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> Emojis in source code and program output, eh, not my style but it's harmless.

Only they do not indicate anything critical. Not everyone has emoji-capable fonts installed.

I used to place emojies in our critical failure message box. Basically I have a list of 'bug' emojies, and would randomly select one to display in the message box.

Ideally no-one except developers ever saw this box, but gave myself a laugh at least whenever our app crashed in a bad way.

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