I think there is quite a bit of value in the "falsehoods programmers believe . . ." trope just in the sense that they can be a shock to you. A quick reminder th

I think there is quite a bit of value in the "falsehoods programmers believe . . ." trope just in the sense that they can be a shock to you. A quick reminder that something topic you haven't had much programming experience with is way more complicated than you ever thought it was. They are a great jumping off point. On the other hand, I've met people who read one of those and just stopped there and concocted some absolutely bizarro ways of "handling" the issue by coming up with patterns that attempt to simply avoid everything in the list. I really do like this approach and think that it's great to have the jumping off point and some deep exploration all in one place. Most of us who are going to get the positive effect from "falsehoods . . ." memes probably already have, and we could do with a break from those and more articles like this one.