https://github.com/jameslk/awesome-falsehoods

A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe.
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A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jameslk/awesome-falsehoods
• Owner: jameslk
• Created: 2016-03-20T02:47:34.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-03-20T15:52:23.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-22T14:32:02.404Z (22 days ago)
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Awesome Falsehoods

A curated list of awesome articles about falsehoods programmers make about things which are simply untrue.

## Time

[Falsehoods programmers believe about time](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time)

[More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition](http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time)

[Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones](http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/01/28/falsehoods-programmers-date-time-zones.html)

## Names

[Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names](http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/)

## Phone Numbers

[Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md)

## Addresses

[Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses](https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/)

## Geography

[Falsehoods programmers believe about geography](http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187)

[Falsehoods programmers believe about maps](http://www.atlefren.net/post/2014/09/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-maps/)

## Gender

[Falsehoods Programmers believe about Gender](https://medium.com/gender-2-0/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-gender-f9a3512b4c9c#.wanm4lsrn)

## Tech

[Falsehoods programmers believe about networks](http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/06/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html)

[Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems](http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html)

## Contribution

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to make any suggestions via creating an issue or opening a pull request. The ideal article would also include explanations of *why* the particular falsehoods are not true and give suggestions for what to do instead.

## License

[![CC0](http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

This list is released into the public domain.