compare against the work of the very best then 99.9% of things will fall short of what they should have been.
This is absolutely right. "Oh you create search algorithms at Bing? Mleh. I find that Google's search algorithms are so much better." And you hear this from people who can barely use grep.
I think someone's work needs to evaluated on their own merit, or with one's own work, vs. some other genius's work.
