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@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ The *falsehood* articles listed below will have a comprehensive list of those fa
- [Science](#science)
- [Society](#society)
- [Software Engineering](#software-engineering)
- [Transportation](#transportation)
- [Typography](#typography)
- [Video Games](#video-games)
- [Web](#web)
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- [Falsehoods about Prices](https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585) - Covers currencies, amounts and localization.
- [Falsehoods about IBANs](https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/blob/master/docs/FALSEHOODS.md) - International Bank Account Numbers are not international.
- [Falsehoods about Economics](http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/09/22/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-economics/) - Economics are not simple or rational.
- [Falsehoods about Cars](https://github.com/driveto/falsehoods-about-cars) - Even something as common as defining a car is full of pitfalls.
- [Falsehoods about Airline Seat Maps](https://duffel.com/blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps) - Airline seat maps are far more complex than just neat rows and columns of seats.
- [Decimal Point Error in Etsy's Accounting System](https://www.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/hz4877/if_you_are_an_etsy_seller_do_not_purchase_postage/) - The importance of types in accounting software: missing the decimal point ends up with 100x over-charges.
- [Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money](http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/02/25k/) - Same error as above at Google Ads, or the danger of separating your pennies from your dollars, were $250 internal coupons turned into $25,000. My advice: [get rid of integers and floats for monetary values. Use decimals. Or fallback to strings and parse them, don't validate.](https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/1599113889093890049)
- [Characters `<` and `>` in company names lead to XSS attacks](https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-software-attack/3355) - Because [UK allows companies to be registered with special characters](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/17/schedule/1/made), a hacker leveraged them to register `\"><SCRIPT SRC=MJT.XSS.HT></SCRIPT> LTD`, but also `; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD`, `BETTS &AMP; TWINE LTD` and `SAFDASD & SFSAF \' SFDAASF\" LTD`.
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- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
@ -164,7 +163,6 @@ On character encoding, string formatting, unicode and internationalization.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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
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- [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.
- [Falsehoods about Undefined Behavior](https://predr.ag/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-undefined-behavior/) - Invoking undefined behavior can cause *anything* to happen, for a much broader definition of "anything" than one might think.
- [Falsehoods about REST APIs](https://web.archive.org/web/20201112010147/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://kdeldycke.github.io/meta-package-manager/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.
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- [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.
- [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.
## Transportation
- [Falsehoods about Cars](https://github.com/driveto/falsehoods-about-cars) - Even something as common as defining a car is full of pitfalls.
- [Falsehoods about Airline Seat Maps](https://duffel.com/blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps) - Airline seat maps are far more complex than just neat rows and columns of seats.
- [The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfOUVYQnuhw) - Having multiple international and national agencies trying to reconcile history, practicality and logistics makes codes follow arcane rules.
- [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.
## Typography
- [Falsehoods about Fonts](https://github.com/RoelN/Font-Falsehoods) - Assumptions about typography on the web and in desktop applications.
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- [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.
## Web
- [Falsehoods about REST APIs](https://web.archive.org/web/20201112010147/http://slinkp.com/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-apis.html) - Pitfalls to be mindful of when creating and documenting APIs.
- [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.
- [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.
## Contributing
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.