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Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by robbrown451 »

uptown wrote: post #11

I realize this opinion is likely to be unpopular, but this industry wastes so much time and energy on such irrelevant things.

Are you talking about the article? Because the people creating the emojis clearly didn't spend a lot of time checking that the scissors would actually work, which it seems like you'd approve of.

The article itself isn't so much "the industry" as a blogger just trying to write something amusing.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by tehlike »

Eikon wrote: post #5
haecceity wrote: post #2

Why does Facebook have 3 sets of emojis?

Different groups working on different projects, lack of communication and global company vision or even internal competition leads to wasting money producing the same thing multiple times. Basically the "Not Invented Here" syndrome, at the company level.

You could actually end up wasting more money if you get "alignment". Thats why things take a shit ton of time for the most part.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by kempbellt »

uptown wrote: post #11

I realize this opinion is likely to be unpopular, but this industry wastes so much time and energy on such irrelevant things.

Wasting time on irrelevant things? Like someone taking the time to post a comment about something they consider to be irrelevant? ;)

I wouldn't consider this to be a depiction of the "industry". Someone pulled on an OCD thread and shared what they found with the community, and now I'll be on the lookout for poorly designed scissor emojis as a result...

It was a fun read for me - one of the less serious posts for today being the kick off of a new decade. Reminds me of how there are so many colors of hand emojis now. I wonder if they'll try and make scissor emojis that represent left and right handed people equally at some point - letting the user decide.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by delish »

uptown wrote: post #11

I realize this opinion is likely to be unpopular, but this industry wastes so much time and energy on such irrelevant things.

If "waste" is "many organizations making the same emoji," and if the alternative is a standards committee, I think standards committees are hit or miss. I'm fine with organizations doing it themselves.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by na85 »

jcranmer wrote: post #10
Gaelan wrote: post #4

[0] is a twitter thread in a similar vein about train emojis. [0]: https://twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/1192557730709622790

Interesting how almost everyone goes for a 4-4-0 style train with the American-style balloon smokestack. It's funny that this is called "wild west" because it's rather anachronistic for that design. In the 1870s and onward, railroads are buying 4-6-0 trains instead of 4-4-0 trains. And the balloon shape is a feature of wood-burning locomotives (which produce a lot more embers and sparks than coal does). The Great Pla…

I know very little about the 1800s outside of European warfare. Was railway technology really advancing so rapidly in the United States that missing the mark by a mere 20 years and a few hundred miles counts as an anachronism?
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