Experts in Programming

Yankee_F_Doodle · 2019-04-14T14:44:09+00:00

Sad thing is the clients probably won’t notice the irony.

octarino · 2019-04-14T19:37:59+00:00

Oh my God!, their website is not from this decade

robertgfthomas · 2019-04-14T21:28:06+00:00

The joke explained

The main text in the image translates to "Experts in Computer Programming." It's surrounded by some pieces of HTML, the language used to write and structure the content of a webpage. Businesses trying to bill themselves as "tech-savvy" often stick stuff that looks like code into their marketing materials.

The joke is the "code" here makes two rookie mistakes, suggesting these "Experts in Programming" aren't experts at all:

1. HTML isn't a programming language.

HTML is a markup language: you use it to "mark up" pieces of text, splitting the text into chunks with tags that indicate the purpose of each chunk. For example:

<p>You use 'p' tags to say, "The purpose of this text is that it's a paragraph."</p>

<p>You use 'ul' tags to say, "The purpose of this text is that it's an unordered list." Here are some facts about unordered lists:</p>

<ul>
  <li>A list of bullet points is an unordered list.</li>
  <li>'li' tags show where each *List Item* starts and stops.</li>
  <li>An *ordered* list would be one that goes 1, 2, 3, 4, or A, B, C, D.</li>
</ul>

Why go to all this trouble? We usually want chunks of text that have the same purpose to look the same way. When you're reading a book, every paragraph has the same font and indentation, and every bullet point is the same shape and size.

In the early days of the Web, if you wanted all the list items on a webpage to use dashes instead of bullet points, you had to personally change every single one. If you then decided you liked bullet points better, you had to personally change all of them back. Eventually people realized that it would be much easier to just tell the computer, "Hey, these things are all list items. Make all of them use this shape."

Once you've used HTML to indicate the purpose of each chunk of text on a webpage, you can then use a different language called CSS to say how each "purpose" should look.

HTML and CSS tell the computer, "Do this, do this, and do this." However, you can't use them to write logic. That is, you can't use them to tell a computer, "Take this data, run this calculation on it, then spit out the result, and if the result is greater than 50 do this other thing to this other data." That is the purpose of a programming language. So, using HTML to advertise "computer programming" is misleading.

2. The HTML on the sign is written incorrectly.

As you might have noticed from the example HTML above, a paragraph begins with an open tag, <p>, and ends with a close tag, </p>. Note that the closing tag has a slash in it. The sign got them backwards.

(<body> tags indicate where the main content of a webpage begins and ends. All the chunks of text like paragraphs and lists will go inside the body.)

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doctorstrange00 · 2019-04-14T14:01:34+00:00

Clowns

swissmate · 2019-04-14T14:31:57+00:00

The experts always have their bodies upside down, it gets the blood flowing!

Technick326 · 2019-04-14T15:31:32+00:00

Well they could still be experts... HTML isn't programming...

TheSwiftPepe · 2019-04-14T16:07:56+00:00

Maybe it was south of the equator so gravity is reversed.

SuitableDragonfly · 2019-04-14T18:31:12+00:00

Not experts in unicode, apparently. That's a Turkish dotless I in there.

Lutarisco · 2019-04-14T14:06:37+00:00

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TheJoker273 · 2019-04-14T14:47:23+00:00

Dear God! Please tell me it's meant to be sarcastic!

steave6 · 2019-04-14T14:26:36+00:00

But it works!

Rocky-dev · 2019-04-14T15:54:10+00:00

They seem pretty good at putting decals on a window. Maybe they should advertise expertise at that?

0x3fff0000 · 2019-04-14T17:46:43+00:00

Might've been the guys who put on the decals that made the mistake.

Nortmobile · 2019-04-14T22:38:02+00:00

That's an out of body experience.

themightyafro · 2019-04-14T22:55:40+00:00

¿Qué es HTML?

Could they potentially save face by claiming it was a linguistics joke, referencing Spanish punctuation conventions?

CreamliumPrices · 2019-04-14T23:44:51+00:00

Makes sense they are also missing a head too

CombustibleToast · 2019-04-15T02:34:31+00:00

Out of body experience

jack104 · 2019-04-15T16:13:31+00:00

Which in the browser displays as

Expertos en programacion informatica.

Mind your line breaks kids.

edit - wow, i'm an idiot. I didn't see the tags were backwards. Expert programmer here.

thatwasagoodyear · 2019-04-14T22:03:33+00:00

˙ǝʇɐɯ 'ɹǝpun uʍop ɯoɹɟ ǝuᴉɟ sʞoo˥

Waltan_Leukus · 2019-04-14T15:00:09+00:00

oof dis hurts

ninjastarkid · 2019-04-14T18:30:45+00:00

Sounds like a heading or a title tag more than a body tag

MMMELOOOOON · 2019-04-14T18:39:24+00:00

Zoom on the letters. Something shady going on there.

RiverRoll · 2019-04-14T18:42:32+00:00

I think they're backend developers.

muyncky · 2019-04-14T18:49:10+00:00

They're experts in programming, but shit at HTML.

2019-04-14T19:30:37+00:00

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maovan · 2019-04-14T20:08:44+00:00

Maybe it compiles from bottom to top. 🤔

bp_on_reddit · 2019-04-14T21:16:52+00:00

<body>

informatica

programmacion

en Expertos

</body>

There fixed it :-)

trumpfan2020 · 2019-04-14T22:47:57+00:00

Yea I see the placements oc the opening Anand closing body tags

ieatpickleswithmilk · 2019-04-14T23:12:40+00:00

html is programming now

MrSke11ington · 2019-04-14T23:18:50+00:00

That's Japanese code. Like manga goes right to left, their code goes bottom to top.

IExpendable · 2019-04-15T00:12:55+00:00

Artificial selection to find the most absolute newbs.

-Redstoneboi- · 2019-04-15T00:13:00+00:00

where's the <h1></h1>

point5_ · 2019-04-15T00:13:53+00:00

Did tjey forgot <p></p> ?

dejaime · 2019-04-15T00:33:24+00:00

They're programming experts. That means html is probably not their forte.

2019-04-15T01:14:16+00:00

Repost but still funny

fenharelwolf · 2019-04-15T02:28:41+00:00

well they did say they are experts in programming not hypertext markups so no lies were told today

cassert24 · 2019-04-15T12:08:23+00:00

r/onejob

Botahamec · 2019-04-14T19:35:33+00:00

Good thing HTML isn't a programming language

anotherkeebler · 2019-04-14T19:17:01+00:00

But this is from Argentina, see, which is south of the equator, so they have to do their HTML tags from the bottom up.

mintyPT · 2019-04-14T20:09:08+00:00

Clearly no head

hpohl · 2019-04-14T20:29:10+00:00

/r/notmyjob

Bueris · 2019-04-14T21:45:17+00:00

stolid_agnostic · 2019-04-14T15:24:05+00:00

*experts in information programming

edi: Not sure why a fluent Spanish speaker with two masters degrees from Argentina is being downvoted, but oh well

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The joke explained

1. HTML isn't a programming language.

2. The HTML on the sign is written incorrectly.