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A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by mnx »

voxl_ wrote: post #17
pfp wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not nice to seem it work and I know exactly how I feel about them.

I really don't understand why people seem to hate emojis so much. They're the same as utf8 pictograms, except they're more styled. They can be really useful in my opinion. Maybe it's because young people use them a lot in messaging apps and older people are like "gah! young people and their picture messages! grmbl"?

I'm relatively young. I use emojis daily - they are part of the way we use slack in our company. I still don't really like them. It just feels like they are necessary because we have no standard for embedding actual pictures - and so we are cramming more and more of them into Unicode, using weird hacks like zero-width-joiner sequences, and so on. The rate at which they are added, means any given implementation is likely to be out of date, and display nonsense. They are also often a confusing way to communicate.

And yet, I don't quite hate them - they can be useful. I just wish we had something better.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by FuckOffNeemo »

camkerr wrote: post #18

If anyone is interested, here's a post about the original graphics and interface design from the movie by jt nimoy: https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...

'... Choose emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t.'

Pah! Thank you for the link. :)

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by FuckOffNeemo »

baud147258 wrote: post #20
voxl_ wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't understand why people seem to hate emojis so much. They're the same as utf8 pictograms, except they're more styled. They can be really useful in my opinion. Maybe it's because young people use them a lot in messaging apps and older people are like "gah! young people and their picture messages! grmbl"?

Or perhaps it's because sometime the meaning of emoji can be hard to understand, rather than "gah! young people"

I argue emojois make it easier to understand. Whether conveying sarcasm, frustration, joy or anger. It's much easier to infer the tone of a message using emojis.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by laumars »

camkerr wrote: post #18

If anyone is interested, here's a post about the original graphics and interface design from the movie by jt nimoy: https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...

> I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble. I cringed during the part in Hackers (1995) when a screen saver with extruded "equations" is used to signify that the hacker has reached some sort of neural flow or ambiguous destination. I cringed for Swordfish and Jurassic Park as well.

Jurassic Park's infamous scene was actually UNIX though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)

There was a Linux port too - but not used that in something like 10 years so no idea if it still compiles.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by wild_preference »

baud147258 wrote: post #20
voxl_ wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't understand why people seem to hate emojis so much. They're the same as utf8 pictograms, except they're more styled. They can be really useful in my opinion. Maybe it's because young people use them a lot in messaging apps and older people are like "gah! young people and their picture messages! grmbl"?

Or perhaps it's because sometime the meaning of emoji can be hard to understand, rather than "gah! young people"

Well, in this comment thread we have "it's not nice to see them work [in this case]" and "I'm not sure how I feel about emojis working [in this case]."

So, no, I don't think the issue is that they don't work in this case.

HN definitely does have a knee-jerk hate for them, and if you spend enough time here you'll see that a lot of it really is just "gah, young people." It's the new hate on txt-speak.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by laumars »

kakaorka wrote: post #22

I'm so happy something like this exists. I absolutely love TRON and anything that relates to it. I was really sad that Disney didn't push for a third movie.

Has that been canned? The cartoon TV series[1] was amazingly deep considering it was a kids show but that was cancelled after the 1st season because Disney wanted to focus on a 3rd movie. From what I read, those involved with the cartoon weren't happy (and neither was I, for that matter).

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1812523/

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