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- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe](https://spaceninja.com/2015/12/07/falsehoods-programmers-believe/) - A
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brief list of common falsehoods. A great overview and quick introduction into
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the world of falsehoods.
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- [Falsehoods About Programming](https://chiselapp.com/user/ttmrichter/repository/gng/doc/trunk/output/falsehoods.html) -
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A humbling and fun list on programming and programmers themselves.
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- [Falsehoods About Falsehoods Lists](https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-falsehoods-lists/) -
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Meta commentary on how these falsehoods shouldn't be handled.
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- [Falsehoods About Programming](https://chiselapp.com/user/ttmrichter/repository/gng/doc/trunk/output/falsehoods.html) - A
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humbling and fun list on programming and programmers themselves.
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- [Falsehoods About Falsehoods Lists](https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-falsehoods-lists/) - Meta
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commentary on how these falsehoods shouldn't be handled.
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## Arts
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- [Falsehoods About
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Music](https://literateprogrammer.blogspot.fr/2016/07/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html) -
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False assumption that might be made in codifying music.
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- [Falsehoods About Art](http://artsy.github.io/blog/2018/04/18/programmer-misconceptions-about-art/) –
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Common misconceptions about art.
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- [Falsehoods About Music](https://literateprogrammer.blogspot.fr/2016/07/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html) - False
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assumption that might be made in codifying music.
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- [Falsehoods About Art](http://artsy.github.io/blog/2018/04/18/programmer-misconceptions-about-art/) – Common
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misconceptions about art.
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## Business
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- [Falsehoods About Online Shopping](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=22201) - Covers prices,
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currencies and inventory.
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- [Falsehoods About Prices](https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585) - Covers currencies, amounts and
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localization.
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- [Falsehoods About IBANs](https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/blob/master/docs/FALSEHOODS.md) -
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International Bank Account Numbers are not immune to mistakes.
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- [Falsehoods About Economics](http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/09/22/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-economics/) -
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Economics are not simple or rational.
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- [Falsehoods About Cars](https://github.com/driveto/falsehoods-about-cars) -
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Even something as common as defining a car is full of pitfalls.
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- [CLDR currency definitions](http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-31/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L81) -
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Currency validity date ranges overlap due to revolts, invasions, new
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constitutions, and slow planned adoption.
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- [Falsehoods About Online Shopping](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=22201) - Covers
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prices, currencies and inventory.
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- [Falsehoods About Prices](https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585) - Covers
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currencies, amounts and localization.
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- [Falsehoods About IBANs](https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/blob/master/docs/FALSEHOODS.md) - International
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Bank Account Numbers are not immune to mistakes.
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- [Falsehoods About Economics](http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/09/22/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-economics/) - Economics
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are not simple or rational.
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- [Falsehoods About Cars](https://github.com/driveto/falsehoods-about-cars) - Even
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something as common as defining a car is full of pitfalls.
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- [CLDR currency definitions](http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-31/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L81) - Currency
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validity date ranges overlap due to revolts, invasions, new constitutions, and
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slow planned adoption.
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- [`tax`](https://github.com/commerceguys/tax) - A PHP 5.4+ tax management
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library.
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## Dates and Time
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- [Falsehoods About Time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time) -
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Seminal article on dates and time.
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- [More Falsehoods About Time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time) -
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Part. 2 of the article above.
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- [Falsehoods About Time and Time Zones](https://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/01/28/falsehoods-programmers-date-time-zones.html) -
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Another takes on time-related falsehoods, with an emphasis on time zones.
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- [Critique of Falsehoods About Time](https://gist.github.com/thanatos/eee17100476a336a711e) - Takes on the
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first article above and provides an explanation of each falsehood, with more
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context and external resources.
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- [Your Calendrical Fallacy Is Thinking…](http://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com) -
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List covering intercalation and cultural influence, made by a community of iOS
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and macOS developers.
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- [Falsehoods About Time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time) - Seminal
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article on dates and time.
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- [More Falsehoods About Time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time) - Part.
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2 of the article above.
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- [Falsehoods About Time and Time Zones](https://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/01/28/falsehoods-programmers-date-time-zones.html) - Another
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takes on time-related falsehoods, with an emphasis on time zones.
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- [Critique of Falsehoods About Time](https://gist.github.com/thanatos/eee17100476a336a711e) - Takes
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on the first article above and provides an explanation of each falsehood, with
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more context and external resources.
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- [Your Calendrical Fallacy Is Thinking…](http://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com) - List
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covering intercalation and cultural influence, made by a community of iOS and
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macOS developers.
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- [Time Zone Database](https://www.iana.org/time-zones) - Code and data that
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represent the history of local time for many representative locations around
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the globe.
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@ -112,114 +111,122 @@ not work. This article tells you why.
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- [So You Want to Abolish Time Zones](https://qntm.org/abolish) – Abolishing
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timezones may sound like a good idea, but there are quite a few complications
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that make it not quite so.
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- [The Problem with Time & Timezones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY) -
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A video about why you should never, ever deal with timezones if you can help
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it.
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- [$26,000 Overcollection by Labor Department](http://digital.vpr.net/post/rounding-error-computer-code-leads-26000-overcollection-labor-department) -
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The consequence of wrong calendar accounting.
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- [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/) -
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String formatting of date is hard.
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- [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.
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- [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.
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- [Falsehoods about Unix Time](https://alexwlchan.net/2019/05/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time/) - Mind the leap second!
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- [Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479/57311) - Infamous StackOverflow answer about both complicated historical timezones, and how historical dates can be re-interpreted by newer versions of software.
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- [The Problem with Time & Timezones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY) - A
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video about why you should never, ever deal with timezones if you can help it.
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- [$26,000 Overcollection by Labor Department](http://digital.vpr.net/post/rounding-error-computer-code-leads-26000-overcollection-labor-department) - The
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consequence of wrong calendar accounting.
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- [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
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formatting of date is hard.
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- [UTC is Enough for everyone, right?](https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right) - There
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are edge cases about dates and time (specifically UTC) that you probably
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haven't thought of.
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- [Storing UTC is not a silver bullet](https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/) - "Just
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store dates in UTC" is not always the right approach.
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- [Falsehoods about Unix Time](https://alexwlchan.net/2019/05/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time/) - Mind
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the leap second!
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- [Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479/57311) - Infamous
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Stack Overflow answer about both complicated historical timezones, and how
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historical dates can be re-interpreted by newer versions of software.
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## Education
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- [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.
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- [Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/cs-falsehoods.html) - A
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list of things (not only) computer science students tend to erroneously and at
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times surprisingly believe even though they (probably) should know better.
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## Emails
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- [I Knew How to Validate an Email Address Until I Read the RFC](https://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx/) -
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Provides intricate examples that are unsuspected valid email addresses
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according the RFC-822.
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- [So you think you can validate email addresses (FOSDEM 2018)](https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/email_address_quiz/) -
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Presentation of edge-case email addresses and why you should not use regex to parse them.
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- [I Knew How to Validate an Email Address Until I Read the RFC](https://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx/) - Provides
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intricate examples that are unsuspected valid email addresses according the
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RFC-822.
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- [So you think you can validate email addresses (FOSDEM 2018)](https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/email_address_quiz/) - Presentation
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of edge-case email addresses and why you should not use regex to parse them.
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## Geography
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- [Falsehoods About Geography](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187) - Takes on places,
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their names and locations.
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- [Falsehoods About Maps](http://www.atlefren.net/post/2014/09/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-maps/) -
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Covers coordinates, projection and GIS.
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- [Falsehoods About Geography](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187) - Takes
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on places, their names and locations.
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- [Falsehoods About Maps](http://www.atlefren.net/post/2014/09/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-maps/) - Covers
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coordinates, projection and GIS.
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## Human Identity
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- [Falsehoods About Names](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/) -
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The article that started it all.
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- [Falsehoods About Names – With Examples](https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/) -
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A revisited version of the article above, this time with detailed explanations.
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- Falsehoods About Gender: [#1](https://gist.github.com/garbados/f82604ea639e0e47bf44) &
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[#2](https://medium.com/gender-2-0/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-gender-f9a3512b4c9c) -
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Gender is part of human identity and has its own subtleties.
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- [Gay Marriage: The Database Engineering Perspective](https://qntm.org/gay) -
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How to store a marriage in a database while addressing most of the falsehoods
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about gender, naming and relationships.
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- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Families](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/03/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-families/) -
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You can't really define a family with strict rules.
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- [Personal Names Around the World](https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names) - How do
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people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications for the
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Web?
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- [XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom](https://xkcd.com/327/) - Funny take on how implementation of a falsehood
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might lead to security holes.
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- [Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/) - Real-life example on how
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implemented falsehood has negative impact on someone's life.
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- [My name causes an issue with any booking!](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-causes-an-issue-with-any-booking-names-end-with-mr-and-mrs) -
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Old airline reservation systems considers the `MR` suffix as `Mister` and drops it.
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- [HL7 v3 RIM](https://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=186) -
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A flexible data model for representing human names.
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- [Apple iOS `NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter`](https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter_Class/index.html) -
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Localized representations of the components of a person’s name.
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- [Falsehoods About Me](https://skylarmacdonald.com/falsehoods/) - Issues at the
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intersection of names and gender and internationalisation.
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- [Falsehoods About Names](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/) - The
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article that started it all.
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- [Falsehoods About Names – With Examples](https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/) - A
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- revisited version of the article above, this time with detailed explanations.
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- Falsehoods About Gender: [#1](https://gist.github.com/garbados/f82604ea639e0e47bf44) & [#2](https://medium.com/gender-2-0/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-gender-f9a3512b4c9c) - Gender
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is part of human identity and has its own subtleties.
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- [Gay Marriage: The Database Engineering Perspective](https://qntm.org/gay) - How
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to store a marriage in a database while addressing most of the falsehoods about
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gender, naming and relationships.
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- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Families](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/03/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-families/) - You
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can't really define a family with strict rules.
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- [Personal Names Around the World](https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names) - How
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do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications for
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the Web?
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- [XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom](https://xkcd.com/327/) - Funny take on how
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implementation of a falsehood might lead to security holes.
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- [Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/) - Real-life
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example on how implemented falsehood has negative impact on someone’s life.
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- [My name causes an issue with any booking!](https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-causes-an-issue-with-any-booking-names-end-with-mr-and-mrs) - Old
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airline reservation systems considers the `MR` suffix as `Mister` and drops it.
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- [HL7 v3 RIM](https://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=186) - A
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flexible data model for representing human names.
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- [Apple iOS `NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter`](https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter_Class/index.html) - Localized
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representations of the components of a person’s name.
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- [Falsehoods About Me](https://skylarmacdonald.com/falsehoods/) - Issues at
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the intersection of names and gender and internationalisation.
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## Internationalization
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- [Falsehoods About Language](http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-language) -
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Translating a software from English is not as straightforward as it seems to
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be.
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- [Falsehoods About Language](http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-language) - Translating
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a software from English is not as straightforward as it seems to be.
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- [i18n Testing Data](https://github.com/patch/i18n-testing) - Real-word
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international and diverse name data for unit testing and QA.
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- [Internationalis(z)ing Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY) -
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A video about things you need to keep in mind when internationalizing your
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code.
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- [Minimum to Know About Unicode and Character Sets](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/) - Character encoding doesn't have to be baffling, but it helps to have a basic set of knowledge
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- [Ode to a shipping label](http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg) - Character encoding is hard.
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- [Internationalis(z)ing Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY) - A
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video about things you need to keep in mind when internationalizing your code.
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- [Minimum to Know About Unicode and Character Sets](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/) - Character
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encoding doesn't have to be baffling, but it helps to have a basic set of knowledge
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- [Ode to a shipping label](http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg) - Character
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encoding is hard.
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## Management
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- [Falsehoods About Job Applicants](https://web.archive.org/web/20170114022820/https://medium.com/@creatrixtiara/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-job-applicants-99280437c616) -
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Assumptions about job applicants and their job histories aren’t necessarily
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true.
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- [Falsehoods About Job Applicants](https://web.archive.org/web/20170114022820/https://medium.com/@creatrixtiara/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-job-applicants-99280437c616) - Assumptions
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about job applicants and their job histories aren’t necessarily true.
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## Multimedia
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- [Falsehoods About Video](https://haasn.xyz/posts/2016-12-25-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-%5Bvideo-stuff%5D.html) -
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Cover it all: video decoding and playback, files, image scaling, color spaces
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and conversion, displays and subtitles.
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- [Falsehoods About Video](https://haasn.xyz/posts/2016-12-25-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-%5Bvideo-stuff%5D.html) - Cover
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it all: video decoding and playback, files, image scaling, color spaces and
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conversion, displays and subtitles.
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## Networks
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- [Falsehoods About Networks](http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/06/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html) -
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Covers TCP, DHCP, DNS, VLANs and IPv4/v6.
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- [Fallacies of Distributed Computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing) -
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Assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.
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- [There’s more than one way to write an IP address](https://ma.ttias.be/theres-more-than-one-way-to-write-an-ip-address/) - Some parts of the address are optional, mind the decimal and octal notations, and [don't forget IPv6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390981) either.
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- [`hostname-validate`](https://github.com/jakeogh/hostname-validate) - An attempt to validate hostnames in Python.
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- [Falsehoods About Networks](http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/06/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html) - Covers
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TCP, DHCP, DNS, VLANs and IPv4/v6.
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- [Fallacies of Distributed Computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing) - Assumptions
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that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.
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- [There’s more than one way to write an IP address](https://ma.ttias.be/theres-more-than-one-way-to-write-an-ip-address/) - Some
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parts of the address are optional, mind the decimal and octal notations,
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and [don't forget IPv6](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390981) either.
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- [`hostname-validate`](https://github.com/jakeogh/hostname-validate) - An
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attempt to validate hostnames in Python.
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## Phone Numbers
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- [Falsehoods About Phone Numbers](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md) -
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Covers phone numbers, their representation and meaning.
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- [Falsehoods About Phone Numbers](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md) - Covers
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phone numbers, their representation and meaning.
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- [`libphonenumber`](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber) - Google's
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common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating
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international phone numbers. Also available for
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@ -232,16 +239,16 @@ international phone numbers. Also available for
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## Postal Addresses
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- [Falsehoods About Addresses](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/) -
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Covers streets, postal codes, buildings, cities and countries.
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- [Falsehoods About Residence](https://twitter.com/samphippen/status/813896916534784004) -
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It's not only about the address itself, but the relationship between a person and its residence.
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- [Falsehoods About Addresses](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/) - Covers
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streets, postal codes, buildings, cities and countries.
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- [Falsehoods About Residence](https://twitter.com/samphippen/status/813896916534784004) - It's
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not only about the address itself, but the relationship between a person and its residence.
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- [Letter Delivered Despite No Name, No Address](https://twitter.com/loriskumo/status/735851511331356672) - Ultimate
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falsehood about postal addresses: you do not need one.
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- [The Bear with Its Own ZIP Code](https://kottke.org/19/08/the-bear-with-its-own-zip-code) -
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Smokey Bear has his own ZIP Code (`20252`) because he gets so much mail.
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- [Regex and Postal Addresses](https://smartystreets.com/articles/regular-expressions-for-street-addresses) -
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Why regular expressions and street addresses do not mix.
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- [The Bear with Its Own ZIP Code](https://kottke.org/19/08/the-bear-with-its-own-zip-code) - Smokey
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Bear has his own ZIP Code (`20252`) because he gets so much mail.
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- [Regex and Postal Addresses](https://smartystreets.com/articles/regular-expressions-for-street-addresses) - Why
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regular expressions and street addresses do not mix.
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- [`libaddressinput`](https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput) - Google's
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common C++ and Java library for parsing, formatting, and validating
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international postal addresses.
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@ -255,64 +262,71 @@ and format addresses using Google's dataset.
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## Science
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- [Falsehoods About Systems of Measurement](https://www.stevemoser.org/posts/dev/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-systems-of-measurement.html) -
|
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On working with systems of measurement and converting between them.
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- [Falsehoods About Systems of Measurement](https://www.stevemoser.org/posts/dev/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-systems-of-measurement.html) - On
|
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working with systems of measurement and converting between them.
|
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## Society
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- [Falsehoods About Political Appointments](https://twitter.com/oliver_dw/status/737930439575404544) -
|
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Designing election systems has its own tricks.
|
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- [Falsehoods About Women In Tech](https://gist.github.com/Su-Shee/5d1a417fa9de19c15477) - Myth about women
|
||||
in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) industries.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Political Appointments](https://twitter.com/oliver_dw/status/737930439575404544) - Designing
|
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election systems has its own tricks.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Women In Tech](https://gist.github.com/Su-Shee/5d1a417fa9de19c15477) - Myth
|
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about women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) industries.
|
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|
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|
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## Software Engineering
|
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|
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- [Falsehoods About Versions](https://github.com/xenoterracide/falsehoods/blob/master/versions.md) -
|
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Attributing an identity to a software release might be harder than thought.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Build Systems](https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html) - Building software is
|
||||
hard. Building software that builds software is harder.
|
||||
- [Myths About File Paths](https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-file-paths/) -
|
||||
Diversity of file-systems and OSes makes file paths a little harder than we
|
||||
might think of.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About REST APIs](http://slinkp.com/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-apis.html) -
|
||||
Pitfalls to be mindful of when creating and documenting APIs.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About CSVs](https://donatstudios.com/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe-About-CSVs) -
|
||||
While RFC4180 to exists, it is far from definitive and goes largely ignored.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Package Managers](https://meta-package-manager.readthedocs.io/en/develop/falsehoods.html) -
|
||||
Covers package and their managers.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Testing](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/falsehoods-testers-believe/1371) -
|
||||
An attempt to establish a list of falsehoods about testing.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Versions](https://github.com/xenoterracide/falsehoods/blob/master/versions.md) - Attributing
|
||||
an identity to a software release might be harder than thought.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Build Systems](https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html) - Building
|
||||
software is hard. Building software that builds software is harder.
|
||||
- [Myths About File Paths](https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-file-paths/) - Diversity
|
||||
of file-systems and OSes makes file paths a little harder than we might think
|
||||
of.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About REST APIs](http://slinkp.com/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-apis.html) - Pitfalls
|
||||
to be mindful of when creating and documenting APIs.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About CSVs](https://donatstudios.com/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe-About-CSVs) - While
|
||||
RFC4180 to exists, it is far from definitive and goes largely ignored.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Package Managers](https://meta-package-manager.readthedocs.io/en/develop/falsehoods.html) - Covers
|
||||
package and their managers.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Testing](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/falsehoods-testers-believe/1371) - An
|
||||
attempt to establish a list of falsehoods about testing.
|
||||
- [Big List of Naughty Strings](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings) - Challenge
|
||||
your assumptions about strings.
|
||||
- [Popular misconceptions about mtime](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113) - Part
|
||||
of a post on why file mtime comparison could be considered harmful.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Pagination](https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2018/12/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-pagination.html) -
|
||||
Why your pagination algorithm is giving someone (possibly you) a headache.
|
||||
- [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.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Pagination](https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2018/12/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-pagination.html) - Why
|
||||
your pagination algorithm is giving someone (possibly you) a headache.
|
||||
- [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.
|
||||
- [9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0](http://geocar.sdf1.org/numbers.html) - A
|
||||
kind of falsehood on numbers, and floats vs decimals.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Search](https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2019/05/29/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-search/) -
|
||||
Why search (including analysis, tokenization, highlighting) is deceptively
|
||||
complex.
|
||||
- [Hi! My name is…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk) - This talk could have been named falsehoods about in usernames (and other identifiers).
|
||||
- [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.
|
||||
- [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.
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Search](https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2019/05/29/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-search/) - Why
|
||||
search (including analysis, tokenization, highlighting) is deceptively complex.
|
||||
- [Hi! My name is…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk) - This talk
|
||||
could have been named falsehoods about in usernames (and other identifiers).
|
||||
- [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.
|
||||
- [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.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
## Typography
|
||||
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Fonts](https://github.com/RoelN/Font-Falsehoods) -
|
||||
Assumptions about typography on the web and in desktop applications.
|
||||
- [Truths programmers should know about case](https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/nov/26/case/) - A complete reverse of
|
||||
the falshoods format, on the topic of case (as in uppercase and lowercase text).
|
||||
- [Falsehoods About Fonts](https://github.com/RoelN/Font-Falsehoods) - Assumptions
|
||||
about typography on the web and in desktop applications.
|
||||
- [Truths programmers should know about case](https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/nov/26/case/) - A
|
||||
complete reverse of the falshoods format, on the topic of case (as in uppercase
|
||||
and lowercase text).
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
## Contributing
|
||||
|
||||
Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) first.
|
||||
Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the
|
||||
[contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) first.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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