From aa1264219758bc6535f4a1387cd1e5e7926a9a08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Deldycke Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:04:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [autofix] Format Markdown --- readme.md | 330 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+), 231 deletions(-) diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index 51001e0..39fa336 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -13,18 +13,14 @@ — Ludwig Wittgenstein[1]

-*Falsehood* articles are a form of commentary on a particular subject, and are -appreciated by the developer community at large for their effectiveness and -terseness. They're a convenient written form to approach an unfamiliar domain -by dispelling myths, point out common pitfalls, show inconsistencies and -subtleties. +*Falsehood* articles are a form of commentary on a particular subject, and are appreciated by the developer community at large for their effectiveness and terseness. They're a convenient written form to approach an unfamiliar domain by dispelling myths, point out common pitfalls, show inconsistencies and subtleties. -In a sense, *Falsehood* articles are a suite of wordy unit-tests covering -extensive edge-cases provided by real-world usage. +In a sense, *Falsehood* articles are a suite of wordy unit-tests covering extensive edge-cases provided by real-world usage. ## Contents + - [Meta](#meta) @@ -50,298 +46,170 @@ extensive edge-cases provided by real-world usage. ## Meta -- [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. +- [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 -- [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. +- [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 -- [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. -- [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 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. +- [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. - [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. - [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 `\"> LTD`, but also `; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD`, `BETTS & TWINE LTD` and `SAFDASD & SFSAF \' SFDAASF\" LTD`. -- [CLDR currency definitions](http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-31/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L81) - 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. +- [CLDR currency definitions](http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-31/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L81) - 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 -- [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. -- [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. -- [The Long, Painful History of Time](http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html) - Most -of the idiosyncrasies in time keeping can find an explanation in history. -- [You Advocate a Calendar Reform](https://qntm.org/calendar) - Your idea will -not work. This article tells you why. +- [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. +- [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. +- [The Long, Painful History of Time](http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html) - Most of the idiosyncrasies in time keeping can find an explanation in history. +- [You Advocate a Calendar Reform](https://qntm.org/calendar) - Your idea will not work. This article tells you why. - [Falsehoods programmers believe 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. -- [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. -- [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. -- [Storing UTC is not a silver bullet](https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/) - "Just -store dates in UTC" is not always the right approach. -- [Falsehoods about Unix Time](https://alexwlchan.net/2019/05/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time/) - Mind -the leap second! -- [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. +- [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. +- [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. +- [Storing UTC is not a silver bullet](https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/) - "Just store dates in UTC" is not always the right approach. +- [Falsehoods about Unix Time](https://alexwlchan.net/2019/05/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time/) - Mind the leap second\! +- [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 -- [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. +- [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 -- [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. +- [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. ## Geography -- [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. +- [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 practitionners oin 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 -- [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 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. -- [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. -- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Families](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/03/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-families/) - You -can't really define a family with strict rules. -- [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. -- [Falsehoods About Me](https://skylarmacdonald.com/falsehoods/) - Issues at -the intersection of names and gender and internationalization. +- [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 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. +- [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. +- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Families](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/03/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-families/) - You can't really define a family with strict rules. +- [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. +- [Falsehoods About Me](https://skylarmacdonald.com/falsehoods/) - Issues at the intersection of names and gender and internationalization. ## Internationalization On character encoding, string formatting, unicode and internationalization. -- [Falsehoods About Language](http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-language) - Translating -a software from English is not as straightforward as it seems to be. -- [Internationalis(z)ing Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY) - A -video about things you need to keep in mind when internationalizing your -code. -- [Minimum to Know About Unicode and Character Sets](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/) - A -good introduction to unicode, its historical context and origins, followed by -an overview of its inner working. -- [Awesome Unicode](https://github.com/Wisdom/Awesome-Unicode) - A curated list -of delightful Unicode tidbits, packages and resources. -- [Dark corners of Unicode](https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/) - Unicode -is extensive, here be dragons. -- [Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points](https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points/) - Dives -deeper in Unicode and dispels myths about code points. -- [Breaking Our `Latin-1` Assumptions](https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-latin-1-assumptions/) - Most -programmers spend so much time with `Latin-1` they forgets about other's scripts -quirks. -- [Ode to a shipping label](http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg) - Character -encoding is hard, more so when each broken layer of data input adds its own -spice. -- [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. +- [Falsehoods About Language](http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-language) - Translating a software from English is not as straightforward as it seems to be. +- [Internationalis(z)ing Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY) - A video about things you need to keep in mind when internationalizing your code. +- [Minimum to Know About Unicode and Character Sets](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/) - A good introduction to unicode, its historical context and origins, followed by an overview of its inner working. +- [Awesome Unicode](https://github.com/Wisdom/Awesome-Unicode) - A curated list of delightful Unicode tidbits, packages and resources. +- [Dark corners of Unicode](https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/) - Unicode is extensive, here be dragons. +- [Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points](https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points/) - Dives deeper in Unicode and dispels myths about code points. +- [Breaking Our `Latin-1` Assumptions](https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-latin-1-assumptions/) - Most programmers spend so much time with `Latin-1` they forgets about other's scripts quirks. +- [Ode to a shipping label](http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg) - Character encoding is hard, more so when each broken layer of data input adds its own spice. +- [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 -- [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. +- [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 -- [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. +- [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 -- [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. -- [`hostname-validate`](https://github.com/jakeogh/hostname-validate) - An -attempt to validate hostnames in Python. +- [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. +- [`hostname-validate`](https://github.com/jakeogh/hostname-validate) - An attempt to validate hostnames in Python. ## Phone Numbers -- [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). +- [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). ## Postal Addresses -- [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. -- [Letter Delivered Despite No Name, No Address](https://twitter.com/loriskumo/status/735851511331356672) - Ultimate -falsehood about postal addresses: you do not need one. -- [The Bear with Its Own ZIP Code](https://kottke.org/19/08/the-bear-with-its-own-zip-code) - Smokey -Bear has his own ZIP Code (`20252`) because he gets so much mail. -- [Regex and Postal Addresses](https://smartystreets.com/articles/regular-expressions-for-street-addresses) - Why -regular expressions and street addresses do not mix. +- [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. +- [Letter Delivered Despite No Name, No Address](https://twitter.com/loriskumo/status/735851511331356672) - Ultimate falsehood about postal addresses: you do not need one. +- [The Bear with Its Own ZIP Code](https://kottke.org/19/08/the-bear-with-its-own-zip-code) - Smokey Bear has his own ZIP Code (`20252`) because he gets so much mail. +- [Regex and Postal Addresses](https://smartystreets.com/articles/regular-expressions-for-street-addresses) - Why regular expressions and street addresses do not mix. - [Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV](https://www.dampfkraft.com/posuto.html) - “I saw many horrors, but I've never seen this particular formatting choice anywhere else.” -- [`libaddressinput`](https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput) - Google's -common C++ and Java library for parsing, formatting, and validating -international postal addresses. -- [`addressing`](https://github.com/commerceguys/addressing) - A PHP 5.4+ -addressing library, powered by Google's dataset. -- [`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. +- [`libaddressinput`](https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput) - Google's common C++ and Java library for parsing, formatting, and validating international postal addresses. +- [`addressing`](https://github.com/commerceguys/addressing) - A PHP 5.4+ addressing library, powered by Google's dataset. +- [`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 -- [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. +- [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 -- [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. +- [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 -- [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. -- [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. -- [Falsehoods About REST APIs](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://meta-package-manager.readthedocs.io/en/develop/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. -- [Popular misconceptions about `mtime`](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113) - Part -of a post on why file's `mtime` comparison could be considered harmful. -- [Falsehoods About Pagination](https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2018/12/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-pagination.html) - Why -your pagination algorithm is giving someone (possibly you) a headache. -- [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`." -- [Falsehoods About Search](https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2019/05/29/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-search/) - Why -search (including analysis, tokenization, highlighting) is deceptively complex. -- [Hi! My name is…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk) - This talk -could have been named "falsehoods about usernames (and other identifiers)". -- [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. -- [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. +- [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. +- [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. +- [Falsehoods About REST APIs](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://meta-package-manager.readthedocs.io/en/develop/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. +- [Popular misconceptions about `mtime`](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113) - Part of a post on why file's `mtime` comparison could be considered harmful. +- [Falsehoods About Pagination](https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2018/12/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-pagination.html) - Why your pagination algorithm is giving someone (possibly you) a headache. +- [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`." +- [Falsehoods About Search](https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2019/05/29/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-search/) - Why search (including analysis, tokenization, highlighting) is deceptively complex. +- [Hi\! My name is…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk) - This talk could have been named "falsehoods about usernames (and other identifiers)". +- [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. +- [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. - [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 -- [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). +- [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). ## 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. +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 -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). +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). -[1]: [*Notebooks, 1914-1916*, page 14e](https://archive.org/details/notebooks191419100witt/page/n35) (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1961). [\[↑\]](#intro-quote-ref) + +\[1\]: [*Notebooks, 1914-1916*, page 14e](https://archive.org/details/notebooks191419100witt/page/n35) (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1961). [\[↑\]](#intro-quote-ref)