# Awesome Falsehood [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe in.


## Motivation

TODO: explain why this list is aweseome.


## Contents

- [Dates and times](#dates-and-times)
- [Emails](#emails)
- [Geography](#geography)
- [Human names](#human-names)
- [Phone numbers](#phone-numbers)
- [Prices](#prices)
- [Postal addresses](#postal-addresses)


## Dates and times

- [Falsehoods programmers believe about time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time).


## Emails

- [I Knew How To Validate An Email Address Until I Read The RFC](http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx/).


## Geography

- [Falsehoods programmers believe about geography](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en).


## Human names

- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/).
- [XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom](https://xkcd.com/327/).
- [HL7 V3 RIM](http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=186): a flexible data model for representing human names.
- [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.


## Phone numbers

- [`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/erezak/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).


## Prices

- [Falsehoods programmers believe about prices](https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585).


## Postal addresses

- [Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/)


## Lisense

Content of this repository is licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause License
](LICENSE.md).