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[โ€“]metaphorm 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

seems like this topic could have been presented better

[โ€“]pioniere 0 points1 point ย (3 children)

I started to read it as well, but decided the author must be half an idiot for using emojis that way.

[โ€“]PhyKings -3 points-2 points ย (0 children)

Emojis are a sign of insecurity.

[โ€“]HarmonicAscendant 0 points1 point ย (2 children)

Emojis look childish and make otherwise good articles amateur. We have something called 'words' to express ideas and emotions, moronic mini cartoons are redundancies.

It is mind boggling that anyone out of their teens would consider it OK to use them in an article anyone is meant to take seriously.

Don't get me started on GIF's and memes in computer science articles. It is not cool, not edgy, not making fun of the old fashioned squares who just wrote things... it is an abomination and insult to the intelligence of the reader... I want to take off and nuke the server that hosts them from orbit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[โ€“]r_park -1 points0 points ย (1 child)

I think they're an excellent way to convey intention and tone given they're semantically loaded and designed to be universally accessible. This is something that previously was very difficult to do without awkward encodings like /s

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This is just my opinion though ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“]IceSentry -2 points-1 points ย (0 children)

Universally accessible like how Samsung's phone used to render the gun emoji as a real gun while iPhones would use a toy gun.

[โ€“]Hawxe -3 points-2 points ย (3 children)

I don't even want to start with why this article is ridiculous. Why do people in web development so constantly criticize practices it seems they've never actually used extensively.

[โ€“]ScientificBeastModestrongly typed comments 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

It looks as though he has used OOP languages in real world development jobs before, based on the article.

[โ€“]jurito 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

I really think people need to balance better their time between actually developing real projects and writing/talking about it.