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Which emoji scissors close (2020)
- ziacker 4y ago
- Amorymeltzer 4y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21942358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21942358
- cloudier 4y agoSimilar posts: - Ants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17555842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17555842 - Smiling faces: https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-miscommunication-using-emoji/ https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m... - Butterflies: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ - Trains: https://mobile.twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/1192557730709622790 https://mobile.twitter.com/BisTheFairy/status/11925577307096... - Horses: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?lang=en https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1191872816372600832?l... - Planets: https://mobile.twitter.com/physicsJ/status/1232662211438370817 https://mobile.twitter.com/physicsJ/status/12326622114383708... - Telescopes: https://mobile.twitter.com/BeckePhysics/status/1233414553607819267 https://mobile.twitter.com/BeckePhysics/status/1233414553607... - Parachutes: https://darekkay.com/blog/parachute-emoji/ https://darekkay.com/blog/parachute-emoji/ - Chickens: https://www.tumblr.com/ub-notactive/176663342440/reviewing-and-rating-the-chicken-emojis https://www.tumblr.com/ub-notactive/176663342440/reviewing-a... - Snakes: https://anothertiredmonster.tumblr.com/post/156610510939/snake-emoji-review https://anothertiredmonster.tumblr.com/post/156610510939/sna...
- culi 4y agoThis is an incredible collection. Thank you so much for keeping it
- dang 4y agoI still want to write some software to support community-curated lists of related links. It would include whatever I'm currently posting as "related"* plus fabulous contributions like cloudier's above. * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20related&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- bondarchuk 4y agoYou often find these on github as "awesome-[something]" and accepting contributions as PRs.
- stavros 4y agohttps://linkpack.io https://linkpack.io? https://www.linkpack.io/lp/5nGYs4/ https://www.linkpack.io/lp/5nGYs4/
- culi 4y agoThis is also a dream of mine and I have many thoughts around this. I have a lot of little collections like this list and have always wanted a way to open this up to community contributions I also don't think "awesome lists" are a sufficient solution for a number of reasons. Like this list is a perfect example of something that would (1) definitely get ignored on GitHub, (2) not reach the most likely target audiences, (3) not be easy to contribute to for basically anyone who doesn't know what a "git" is (so, the majority of people on earth)
- dang 4y agoIf you (or anyone!) have any concrete ideas to offer about how list of related links could best be incorporated into HN's UI, I'd like to hear them! We'd be looking to make the minimum possible change while adding such a feature. The goal is a "splash free dive" as sctb used to say. Most ways that I've thought of doing it (so far) involve too much splash.
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- password4321 4y agoThe additional commentary is nice. Sites like https://emojipedia.org https://emojipedia.org et al. include many vendored representations of emojis.
- Phrodo_00 4y agoAlso for turtles. This might be the originator of the format? It's the first I was aware of, anyway. https://poison-liker.tumblr.com/post/153488305349/official-ranking-of-every-turtle-emoji-on https://poison-liker.tumblr.com/post/153488305349/official-r...
- cloudier 4y agoI think you’re right that the turtle one is the first (or at least one of the first) but there are lots of emoji reviews - see https://www.reddit.com/r/EmojiReview/#sort=top;t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/EmojiReview/#sort=top;t=all or https://www.tumblr.com/emojiratingcollection https://www.tumblr.com/emojiratingcollection. Most of them rate emojis only aesthetically. I wanted to only cover reviews that included details about how realistic the emojis in its category are.
- berjin 4y ago- Rocket emojis turned into real rockets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pn0rHTpwvo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pn0rHTpwvo
- philshem 4y agoAnd in summary (tl;dw) https://imgur.com/xDZZntj https://imgur.com/xDZZntj https://youtu.be/9Pn0rHTpwvo?t=781 https://youtu.be/9Pn0rHTpwvo?t=781
- no_time 4y agoThe butterfly one reminded me of how much I liked reading the now elusive and Pagerank murdered non techie blogs that would pop up a few results under Wikipedia in biology/physics related queries.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agothe trains one killed me > EAT SHIT/10 FUCK THIS I'[M DONE
- Joker_vD 4y agoThat's the first time I've heard that there are left- and right-handed scissors. Is there actually a noticeable difference in usage?
- the_mitsuhiko 4y agoI accidentally bought a left handed scissor for my son and we had to return it. Was incredibly uncomfortable to use.
- BugsJustFindMe 4y agoHandle ergonomics aside, because scissors aren't required to have ergonomic handles, you really want the nearer blade on the bottom so you can see exactly where the cut will be. A nearer top blade would overhang and obstruct the view of the cut line. People talking about causing the paper to fold are either describing how they have subconsciously tilted the scissors to be able to see where they are cutting or the fact that many but not all scissors have handle shapes that curve wrong if held in the wrong hand so they end up holding those specific scissors oddly, which means that the scissors are no longer slicing perpendicular to the paper. But handle curvature is not a requirement of scissors, just a characteristic of some of them. If the scissors don't have ergonomically sloped handles, an ambidextrous person can comfortably cut with either hand if they don't look at what they're doing.
- bagels 4y agoMost people are used to using really cheap, dull scissors with poor blade contact. That's what makes the paper fold over.
- lyptt 4y agoI never much point in them as a kid. I'm left handed and I found it harder to use left handed scissors in my left hand than using right handed scissors in my right hand.
- NackerHughes 4y agoIt depends, I guess. I'm left-handed and sometimes I like to hold the object I'm cutting with my left hand, rather than the scissors.
- OJFord 4y agoI've never really understood (said like I've spent much time thinking about it!) why wrong-handed scissors are so difficult/impossible to use. We must angle them slightly, sub-consciously, w.r.t. our standing vertical (out of the plane projected forward from our figure)?
- sushid 4y agoAre you a lefty? I'm a lefty scissors user as well so I've gotten used to right hand scissors (you just push the bottom blade to the right as you cut). That may not be the case for most right handed folks since it "just works" most of the time.
- OJFord 4y agoNo, right-handed, but left-handed were readily (read: overly) available at school so I recall trying them thinking surely it's just a comfort thing at most how could it possibly make a difference, and the paper or whatever just flopping up parallel to the blades instead of being cut.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoThat happens the other way round too, hence the workaround GP suggested. It's a little uncomfortable because you naturally push the other way while cutting, but you can get used to it. When you use left handed scissors with your right hand, you apply some force to the blades that moves them slightly apart, while with right-handed ones, you force them together tightly. You need to actively work against that.
- tomcam 4y agoI just gave up & learned scissors, guitar, fencing, etc right-handed. Only things I do as a lefty are writing and baseball.
- Double_a_92 4y agoBecause you subconsciously push the blades togheter in the right way, so the gap gets narrower and the cut sharper. While if the scissor is mirrored you pull them apart.
- mc32 4y agoIt’s an icon. A representation of the actual thing. It does not have to conform to actual physical requirements. It’s neat I guess, but isn’t really a productive pursuit.
- samb1729 4y ago> It’s neat I guess, but isn’t really a productive pursuit. Yes, and? No one claimed otherwise. It's just a fun thing someone did, shared with other people who might want to be briefly entertained.
- jraph 4y ago> It’s an icon. A representation of the actual thing. It does not have to conform to actual physical requirements. The article say it. > but isn’t really a productive pursuit. It's fun and kinda interesting though. If you reflect on what productive things enable, at the end, it's always "futile".
- Sohcahtoa82 4y ago> It’s neat I guess, but isn’t really a productive pursuit. Heaven forbid someone's curiosity doesn't result in something useful. Sometimes people do things for fun and self-satisfaction.
- aidenn0 4y agoFrom TFA: > Unlike the real world tool it represents, the emoji’s job is to convey the idea, especially at small sizes. It doesn’t need to be able to swing or cut things. Nevertheless, let’s judge them on that irrelevant criterion.
- berjin 4y agoThat didn't stop someone testing rockets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pn0rHTpwvo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pn0rHTpwvo
- squokko 4y agoMicrosoft's emojis are so bad that it seems like they were intentionally made terrible.
- cglong 4y agoThey've been updated for Windows 11, which was released after this article :)
- alexambarch 4y agoI love watching people go in depth and get passionate about something that seems so trivial. The next time someone asks why I don't use Microsoft's emojis I'll let them know it's because it takes too long to cut things with their scissor emoji.
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- jonathankoren 4y agoWhenever I peruse emojidex or any other emoji comparison, it's obvious that Apple that sets the emoji and pretty much everyone else copies it.
- Gigachad 4y agoApple is usually first to get their designs in to the OS so everyone else sort of has to or they will be the odd ones out. Especially when most users are on iOS, the expectations are set on what ios displays it as.
- jonathankoren 4y agoYou only look odd when you override the OS default. Then You’re odd all the time. Even if you ape it, like web Twitter, you’re still odd, because the small differences are even more pronounced. Most designers may be on iOS, but saying most users are on iOS is objectively not true, except in very niche apps. It’s cargo cult.
- Gigachad 4y agoDepends on your target market. In places like India, Android absolutely dominates. In countries like the US and Australia, iOS does. Especially among younger users where iOS has almost universal coverage.
- tsomctl 4y ago> My last post was about either How to transport a convex object on a camel or Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection. Find out which. I realize one option is supposed to be ludicrous, but based on this post, either option is possible.
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- alambra 4y agoA lot of the emojis also seem to have a bevel along the inside cutting edge, making it impossible to cut anything because the edges of the two blades don't meet. A real pair of scissors would only have a bevel on the outside edge.
- jtolmar 4y agoLovely little collection of sites like this, which showed up last time - https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple https://href.cool/Crimes/Simple (I linked to the category that the scissors is filed under, but the collection is extensive)
- mgdlbp 4y agoIronically named site doesn't like deep linking -- navigate from https://href.cool/ https://href.cool/
- jimmaswell 4y agoThe handles could be designed to overlap in the 3rd axis. I think I've seen scissors like this but I can't find an example.
- wodenokoto 4y agoSome Fiskars scissors have an overlap [1] others have a shape that allow for an overlap, but don't actually meet when closed [2] [1] https://arcus-www.amazon.ae/Fiskars-67517197J-Original-Orange-Handled-Scissors/dp/B0019N4V4S https://arcus-www.amazon.ae/Fiskars-67517197J-Original-Orang... [2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiskars-Classic-Dressmaking-Scissors-Length/dp/B0001P08L0 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiskars-Classic-Dressmaking-Scissor...
- jwilk 4y agoThey do consider overlapping handles in "Non-conducive depictions". Not sure why not elsewhere.
- cafeinux 4y agoThey consider overlapping handles only in cases where the handles seem to merge seamlessly with the blade, that's why.
- knolan 4y agoWhat about the original scissors? –––––8<–––––
- hunter2_ 4y agoThe handedness of the Google scissors seems deducible to me based on the shading, and the author seems to have disregarded the shading so as to incorrectly identify the handedness and therefore draw a nonsensical closed position.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoA rare case where Apple design showed laziness!
- TheRealNGenius 4y ago
- ryandrake 4y ago(originally posted to the wrong article, LOL) I love these little measures of attention to detail. You can tell when a craftsman really thought about their work, vs. when a mere implementer stops once the design is shippable and the requirements are met. Similar to the "Cheese in the wrong place" controversy over the Google burger emoji[1]. 1: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/googles-burger-emoji-shows-cheese-in-the-wrong-place-its-driving-twitter-insane-3078368 https://www.elitedaily.com/p/googles-burger-emoji-shows-chee...
- LukeShu 4y agoHN truncates URLs for display, and it looks like you copied the truncated version from your original post. fixed link: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/googles-burger-emoji-shows-cheese-in-the-wrong-place-its-driving-twitter-insane-3078368 https://www.elitedaily.com/p/googles-burger-emoji-shows-chee...
- ryandrake 4y agoOMG. I need to put either the keyboard or the beer away for the night.
- foolfoolz 4y agoemojis are metaphors not replicas
- eurasiantiger 4y agoCeci n'est pas des ciseaux.
- Zircom 4y agoFor the record, people and restaurants put cheese on the bottom of the burger/sandwich all the time so I wouldn't say Google was wrong.