I first heard this term in How I Met Your Mother when Ted dressed up as a hanging Chad for Halloween. I tried to look it up & Google basically just said that it was a voting ballot that people used to punch holes out of. But I feel like I’m missing something.. in the show, they would make fun of Ted for wearing an outdated costume
& would tell him that “the hanging Chad reference
Is very old” & that most people wouldn’t understand it. Which signifies some sort of inside joke or understanding, but I don’t get it. please! Thank you!
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I use ‘hanging chad’ all the time, as a way of explaining software code that is redundant but still in the code base. I also have to explain the term every time I use it (using the election explanation). It helps non-tech people remember the problem for future meetings.
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