Which Emoji Scissors Close? • Hacker News Board

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by anonymfus » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 1:20 PM UTC

mantap wrote: post #53

surround wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple started it. For a time, a text like this: > Let’s meet at the park [pistol emoji] Would have have very different meanings between platforms. Eventually, all platforms followed Apple and switched to the water pistol. (The ones that still show real pistols are obsolete fonts.) https://emojipedia.org/pistol At this point, Apple gets to decide what emojis look like, not the Unicode Consortium.

Apple spearheaded this but you could imagine Facebook spearheading it and everybody else following. Honestly the original gun emoji was simply a bad idea because it makes it hard to make apps that are age-rated for small children when there's a fricking gun in the system keyboard.

Having a character in the system font does not mean having it on the system keyboard.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by macintux » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 1:25 PM UTC

modo_mario wrote: post #70

Waterluvian wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had hoped that the internet, beyond the 90s, would be a place where almost everyone has a webpage like ours populated with whatever it is the individual decided was noteworthy. To an extent it's come true in a small subset. But discovery is the hard part. Right now discovery leads you to social media pages full of, for the most part, a low budget substitute for air.

I feel like everyone running a webpage/blog like that should have a somewhat standardised page crosslinking to pages/blogs that person likes to keep track off

Reminds me a bit of the old web ring concept. I like your idea better.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by madeofpalk » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

avip wrote: post #55

benatkin wrote: post #9

I really enjoyed this. It is very similar to "Please, enough with the dead butterflies!" [0] I'd like to see a list of everything like this. Similar to Awesome falsehood [1] but not quite. 0: https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies... ( HN 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 ) 1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

https://www.boredpanda.com/entomologist-rates-ant-emojis/?ut...

A thread of rating every horse emoji: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?l...

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by progx » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 1:43 PM UTC

starwarsguy wrote: post #68

this is important

Absolutly! First world problems are really important.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by IgorPartola » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 1:44 PM UTC

This is super amusing but also isn’t this like “which emoji faces have an anatomically correct bone structure?” Or “which floppy icons could be actual floppies?”

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by aasasd » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 1:55 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #78

I don't know wh0 this person is but they do good marketing - the "last post is either ..." is genius.

Well, I hoped to read a similarly opinionated piece on transporting convex objects on a camel :(

But then I went through a bunch more posts, including one on how SVG renderers mix in background color before figuring out the mixed colors of objects—which seems obviously wrong.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by zokier » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

kelnage wrote: post #63

jcranmer wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would a Minié rifle be an anachronism in the Franco-Prussian War, only 20 years and a few hundred miles from the Second War of Italian Independence? (Yes, the Austrians discovered that they were outdated compared to the Prussian guns, and so the French retooled to the chassepot rifles instead.) It's not so much the fact that the technology was wildly obsolete as it is the fact that there are distinct visual styles th…

But your statement is about purchases, rather than common use. Just because 4-6-0 locomotives were being purchased then, it certainly doesn't follow that you wouldn't see any 4-4-0 locomotives in 1870, does it? Especially since 4-4-0s were still being built in the US as late as 1893 according to Wikipedia [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-4-0#United_States

Also "wild west era" is pretty vague to start with and can be considered to cover almost whole 19th century. So the specific situation at 1870s might not be even all that relevant

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by sergiotapia » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 2:19 PM UTC

robbrown451 wrote: post #14

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.

You know what he means dude.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by pvaldes » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 2:28 PM UTC

On the other hand, there is no danger of stepping over a design copyrighted by scissor makers if your scissors do not close.

Re: Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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Post by amelius » Fri, Jan 03, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

These are special scissors that have internal gears that allow them to be closed, even though it doesn't seem like they can be closed. The advantage is that you don't need to move the handles that much, and you train your hand to become stronger.