On the other hand, there is no danger of stepping over a design copyrighted by scissor makers if your scissors do not close.
Makers of non closing scissors might sue you if their business is not running well lately.
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#122Earlier 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.
Why?
I’m a youth firearms instructor - are you saying that any app that contains so much as an icon shaped like a gun is inappropriate for children?
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you're making such an app, you'd be filtering the content for obscenities anyway. I mean, Unicode already includes a swastika character [1]. Wouldn't you just add the gun emoji to your list of censored words and emojis? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Written_characters
Per your link, the swastika is a religious symbol for a large number of people for a long time. It's strange to suggest that it is an obscenity just because a small number of people used it to mean something bad.
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#124Even if you don’t care about scissor physics, read the article for the A-level file pun, which is fully worth the price of admission.
I missed the pun initially because I associate that icon (U+1F4C1) with a folder, not with a file. :(
Are folders not a type of file? Or is it that files are types of folders? Hmm...
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've added these to https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple . Thank ya.
I wish more old www sites were still up. YTMND suffered a server failure. fark.com seems up, but rather a shadow of its former self. Shock sites seem to have mostly gone away or devolved into a sea of ads. (Your site gave a sudden surge of nostalgia, and for some reason those sites were the first to jump to mind.) https://poo.com/ is another slice of old www style. It's not a shock site, just a chat site. But it has…
How about modernizing the old animated gif/flash sites so they work in modern browsers? I've started on hamster dance[0] and leekspin[1], but the sounds leave something to be desired (hamster dance is more annoying than I remember, and I completely forgot the sound on leekspin).
0: https://efreak.github.io/loopy/hampsterdance/hampdance.html 1: https://efreak.github.io/loopy/leekspin/
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#126I 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
You inspired me to go hunting around Hacker News and I ended up with this lil' curated list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 :)
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#127I 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
You inspired me to go hunting around Hacker News and I ended up with this lil' curated list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 :)
That's really great! I'm surprised it didn't make it onto the front page. Oh well.
I wouldn't have thought so if it had made it, but I think think maybe the name should be changed to something like "Awesome Uncanny Design" or something, and perhaps the logo could be something that evokes the uncanny valley or the twilight zone or something. The current one might make it sound like we want to ban this stuff, which is not the idea. I just want people to be aware of it. It also isn't all crap, so maybe an upside down smiley face would be a more fitting emoji, or a horse, parachute, butterfly, or another example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Thanks! Not only did you make something I thought should exist, it helped me find the Caddy GitHub issue about cogs which was super interesting.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
You inspired me to go hunting around Hacker News and I ended up with this lil' curated list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 :)
That's really great! I'm surprised it didn't make it onto the front page. Oh well. I wouldn't have thought so if it had made it, but I think think maybe the name should be changed to something like "Awesome Uncanny Design" or something, and perhaps the logo could be something that evokes the uncanny valley or the twilight zone or something. The current one might make it sound like we want to ban this stuff, which is…
Yeah, I admit I was stuck on what to name it too! Uncanny evokes a nature of mystery, which I'm not sure is totally approproate here.
Haha! I literally just Google'd "something that is attempted but misses the mark", after writing the above paragraph, and I found this article on Wikipedia [1]. It means "tragic flaw" or "to miss the mark". Feels quite apt! Perhaps "Hamartian Design" could work.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's really great! I'm surprised it didn't make it onto the front page. Oh well. I wouldn't have thought so if it had made it, but I think think maybe the name should be changed to something like "Awesome Uncanny Design" or something, and perhaps the logo could be something that evokes the uncanny valley or the twilight zone or something. The current one might make it sound like we want to ban this stuff, which is…
Yeah, I admit I was stuck on what to name it too! Uncanny evokes a nature of mystery, which I'm not sure is totally approproate here. Haha! I literally just Google'd "something that is attempted but misses the mark", after writing the above paragraph, and I found this article on Wikipedia [1]. It means "tragic flaw" or "to miss the mark". Feels quite apt! Perhaps "Hamartian Design" could work. [1] https://en.wikipedi…
Interesting! First I've heard of the term Hamartian. I think it works amazingly.
I see you updated the repo. It looks good. I hope it gets noticed and other stuff gets added. Could submit it to https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/
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#130Note that scissors cut well when kept partially closed (instead of repeatedly fully opening and closing)