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Comment by crbelaus | Hacker News Reader

After reading the title this was exactly my first thought.

Polluting the titles with emojis feels unnecessary and childish to me. I them a mental burden that makes it difficult to read the important information. I can not imagine a new car announcement page filled with emojis and I don't know why it should be different for software.

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I must admit, as I searched, I didn't think I'd find something so on-point: http://media.gm.com/content/dam/Media/images/US/Release_Imag...

I always figured the Egyptians were wrong, with the hieroglyphics. It seems Chevrolet is proving me right :)

Ha! That's gold right there.

Because software development is dry as hell. Cars can go fast and take you places. Variety is nice and sometimes it's okay to be cheerful.

With emojis in the headlines, I look at a tiny picture for 0.2s (usually related to the headline) and then read the section as normal. How can that be a mental burden?

here's my thoughts as I read through it

rocket - webpack 4 beta... Guess that means launch

present - A promise fulfilled... Present, I guess thats ok

confused person - How to install.. hmmm

rocket - performance.. I guess rockets are fast

fire - Better defaults.. err...

Strong arm - Better defaults.. err...

cake - side effects.. what?

Goat? I think it's a goat - Module Type’s Introduced. what the fuck.

Thank you for putting my thoughts into words.

Add shrugging guy on a skateboard ascii art here.

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