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- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Good Candidates](#good-candidates)
- [*Falsehood* Articles](#falsehood-articles)
- [Libraries](#libraries)
- [Data Structures](#data-structures)
- [*Falsehood* Articles](#falsehood-articles)
- [Libraries](#libraries)
- [Data Structures](#data-structures)
- [License](#license)
@@ -51,15 +51,12 @@ extensive edge-cases provided by real-world usage.
## Meta
- [Falsehoods Programmers
Believe](https://spaceninja.com/2015/12/07/falsehoods-programmers-believe/) - A
- [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) -
- [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/) -
- [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.
@@ -74,23 +71,17 @@ Common misconceptions about art.
## Business
- [Falsehoods About Online
Shopping](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=22201) - Covers prices,
- [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
- [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) -
- [Falsehoods About IBANs](https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/blob/master/docs/FALSEHOODS.md) -
International Bank Account Numbers are not immune to mistakes.
- [Falsehoods About
Economics](http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/09/22/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-economics/) -
- [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) -
- [Falsehoods About Cars](https://github.com/driveto/falsehoods-about-cars) -
Even something as common as defining a car is full of pitfalls.
- [CLDR currency
definitions](http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-31/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L81) -
- [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
@@ -99,17 +90,13 @@ library.
## Dates and Time
- [Falsehoods About
Time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-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) -
- [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) -
- [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
- [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) -
@@ -128,16 +115,14 @@ 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) -
- [$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/) -
- [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..
- [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 StackOverflow answer about both complicated historical timezones, and how historical dates can be re-interpreted by newer versions of software.
- [Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479/57311) - Infamous StackOverflow answer about both complicated historical timezones, and how historical dates can be re-interpreted by newer versions of software.
## Education
@@ -147,8 +132,7 @@ String formatting of date is hard.
## 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/) -
- [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/) -
@@ -157,21 +141,17 @@ Presentation of edge-case email addresses and why you should not use regex to pa
## Geography
- [Falsehoods About
Geography](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187) - Takes on places,
- [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/) -
- [Falsehoods About Maps](http://www.atlefren.net/post/2014/09/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-maps/) -
Covers coordinates, projection and GIS.
## Human Identity
- [Falsehoods About
Names](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/) -
- [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/) -
- [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) -
@@ -179,26 +159,20 @@ Gender is part of human identity and has its own subtleties.
- [Gay Marriage: The Database Engineering Perspective](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/) -
- [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
- [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
- [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
- [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) -
- [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) -
- [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 internationalisation.
@@ -206,8 +180,7 @@ intersection of names and gender and internationalisation.
## Internationalization
- [Falsehoods About
Language](http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-language) -
- [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.
- [i18n Testing Data](https://github.com/patch/i18n-testing) - Real-word
@@ -221,27 +194,23 @@ code.
## Management
- [Falsehoods About Job
Applicants](https://web.archive.org/web/20170114022820/https://medium.com/@creatrixtiara/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-job-applicants-99280437c616) -
- [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) -
- [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) -
- [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) -
- [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.
@@ -249,8 +218,7 @@ Assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.
## Phone Numbers
- [Falsehoods About Phone
Numbers](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md) -
- [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
@@ -264,19 +232,15 @@ international phone numbers. Also available for
## Postal Addresses
- [Falsehoods About
Addresses](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-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) -
- [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
- [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) -
- [Regex and Postal Addresses](https://smartystreets.com/articles/regular-expressions-for-street-addresses) -
Why regular expressions and street addresses do not mix.
- [`libaddressinput`](https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput) - Google's
common C++ and Java library for parsing, formatting, and validating
@@ -291,61 +255,49 @@ 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) -
- [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) -
- [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
- [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) -
- [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
- [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/) -
- [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) -
- [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) -
- [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) -
- [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) -
- [Falsehoods About Testing](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/falsehoods-testers-believe/1371) -
An attempt to establish a list of falsehoods about testing.
- [Big List of Naughty
Strings](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings) - Challenge
- [Big List of Naughty Strings](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings) - Challenge
your assumptions about strings.
- [Popular misconceptions about mtime](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113) - Part
of a post on why file mtime comparison could be considered harmful.
- [Falsehoods About
Pagination](https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2018/12/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-pagination.html) -
- [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) -
- [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.
- [9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0](http://geocar.sdf1.org/numbers.html) - A
kind of falsehood on numbers, and floats vs decimals.
- [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 in usernames (and other identifiers).
- [Hi! My name is…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk) - This talk could have been named falsehoods about in 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.
@@ -355,13 +307,12 @@ complex.
- [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 falshoods format, on the topic of case (as in uppercase and lowercase text).
the falshoods 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](CONTRIBUTING.md) first.
Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) first.
## Good Candidates
@@ -408,8 +359,7 @@ falsehoods are also welcome in this page.
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