1 yr. ago • 97%

HTML is a disease and MP3 a Star Wars robot

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I mean, how serious are these surveys? I can see myself answering HTML is an STD as a joke.

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- And JS is the cure. Obviously.
  
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  I got diagnosed with Hyper Transmittable Meat Leprosy 5 years ago... At least I have JavaScript to keep the worst of the symptoms at bay.
  
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  Take two php and call me in the morning
  
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- Here's the original
  
  https://www.science.org/content/article/one-10-americans-thinks-html-sexually-transmitted-disease
  
  According to the Los Angeles Times, the study questioned more than 2300 adults and was conducted by vouchercloud.net, a coupon website that wanted to know how much tech jargon the public knows.
  
  So probably not that serious
  
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  I don't know, given the type of people who frequent "coupon websites," I wouldn't be that surprised if they were answering seriously.
  
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- Probably not a joke but simply people answering multiple choice survey wrong because they don't know. Most likely answer is that most of those people simply have no clue about html instead
  
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- Either it is a multiple-choice that the surveyor fucked up and put STD as an option. Or it is an open question and the "one in 10" is legit.
  
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  It was a 3 option multiple choice according to the original article
  
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- It was done by a coupons website. 12% of the people thought USB was an European country. 18% that blu-ray is an animal. 15% that software is clothing...
  
  There is no way that people were serious.
  
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  Soft-wear...
  
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Buddy and I had to meet with the school counselor for talking about PHP.

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- That's fair tho
  
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- PHP is one hell of a drug.
  
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- "Son, I need to talk to you about your PHP use. It's a dangerous thing, and something you don't want to fall into. I know a few long-time PHP users - they're sad people, spending most of their time raving about syntax and garbage open source projects."
  
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US adults are wild

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- Millions of US adults catch HTML every year. There is no cure or treatment.
  
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Just a mild case of HTML but I'd get that CSS checked out ...

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I can't believe that's recent. I could still see HTML maybe, but my 70+ year old mom knows what an mp3 is.

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- It's not, it's almost 10 years old
  
  https://www.science.org/content/article/one-10-americans-thinks-html-sexually-transmitted-disease
  
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10% of 250 million is 25 million and millions of people could not be wrong. Checkmate!

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Well, what's the portion of U.S. adults who take random surveys too serious?

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So they are nerdy enough to know Star Wars but not nerdy enough to know what HTML is?

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- Star wars is nerdy? One of the most popular theme parks in the world is star wars themed and they have multiple movies that are in the top 50 highest grossing of all time, ever.
  
  Star wars is general pop culture and one of the most successful and widely known fiction franchises of all time.
  
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  I'm just aging myself. That wasn't always the case.
  
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_____-🤡

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HTML sounds enough like a disease

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- Hyper Thyroid and Malignant Ligaments
  
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React is a disease.

EDIT: sorry to any recent bootcamp graduates I offended

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- hater behaviour
  
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- React isn't even bad or hard to learn. You just are stuck in your ways.
  
  Software Engineer of 10 years so not a recent boot camp dev
  
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  I ain't even mad. It's heartwarming to hear they're teaching software classes at the retirement home.
  
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Probably... There might be a STD name same as HTML..

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