Falsehood
143 items from kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood ★27,768
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Decimal Point Error in Etsy's Accounting System web.archive.org
The importance of types in accounting software: missing the decimal point ends up with 100x over-charges.
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The Hidden Complexity of Downloading Favicons, Told in 15+ Edge Cases web.archive.org
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.
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What every software engineer should know about search web.archive.org
A better sourced article on the difficulty of implementing search engines.
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Top 5 most insane kanji place names in Japan web.archive.org
“There's one special group of kanji that's hard even for Japanese people to read: place names.”
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Falsehoods about REST APIs web.archive.org
Pitfalls to be mindful of when creating and documenting APIs.
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ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong web.archive.org
String formatting of date is hard.
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Gay Marriage: The Database Engineering Perspective web.archive.org
How to store a marriage in a database while addressing most of the falsehoods about gender, naming and relationships.
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Falsehoods about Job Applicants web.archive.org
Assumptions about job applicants and their job histories aren't necessarily true.
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Critical and Significant Dates web.archive.org
From Y2K to the overflow of 32-bit seconds from Unix epoch, a list of special date to watch for depending on the system.
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Personal Names Around the World w3.org
How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications for the Web?
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Falsehoods about Residence twitter.com
It's not only about the address itself, but the relationship between a person and its residence.
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Falsehoods about Political Appointments twitter.com
Designing election systems has its own tricks.
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Minutiae of company names twitter.com
How the rules of the State of Delaware and the IRS does not intersects.
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I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems twitter.com
There are edge-cases even in tagging systems which are supposed to be barebone.
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Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already threadreaderapp.com
Reads like a list of falsehoods about the tech business: “There is no hidden reserve of smart people who know what they're doing, anywhere. Not in government, not in science, not in tech, (…) nowhere.”
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Falsehoods about Systems of Measurement stevemoser.org
On working with systems of measurement and converting between them.
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe spaceninja.com
A brief list of common falsehoods. A great overview and quick introduction into the world of falsehoods.
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Myths about CPU Caches software.rajivprab.com
Misconceptions about caches often lead to false assertions, especially when it comes to concurrency and race conditions.
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Regex and Postal Addresses smartystreets.com
Why regular expressions and street addresses do not mix.
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Falsehoods about Me skylarmacdonald.com
Issues at the intersection of names and gender and internationalization.
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Falsehoods about Weather shkspr.mobi
Weather is location-dependent, and so full of edge-cases.
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Falsehoods about Biometrics shkspr.mobi
Fingerprints are not unique.
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Falsehoods about Families shkspr.mobi
You can't really define a family with strict rules.
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Falsehoods about Names – With Examples shinesolutions.com
A revisited version of the article above, this time with detailed explanations.
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The yaml document from hell ruudvanasseldonk.com
YAML is full of obscure complexity like accidental numbers and non-string keys.
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Localization Failure: Temperature is Hard randomascii.wordpress.com
You cannot localize temperature differences as-is.
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You Advocate a Calendar Reform qntm.org
Your idea will not work. This article tells you why.
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So You Want to Abolish Time Zones qntm.org
Abolishing timezones may sound like a good idea, but there are quite a few complications that make it not quite so.
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Falsehoods about null pointers purplesyringa.moe
Null pointers are even more cursed than pointers in general, and provenance already makes pointers quite complicated.
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Falsehoods about Undefined Behavior predr.ag
Invoking undefined behavior can cause anything to happen, for a much broader definition of "anything" than one might think.
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Falsehoods about Build Systems pozorvlak.livejournal.com
Building software is hard. Building software that builds software is harder.
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USPS Postal Addressing Standards pe.usps.com
Describes both standardized address formats and content.
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UK Address Oddities paulplowman.com
Quirks extracted from a list of most residential property sales in England and Wales since 1995.
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Falsehoods about garbage collection paul.bone.id.au
Misconceptions about the predictability and performance of garbage collection.
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Falsehoods about Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) pardalotus.tech
False conceptions about the identifiers that are used to identify and link research outputs (and a lot of other things).
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Falsehoods about Search opensourceconnections.com
Why search (including analysis, tokenization, highlighting) is deceptively complex.
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The Soul of a New Machine openlibrary.org
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How to choose between UT1, TAI and UTC news.ycombinator.com
Depends on your priorities between SI seconds, earth rotation sync, leap seconds avoidance.
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URLs: It's complicated… netmeister.org
There's a lot of components in an URL, and all have their own logic.
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Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong netmeister.org
A summary of the various, surprising things that are allowed in an email address.
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Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating netmeister.org
A list of things (not only) computer science students tend to erroneously and at times surprisingly believe even though they (probably) should know better.
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The Long, Painful History of Time naggum.no
Most of the idiosyncrasies in timekeeping can find an explanation in history.
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MusicBrainz database schema musicbrainz.org
An open-source project and database that seems to have solved the complexity of music catalog management.
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Falsehoods about Addresses mjt.me.uk
Covers streets, postal codes, buildings, cities and countries.
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Falsehoods about CVE medium.com
CVE ≠ vulnerability (and 36 other confusions).
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Breaking Our Latin-1 Assumptions manishearth.github.io
Most programmers spend so much time with Latin-1 they forgets about other's scripts quirks.
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Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points manishearth.github.io
Dives deeper in Unicode and dispels myths about code points.
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There's more than one way to write an IP address ma.ttias.be
Some parts of the address are optional, mind the decimal and octal notations, and don't forget IPv6 either.
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The Door Problem lizengland.com
All the things you have not considered implementing for your doors in games.
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Falsehoods about Music literateprogrammer.blogspot.fr
False assumption that might be made in codifying music.
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