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64 lines
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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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## Motivation
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TODO: explain why this list is aweseome.
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## Contents
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- [Dates and times](#dates-and-times)
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- [Emails](#emails)
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- [Geography](#geography)
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- [Human names](#human-names)
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- [Phone numbers](#phone-numbers)
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- [Prices](#prices)
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- [Postal addresses](#postal-addresses)
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## Dates and times
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- [Falsehoods programmers believe about time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time)
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## Emails
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- [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/)
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## Geography
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- [Falsehoods programmers believe about geography](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en)
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## Human names
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- [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/)
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- [XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom](https://xkcd.com/327/)
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- [HL7 V3 RIM](http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=186): a flexible data model for representing human names.
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- [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.
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## Phone numbers
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- [`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).
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## Prices
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- [Falsehoods programmers believe about prices](https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585)
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## Postal addresses
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- [Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/)
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## Lisense
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Content of this repository is licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause License
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](LICENSE.md).
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