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# Awesome Falsehood [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
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A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe in.
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> The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
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> - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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## Contents
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- [Foreword](#foreword)
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- [Meta](#meta)
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- [Business](#business)
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- [Dates and Time](#dates-and-time)
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- [Emails](#emails)
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- [Geography](#geography)
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- [Human Identity](#human-identity)
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- [Multimedia](#multimedia)
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- [Networks](#networks)
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- [Phone Numbers](#phone-numbers)
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- [Postal Addresses](#postal-addresses)
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- [Software Engineering](#software-engineering)
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- [Contributing](#contributing)
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- [Good Candidates](#good-candidates)
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- [*Falsehood* Articles](#falsehood-articles)
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- [Libraries](#libraries)
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- [Data Structures](#data-structures)
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- [License](#license)
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## Foreword
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*Falsehood* articles are a form of commentary on a particular subject, and are
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appreciated by the developer community at large for their effectiveness and
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terseness. They're a convenient written form to approach an unfamiliar domain
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by dispelling myths, point out common pitfalls, show inconsistencies and
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subtleties.
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In a sense, *Falsehood* articles are a suite of wordy unit-tests covering
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extensive edge-cases provided by real-world usage.
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## Meta
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- [Falsehoods Programmers
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Believe](http://spaceninja.com/2015/12/08/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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## Business
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- [Falsehoods About Online
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Shopping](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=22201) - Covers prices,
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currencies and inventory.
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- [Falsehoods About
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Prices](https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585) - Covers currencies, amounts and
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localization.
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- [Falsehoods About
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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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- [`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
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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
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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
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Zones](http://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
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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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- [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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- [The Long, Painful History of Time](http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html) - Most
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of the idiosyncracies in time keeping can find an explanation in history.
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- [You Advocate a Calendar Reform](https://qntm.org/calendar) - Your idea will
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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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## Emails
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- [I Knew How to Validate an Email Address Until I Read the
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RFC](http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx/) -
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Provides intricates examples that are unsuspected valid emails according the
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RFC-822.
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## Geography
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- [Falsehood About
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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
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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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## Human Identity
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- [Falsehoods About
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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
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Gender](https://gist.github.com/garbados/f82604ea639e0e47bf44) - Gender is part
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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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- [XKCD #327: Exploits of a
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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
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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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- [HL7 v3
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RIM](http://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
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`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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## Multimedia
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- [Falsehoods About
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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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## Networks
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- [Falsehoods About
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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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## Phone Numbers
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- [Falsehoods About Phone
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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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- [`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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[C#](https://github.com/erezak/libphonenumber-csharp),
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[Objective-C](https://github.com/iziz/libPhoneNumber-iOS),
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[Python](https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers),
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[Ruby](https://github.com/sstephenson/global_phone) and
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[PHP](https://github.com/giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php).
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## Postal Addresses
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- [Falsehoods About
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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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- [Letter Delivered Despite No Name, No
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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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- [`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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- [`addressing`](https://github.com/commerceguys/addressing) - A PHP 5.4+
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addressing library, powered by Google's dataset.
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- [`postal-address`](https://github.com/scaleway/postal-address) - Python
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module to parse, normalize and render postal addresses.
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## Software Engineering
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- [Falsehoods About
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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.
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- [Falsehoods About Build
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Systems](http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html) - Building software is
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hard. Building software that builds software is harder.
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- [Myths About File
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Paths](https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-file-paths/) -
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Diversity of file-systems and OSes makes file paths a little harder than we
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might think of.
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- [Big List of Naughty
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Strings](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings) - Challenge
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your assumptions about strings.
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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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## Contributing
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Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the [contribution
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guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) first.
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## Good Candidates
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Here is a non-restrictive list of items which are good candidates for inclusion
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in this awesome list.
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### *Falsehood* Articles
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Articles following the *falsehood* scheme are prime candidates for inclusion in
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this awesome list.
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These articles starts with the hypothesis that developers have a naive, simple
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view of the subject at hand. Then proceed to list a set of candid assumptions
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that might be held by such programmers. Each one is intentionally false, and
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sometimes illustrated by a counter-example.
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A list of falsehood is crafted as a progression that is designed to refine
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concepts. Having read the whole list of falsehood, the reader should possess a
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global, if not complete, overview of the domain being targeted by the article,
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including most, if not all, its pitfalls, edges-cases and inconsistencies.
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In the worst case, these articles might provoke an emotional reaction and cause
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flipping table. `(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻`
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### Libraries
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When possible, we provide a list of programming libraries or modules that may
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solve, or try to, the complexities and idiosyncrasies pointed by the
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*falsehood* articles above.
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So we can put back tables in place. `┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)`
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### Data Structures
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Data models and structures generic enough to cover and address most of the
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falsehoods are also welcome in this page.
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## License
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[](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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Content of this repository is licensed under the [Creative Commons CC0
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license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
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To the extent possible under law, [Kevin Deldycke](http://kevin.deldycke.com)
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has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
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