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* [ ] I applied all rules from the [Contributing guide](https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/blob/main/.github/contributing.md)
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- [ ] I have checked there is not other [Issues](https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/issues) or [Pull Requests](https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/pulls) covering the same topic to open
#### Summary
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Inventory occurrences of discussions of this repository in social medias.
| Date | Media | Attention |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-18 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12737142) | 2 points; 1 comment. |
| 2016-12-28 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13271541) | 4 points; 4 comments. |
| 2017-02-13 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13637102) | Font page; 255 points; 118 comments. |
| 2019-02-22 | [Reddit - `r/programming`](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/athzqf/awesomefalsehood_a_curated_list_of_falsehoods/) | 160 points; 113 comments. |
| 2019-02-21 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19215265) | 88 points; 9 comments. |
| 2020-03-25 | [Patrick McKenzie's greatest hits](https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/) | [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20200325233426/https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/) |
| 2020-09-08 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405941) | 169 points; 123 comments. |
| 2020-10-21 | [Cory Doctorow's daily links](https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/each-drop-of-strych-a-nine/#a-sort-of-runic-rhyme) | [Tweet](https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/1319587008768020480) |
| 2021-01-05 | [Proportions between GitHub stars and forks](https://gh.clickhouse.tech/explorer/#proportions-between-stars-and-forks) | Position #34 of repositories with the best stars/forks ratio (15675 / 411 = 38.14) |
| Date | Media | Attention |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2016-10-18 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12737142) | 2 points; 1 comment. |
| 2016-12-28 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13271541) | 4 points; 4 comments. |
| 2017-02-13 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13637102) | Font page; 255 points; 118 comments. |
| 2019-02-22 | [Reddit - `r/programming`](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/athzqf/awesomefalsehood_a_curated_list_of_falsehoods/) | 160 points; 113 comments. |
| 2019-02-21 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19215265) | 88 points; 9 comments. |
| 2020-03-25 | [Patrick McKenzie's greatest hits](https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/) | [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20200325233426/https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/) |
| 2020-09-08 | [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405941) | 169 points; 123 comments. |
| 2020-10-21 | [Cory Doctorow's daily links](https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/each-drop-of-strych-a-nine/#a-sort-of-runic-rhyme) | [Tweet](https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/1319587008768020480) |
| 2021-01-05 | [Proportions between GitHub stars and forks](https://gh.clickhouse.tech/explorer/#proportions-between-stars-and-forks) | Position #34 of repositories with the best stars/forks ratio (15675 / 411 = 38.14) |
## Sources
* [HN front page tracker](https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=falsehoods+programmers+believe+in&f=title).
- [HN front page tracker](https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=falsehoods+programmers+believe+in&f=title).

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The *falsehood* articles listed below will have a comprehensive list of those false-beliefs that you should be aware of, to help you become a better programmer.
## Contents
## Contents<a name="contents"></a>
<!-- mdformat-toc start --slug=github --minlevel=2 -->
<!-- mdformat-toc start --slug=github --maxlevel=6 --minlevel=2 -->
## Meta
- [Contents](#contents)
- [Meta](#meta)
- [Arts](#arts)
- [Business](#business)
- [Dates and Time](#dates-and-time)
- [Education](#education)
- [Emails](#emails)
- [Geography](#geography)
- [Human Identity](#human-identity)
- [Internationalization](#internationalization)
- [Management](#management)
- [Multimedia](#multimedia)
- [Networks](#networks)
- [Phone Numbers](#phone-numbers)
- [Postal Addresses](#postal-addresses)
- [Science](#science)
- [Society](#society)
- [Software Engineering](#software-engineering)
- [Typography](#typography)
- [Video Games](#video-games)
<!-- mdformat-toc end -->
## Meta<a name="meta"></a>
- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe](https://spaceninja.com/2015/12/07/falsehoods-programmers-believe/) - A brief list of common falsehoods. A great overview and quick introduction into the world of falsehoods.
- [Falsehoods about Programming](https://chiselapp.com/user/ttmrichter/repository/gng/doc/trunk/output/falsehoods.html) - A humbling and fun list on programming and programmers themselves.
- [Falsehoods about Falsehoods Lists](https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-falsehoods-lists/) - Meta commentary on how these falsehoods shouldn't be handled.
## Arts
## Arts<a name="arts"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Music](https://literateprogrammer.blogspot.fr/2016/07/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html) - False assumption that might be made in codifying music.
- [Falsehoods about Art](http://artsy.github.io/blog/2018/04/18/programmer-misconceptions-about-art/) - Common misconceptions about art.
## Business
## Business<a name="business"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Online Shopping](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=22201) - Covers prices, currencies and inventory.
- [Falsehoods about Prices](https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585) - Covers currencies, amounts and localization.
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- [CLDR currency definitions](https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/release-40/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L87-L94) - Currency validity date ranges overlap due to revolts, invasions, new constitutions, and slow planned adoption.
- [`tax`](https://github.com/commerceguys/tax) - A PHP 5.4+ tax management library.
## Dates and Time
## Dates and Time<a name="dates-and-time"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time) - Seminal article on dates and time.
- [More Falsehoods about Time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time) - Part. 2 of the article above.
- [Falsehoods about Time and Time Zones](https://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/01/28/falsehoods-programmers-date-time-zones.html) - Another takes on time-related falsehoods, with an emphasis on time zones.
- [Critique of Falsehoods about Time](https://gist.github.com/thanatos/eee17100476a336a711e) - Takes on the first article above and provides an explanation of each falsehood, with more context and external resources.
- [Falsehoods about Unix Time](https://alexwlchan.net/2019/05/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time/) - Mind the leap second\!
- [Falsehoods about Unix Time](https://alexwlchan.net/2019/05/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time/) - Mind the leap second!
- [Falsehoods about Time Zones](https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time-zones/) - Has some nice points regarding the edge-cases of DST transitions.
- [Your Calendrical Fallacy Is Thinking…](http://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com) - List covering intercalation and cultural influence, made by a community of iOS and macOS developers.
- [Time Zone Database](https://www.iana.org/time-zones) - Code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe.
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- [You Advocate a Calendar Reform](https://qntm.org/calendar) - Your idea will not work. This article tells you why.
- [So You Want to Abolish Time Zones](https://qntm.org/abolish) - Abolishing timezones may sound like a good idea, but there are quite a few complications that make it not quite so.
- [The Problem with Time & Timezones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY) - A video about why you should never, ever deal with timezones if you can help it.
- [$26,000 Overcollection by Labor Department](http://digital.vpr.net/post/rounding-error-computer-code-leads-26000-overcollection-labor-department) - The consequence of wrong calendar accounting.
- [\$26,000 Overcollection by Labor Department](http://digital.vpr.net/post/rounding-error-computer-code-leads-26000-overcollection-labor-department) - The consequence of wrong calendar accounting.
- [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.
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- [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.
## Education
## Education<a name="education"></a>
- [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.`.
## Emails
## Emails<a name="emails"></a>
- [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 intricate examples that are unsuspected valid email addresses according the RFC-822.
- [So you think you can validate email addresses (FOSDEM 2018)](https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/email_address_quiz/) - Presentation of edge-case email addresses and why you should not use regex to parse them.
- [Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/email.html) - A summary of the various, surprising things that are allowed in an email address.
## Geography
## Geography<a name="geography"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Geography](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187) - Takes on places, their names and locations.
- [Falsehoods about Maps](http://www.atlefren.net/post/2014/09/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-maps/) - Covers coordinates, projection and GIS.
- [I Hate Coordinate Systems](https://ihatecoordinatesystems.com) - A guide for geospatial practitioners on diagnosing and fixing common issues with coordinate systems.
- [Top 5 most insane kanji place names in Japan](https://soranews24.com/2016/12/01/w-t-f-japan-top-5-most-insane-kanji-place-names-in-japan%e3%80%90weird-top-five%e3%80%91/) - “There's one special group of kanji that's hard even for Japanese people to read: place names.”
## Human Identity
## Human Identity<a name="human-identity"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Names](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/) - The article that started it all.
- [Falsehoods about Names – With Examples](https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/) - A revisited version of the article above, this time with detailed explanations.
- [Falsehoods about Biometrics](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-biometrics/) - Fingerprints are not unique.
- [Falsehoods about Families](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/03/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-families/) - You can't really define a family with strict rules.
- Falsehoods about Gender: [\#1](https://gist.github.com/garbados/f82604ea639e0e47bf44) & [\#2](https://medium.com/gender-2-0/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-gender-f9a3512b4c9c) - Gender is part of human identity and has its own subtleties.
- Falsehoods about Gender: [#1](https://gist.github.com/garbados/f82604ea639e0e47bf44) & [#2](https://medium.com/gender-2-0/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-gender-f9a3512b4c9c) - Gender is part of human identity and has its own subtleties.
- [Falsehoods about Me](https://skylarmacdonald.com/falsehoods/) - Issues at the intersection of names and gender and internationalization.
- [Gay Marriage: The Database Engineering Perspective](https://web.archive.org/web/20170914014648/https://qntm.org/gay) - How to store a marriage in a database while addressing most of the falsehoods about gender, naming and relationships.
- [Personal Names Around the World](https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names) - How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications for the Web?
- [XKCD \#327: Exploits of a Mom](https://xkcd.com/327/) - Funny take on how implementation of a falsehood might lead to security holes.
- [XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom](https://xkcd.com/327/) - Funny take on how implementation of a falsehood might lead to security holes.
- [Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/) - Real-life example on how implemented falsehood has negative impact on someone's life.
- [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 airline reservation systems considers the `MR` suffix as `Mister` and drops it.
- [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 airline reservation systems considers the `MR` suffix as `Mister` and drops it.
- [HL7 v3 RIM](https://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=186) - A flexible data model for representing human names.
- [Apple iOS `NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter`](https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter_Class/index.html) - Localized representations of the components of a person's name.
## Internationalization
## Internationalization<a name="internationalization"></a>
On character encoding, string formatting, unicode and internationalization.
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- [i18n Testing Data](https://github.com/patch/i18n-testing) - Compilation of real-word international and diverse name data for unit testing and QA.
- [Big List of Naughty Strings](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings) - A huge corpus of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. A must have set of practical edge-cases to test your software against.
## Management
## Management<a name="management"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Job Applicants](https://web.archive.org/web/20170114022820/https://medium.com/@creatrixtiara/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-job-applicants-99280437c616) - Assumptions about job applicants and their job histories aren't necessarily true.
## Multimedia
## Multimedia<a name="multimedia"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Video](https://haasn.xyz/posts/2016-12-25-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-%5Bvideo-stuff%5D.html) - Cover it all: video decoding and playback, files, image scaling, color spaces and conversion, displays and subtitles.
## Networks
## Networks<a name="networks"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Networks](http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/06/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html) - Covers TCP, DHCP, DNS, VLANs and IPv4/v6.
- [Fallacies of Distributed Computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing) - Assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.
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- [URLs: It's complicated…](https://www.netmeister.org/blog/urls.html) - There's a lot of components in an URL, and all have their own logic.
- [`hostname-validate`](https://github.com/jakeogh/hostname-validate) - An attempt to validate hostnames in Python.
## Phone Numbers
## Phone Numbers<a name="phone-numbers"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Phone Numbers](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md) - Covers phone numbers, their representation and meaning.
- [`libphonenumber`](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber) - Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. Also available for [C\#](https://github.com/twcclegg/libphonenumber-csharp), [Objective-C](https://github.com/iziz/libPhoneNumber-iOS), [Python](https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers), [Ruby](https://github.com/sstephenson/global_phone) and [PHP](https://github.com/giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php).
- [`libphonenumber`](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber) - Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. Also available for [C#](https://github.com/twcclegg/libphonenumber-csharp), [Objective-C](https://github.com/iziz/libPhoneNumber-iOS), [Python](https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers), [Ruby](https://github.com/sstephenson/global_phone) and [PHP](https://github.com/giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php).
## Postal Addresses
## Postal Addresses<a name="postal-addresses"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Addresses](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/) - Covers streets, postal codes, buildings, cities and countries.
- [Falsehoods about Residence](https://twitter.com/samphippen/status/813896916534784004) - It's not only about the address itself, but the relationship between a person and its residence.
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- [`postal-address`](https://github.com/scaleway/postal-address) - Python module to parse, normalize and render postal addresses.
- [`address`](https://github.com/Boostport/address) - Go library to validate and format addresses using Google's dataset.
## Science
## Science<a name="science"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Systems of Measurement](https://www.stevemoser.org/posts/dev/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-systems-of-measurement.html) - On working with systems of measurement and converting between them.
## Society
## Society<a name="society"></a>
- [Falsehoods about Political Appointments](https://twitter.com/oliver_dw/status/737930439575404544) - Designing election systems has its own tricks.
- [Falsehoods about Women In Tech](https://gist.github.com/Su-Shee/5d1a417fa9de19c15477) - Myth about women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) industries.
## Software Engineering
## Software Engineering<a name="software-engineering"></a>
- [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.
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- [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.
- [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.
- [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`."
- [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.
## Typography
## Typography<a name="typography"></a>
- [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 falsehoods format, on the topic of case (as in uppercase and lowercase text).
## Video Games
## Video Games<a name="video-games"></a>
- [The Door Problem](https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/) - All the things you have not considered implementing for your doors in games.
## Contributing
## Contributing<a name="contributing"></a>
Your contributions are always welcome\! Please take a look at the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/blob/main/.github/contributing.md) first.
Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/blob/main/.github/contributing.md) first.
## Footnotes
## Footnotes<a name="footnotes"></a>
The [header image](https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/blob/main/assets/awesome-falsehood-header.jpg) is based on a modified [photo taken in February 2010 by Iza Bella](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BLW_Truth_and_Falsehood.jpg), distributed under a [Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 UK license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/deed.en).