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r0n0j0y··on Google search was giving errors when searching “how many emojis on iOS”
I see 'Server Error' for "how many emojis on ios"

Works fine for "how many emojis in ios"

r0n0j0y··on Disney heir calls on company to give 50% of exec bonus to lowest-paid employees
https://media.giphy.com/media/119SFXjoMsax6o/giphy.gif
r0n0j0y··on Inclusive Design Toolkit
Microsoft laying the foundation for Hololens apps?
r0n0j0y··on Indians Spurn Snacks, Shampoo to Load Their Smartphones
Internet > Food?!
r0n0j0y··on DeepExcel – Deep learning in Excel
Hilarious

'Excel is a trademark of Microsoft, we believe'

r0n0j0y··on Why Microsoft's reorganization is a bad idea (2013)
Under the new leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft was reorganized in 2015 - http://news.microsoft.com/2015/06/17/satya-nadella-email-to-...
r0n0j0y··on Does Coding Count as a Foreign Language?
Agree on the cage-match idea. That would be absurd.

But in the not-so-distant future, perhaps effectively communicating with devices might turn out to be a far more valuable skill to have than doing so with humans.

And natural languages are not similar. Knowing languages in which more books and articles are published is going to be more valuable than ones in which there aren't that many.

Of course writing code requires different 'skills' than writing articles but looking at this from a standpoint of employability knowing certain (natural) languages makes someone a better candidate than others. Similarly knowing certain programming languages/platforms might someone more employable too. It's unlikely that someone knows no natural languages and exclusively knows programming languages.

With this background, an interesting question is how does someone who knows (say) C++, Python and Russian weigh against someone who knows (say) English and Java!