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
• 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.

Prices

• Falsehoods programmers believe about prices

Postal addresses

• Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

Lisense

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