Miscellaneous
17,336 items in 132 lists
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Adaptech adaptechsolutions.net
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ABP abp.io
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Aaron Stannard aaronstannard.com
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Aardling Blog aardling.eu
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Falsehoods about Time Zones zainrizvi.io
Has some nice points regarding the edge-cases of DST transitions.
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UTC is Enough for everyone, right? zachholman.com
There are edge cases about dates and time (specifically UTC) that you probably haven't thought of.
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Your Calendrical Fallacy Is Thinking… yourcalendricalfallacyis.com
List covering intercalation and cultural influence, made by a community of iOS and macOS developers.
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Myths about File Paths yakking.branchable.com
Diversity of file-systems and OSes makes file paths a little harder than we might think of.
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XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom xkcd.com
Funny take on how implementation of a falsehood might lead to security holes.
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“The system can’t handle a billion dollars” xcancel.com
Insane compensation at Meta in the middle of the AI-boom breaks ERPs.
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Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers wired.com
Real-life example on how implemented falsehood has negative impact on someone's life.
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Falsehoods about text wiesmann.codiferes.net
Practical examples illustrating Unicode normalization, ligatures, surrogate pairs, character widths, and grapheme cluster pitfalls in substring operations.
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Falsehoods about Online Shopping wiesmann.codiferes.net
Covers prices, currencies and inventory.
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Falsehoods about Geography wiesmann.codiferes.net
Takes on places, their names and locations.
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My name causes an issue with any booking! web.archive.org
Old airline reservation systems considers the MR suffix as Mister and drops it.
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Falsehoods about Maps web.archive.org
Covers coordinates, projection and GIS.
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Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money web.archive.org
Same error as above at Google Ads, or the danger of separating your pennies from your dollars, where $250 internal coupons turned into $25,000. My advice: get rid of integers and floats for monetary values. Use decimals. Or fallback to strings and parse them, don't validate.
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Falsehoods about Networks web.archive.org
Covers TCP, DHCP, DNS, VLANs and IPv4/v6.
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Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result? web.archive.org
Infamous Stack Overflow answer about both complicated historical timezones, and how historical dates can be re-interpreted by newer versions of software.
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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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