Awesome Falsehood

A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe in.

Motivation

TODO: explain why this list is aweseome.

Contents

• Dates and times
• Emails
• Gender
• Geography
• Human names
• Networks
• 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.

Gender

• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Gender

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.

Networks

• Falsehoods programmers believe about networks

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.
• addressing: A PHP 5.4+ addressing library, powered by Google's dataset.
• postal-address: Python module to parse, normalize and render postal addresses.

Lisense

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