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@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ The *falsehood* articles listed below will have a comprehensive list of those fa
- [RFC-3339 vs ISO-8601](https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/) - An giant list of formats from the two standards, how they overlaps, and live examples.
- [ISO-8601, `YYYY`, `yyyy`, and why your year may be wrong](https://ericasadun.com/2018/12/25/iso-8601-yyyy-yyyy-and-why-your-year-may-be-wrong/) - String formatting of date is hard.
- [UTC is Enough for everyone, right?](https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right) - There are edge cases about dates and time (specifically UTC) that you probably haven't thought of.
- [Storing UTC is not a silver bullet](https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/) - "Just store dates in UTC" is not always the right approach.
- [Storing UTC is not a silver bullet](https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/) - “Just store dates in UTC” is not always the right approach.
- [How to choose between UT1, TAI and UTC](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047376) - Depends on your priorities between SI seconds, earth rotation sync, leap seconds avoidance.
- [Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479/57311) - Infamous Stack Overflow answer about both complicated historical timezones, and how historical dates can be re-interpreted by newer versions of software.
- [Critical and Significant Dates](https://web.archive.org/web/20150908004245/http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm) - From Y2K to the overflow of 32-bit seconds from Unix epoch, a list of special date to watch for depending on the system.
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## Education
- [Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/cs-falsehoods.html) - A list of things (not only) computer science students tend to erroneously and at times surprisingly believe even though they (probably) should know better.
- [Postdoc myths](https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/blog/2019/12/02/) - `Lots of things are said, written and believed about postdoctoral researchers that are simply not true.`.
- [Postdoc myths](https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/blog/2019/12/02/) - “Lots of things are said, written and believed about postdoctoral researchers that are simply not true.”
## Emails
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- [Myths about CPU Caches](https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/) - Misconceptions about caches often lead to false assertions, especially when it comes to concurrency and race conditions.
- [Myths about `/dev/urandom`](https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom) - There are a few things about `/dev/urandom` and `/dev/random` that are repeated again and again. Still they are false.
- [Facts about State Machines](https://github.com/cpressey/Facts-about-State-Machines) - State machines are often misunderstood and under-applied.
- [Hi! My name is…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk) - This talk could have been named "falsehoods about usernames (and other identifiers)".
- [Hi! My name is…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk) - This talk could have been named *falsehoods about usernames (and other identifiers)*.
- [Popular misconceptions about `mtime`](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113) - Part of a post on why file's `mtime` comparison could be considered harmful.
- [Rules for Autocomplete](http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2019_03_19_rules_for_autocomplete.html) - Not falsehoods *per se*, but still a great list of good practices to implement autocompletion.
- [Floating Point Math](https://0.30000000000000004.com) - "Your language isn't broken, it's doing floating point math. (…) This is why, more often than not, `0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3`."
- [Floating Point Math](https://0.30000000000000004.com) - “Your language isn't broken, it's doing floating point math. (…) This is why, more often than not, `0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3`.”
- [The Hidden Complexity of Downloading Favicons, Told in 15+ Edge Cases](https://www.simplecto.com/complexity-downloading-favicons-told-in-15-plus-edge-cases/) - Downloading that little icon you see in you browser tabs should be a simple exercise. It turned out to be a lot more complicated than you think. Be vigilant that you are not shaving a Yak.
- [Norway is not False](https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisjrn/status/1232016100038266880) - Norway's ISO country code is also valid YAML for False.
- [I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems](https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1534301374166474752) - There are edge-cases even in tagging systems which are suposed to be barebone.