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 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.
I'd agree that for emotional context, it can be useful. But I don't think the way they are used there is easy to understand. I mean what's the meaning of the heart regarding CI or the pen for bugs? Is that indicative of a categorie of commit (CI, bug-fix...) or just to decorate the message?
Also another issue is that emojis are not as easily indexable/searchable.
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.
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 The rate at which they are added, means any given implementation is likely to be out of date, and display nonsense.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.
This isn't ancient Egypt, or MessoAmerica, or any of the other places on the planet that invented/used symbology/ pictogram/hieroglyphs to communicate.
It makes communication MORE difficult and LESS clear.
Text communication is a direct conversion(translation) of speech. You don't say:
"left arrow-jump-levitate-smiley face"
You do however say:
"I'm jumping for joy"
But consider the other possible meanings:
"Gravity is lower over there. Wee. This is fun"
"Did you see jump back there? WooHoo!"
"In the past I would practice yoga and meditation. I liked it."
...
and i could go on.
Because say it with me:
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Which of those thousand words depends on the individual decoding/defining/interpreting the message.
If you find you are unable to convey a clear, concise, unambiguous message using text; you need to read more and perhaps go back to school.
With recent(-ish) support for color emoji in Gnome terminal, where I work has fully embraced emoji driven development.
Kidding aside, it's fine but on older terminals (read: default terminal in ubuntu 16.04) they cause display issues, so they fit a bit better in the README.
- Yeah the globe is the location of your public IP plus socket connections (ie Get-NetTCPConnection / netstat)
- It's slow, and Ctrl C doesn't work. It's not going to replace Terminus (or ConEmu, if you haven't heard about Terminus) as your main terminal anytime soon. But it is fun.
> 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.
That’s my worry about this shell too. Disney aren’t exactly known for being passive about intellectual property (even though half of their iconic movies are based on stories in the public domain).
Oh man ... I remember the time that I was thinking seriously about doing Plymouth theme of HAL9000. The idea was having a little window showing dmesg at boot, and random HAL900 stuff on the other fake screens.
The Martian in book-form is very impressive, it describes patching, in binary form, a bug in wxworks regarding priority inversion.
I worked with people a few years ago who had done the exact same thing, which felt a bit weird. Not on martian rovers or anything but on production systems for electrical networks.
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).
They removed that part of scene from the episode on the DVD. I was watching for it and laughed when I realized it had been excised. Too embarrassing, eh?
To be fair, I can only tell when it's computer-related nonsense, but I absolutely cannot tell if (for example) medical dramas such as Grey's Anatomy are at all realistic, barring reasonable artistic licenses to make a scene more dramatic. The surgeons could be doing something as silly as "hacking the same keyboard" and I wouldn't know. The computer-related scenes in medical dramas are dumb enough that I suspect the medical stuff probably also is, but I can't tell.
My aunt, who was a forensic doctor, would be driven up the walls by the absurdity of the CSI screenplays. I'm an engineer and they manage to trigger me into laughter.
A bit is suspension of disbelief when some inaccuracy is needed by the story (like the sandstorm in The Martian) is tolerable, but completely messing up innocuous stuff you should have hired a field specialist to help you (physics, astronomy, police, medical, anything) with is inexcusable with the kind of budget even a lowly Sharknado has.
Seriously: I love movies. I was torn between engineering and cinema in college. Let's join together to never again have a cringe worthy moment on TV (unless it's there for the comedy value).
The interesting thing is that in the first few seasons NCIS got a lot of the computer tech mostly right (modulo some dramatic license regarding easy access to every possible data source the government might have) but as they relied more on Tim the IT guy as a convenient oracle for moving the plot along it quickly dove into "enhance, enhance, enhance..." mode.
I'm fairly sure NCIS is doing stuff like this on purpose. Like the caf-pows that are always empty to the point of making slurping sounds fresh from the store or that time gibbs didn't know how to use an usb drive so he tried putting it in his mouth.
A bunch of xterm active icons on a purist fvwm look just that impressive
+ai This option enables active icon support if that feature was compiled into xterm. This is equivalent to setting the vt100 resource activeIcon to "true".
The previous title was also inaccurate as I believe it actually labelled it as something like 'TRON OS' - the issue with that, of course, being, this isn't an OS, but an application.
>> If you have a physical keyboard wired to your computer, pressing keys IRL will illuminate the virtual keyboard: please remember to not type any passwords if you are recording your screen!
Or do you have an idea how you would programmatically determine whether input was not echoed due to password, game, or just so that the app can do some pre-processing before displaying the glyph?
It’s funny that regarding this comics content, checking if you have a bird on the photo is like one repository away, nowhere that 5 years and a research team mentioned.
Oh, I at least simply mean on text fields that are formatted, e.g. in CSS, to be password-type fields.
It may even be possible to write a hook into the Terminal client, so, e.g. when the user is asked for sudo permissions, it temporarily disables the glow on the keyboard.
I'm talking about basic solutions that may not cover all the angles, but can cover the most common points. But heck, it's open-sourced, so I know I could implement something like that myself if I wanted to, so I'll shut up. :P
oh hey, thanks! I'm excited this is something people still remember. I hope people get behind this, it's a lot more accessible and there seem to be a lot of people trying it out.
Studios keep pushing the UIs visually but we need to keep up with the ridiculousness
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Super cool. I will have to use it the next time a manager comes to my desk.
One could even imagine opening a website from the globe view.
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"?
Also another issue is that emojis are not as easily indexable/searchable.
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.
Even if they manage to convey a meaning, like the other poster said, that meaning is emotional instead of factual.
Why would anyone ever wish to express emotions in a commit message, or even in a business communications tool like Slack, is beyond my comprehension.
For personal communication they can serve a purpose, but that's not the topic here.
And yet, I don't quite hate them - they can be useful. I just wish we had something better.
It makes communication MORE difficult and LESS clear. Text communication is a direct conversion(translation) of speech. You don't say:
"left arrow-jump-levitate-smiley face"
You do however say:
"I'm jumping for joy"
But consider the other possible meanings:
"Gravity is lower over there. Wee. This is fun"
"Did you see jump back there? WooHoo!"
"In the past I would practice yoga and meditation. I liked it."
... and i could go on. Because say it with me:
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Which of those thousand words depends on the individual decoding/defining/interpreting the message.
If you find you are unable to convey a clear, concise, unambiguous message using text; you need to read more and perhaps go back to school.
Kidding aside, it's fine but on older terminals (read: default terminal in ubuntu 16.04) they cause display issues, so they fit a bit better in the README.
Well, that gave me a stupid idea.
https://github.com/lloeki/he_comes
Whatever.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14939255
https://twitter.com/mikemaccana/status/1065615451940667396
Short version:
- Task manager, CPU cores etc works.
- Touchscreen keyboard works
- Yeah the globe is the location of your public IP plus socket connections (ie Get-NetTCPConnection / netstat)
- It's slow, and Ctrl C doesn't work. It's not going to replace Terminus (or ConEmu, if you haven't heard about Terminus) as your main terminal anytime soon. But it is fun.
Also confirming it works on MacOS, High Sierra.
Glad you finally wrapped up your project! Hope it was fun and informative.
https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...
Pah! Thank you for the link. :)
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.
Here is a full treatment of the Martian screens/interfaces:
https://territorystudio.com/project/the-martian/
The author spent an incredible amount of time matching the fonts and animations to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Unfortunately, he was too good at it, and got a nastygram from the people who own the rights to the film, so it's no longer available.
But I still have my download that I run on my machine, and it's very impressive in a very retro-cool way.
I worked with people a few years ago who had done the exact same thing, which felt a bit weird. Not on martian rovers or anything but on production systems for electrical networks.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1812523/
https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
There's also "Hollywood Terminal" https://www.tecmint.com/fake-hollywood-hacker-terminal/
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
To be fair, I can only tell when it's computer-related nonsense, but I absolutely cannot tell if (for example) medical dramas such as Grey's Anatomy are at all realistic, barring reasonable artistic licenses to make a scene more dramatic. The surgeons could be doing something as silly as "hacking the same keyboard" and I wouldn't know. The computer-related scenes in medical dramas are dumb enough that I suspect the medical stuff probably also is, but I can't tell.
A bit is suspension of disbelief when some inaccuracy is needed by the story (like the sandstorm in The Martian) is tolerable, but completely messing up innocuous stuff you should have hired a field specialist to help you (physics, astronomy, police, medical, anything) with is inexcusable with the kind of budget even a lowly Sharknado has.
Seriously: I love movies. I was torn between engineering and cinema in college. Let's join together to never again have a cringe worthy moment on TV (unless it's there for the comedy value).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTGxzYo_YyY
On that note, I have no idea if this is true, but wouldn't be surprised: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_f...
I’ll leave these two links for everyone to play with.
http://geektyper.com http://www.hackertyper.com
http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/post/160895580781...
+ai This option enables active icon support if that feature was compiled into xterm. This is equivalent to setting the vt100 resource activeIcon to "true".
It's inspired by edex as well as Tron:Legacy but I wanted to keep it short.
New title is less relevant and needless meddling.
Maybe just disable that on password fields? :3
Or do you have an idea how you would programmatically determine whether input was not echoed due to password, game, or just so that the app can do some pre-processing before displaying the glyph?
It may even be possible to write a hook into the Terminal client, so, e.g. when the user is asked for sudo permissions, it temporarily disables the glow on the keyboard.
I'm talking about basic solutions that may not cover all the angles, but can cover the most common points. But heck, it's open-sourced, so I know I could implement something like that myself if I wanted to, so I'll shut up. :P
Works brilliantly on a single click install.
More fleshed and could be a good alternative to the regular shells.
Studios keep pushing the UIs visually but we need to keep up with the ridiculousness
while i'm just using some of the system metric widges, some people go all in and reskin their complete desktop. unfortunatly windows only.
toggle keyboard so it doesn't flash. toggle to hide the keyboard. toggle to retain original shell colors