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😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in

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Kevin Deldycke e80ad01ea9 Add postal address libraries.		2016-09-08 12:28:23 +02:00
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README.md	Add postal address libraries.	2016-09-08 12:28:23 +02:00

README.md

Awesome Falsehood

A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe in.

Motivation

TODO: explain why this list is aweseome.

Contents

Dates and times
Emails
Geography
Human names
Phone numbers
Prices
Postal addresses

Dates and times

Falsehoods programmers believe about time.

Emails

I Knew How To Validate An Email Address Until I Read The RFC.

Geography

Falsehoods programmers believe about geography.

Human names

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.
XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom.
HL7 V3 RIM: a flexible data model for representing human names.
iOS NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter: localized representations of the components of a person’s name.

Phone numbers

libphonenumber: Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. Also available for C#, Objective-C, Python, Ruby and PHP.

Prices

Falsehoods programmers believe about prices.

Postal addresses

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses.
libaddressinput: Google's common C++ and Java library for parsing, formatting, and validating international postal addresses.
postal-address: Python module to parse, normalize and render postal addresses.

Lisense

Content of this repository is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.