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I’ve seen something similar to this, but about “Names”. One was the assumption that most people have a First, Middle, and Last Name. Some cultures have more or
by cdolan 6y ago
I’ve seen something similar to this, but about “Names”. One was the assumption that most people have a First, Middle, and Last Name. Some cultures have more or fewer names for an individual.
I think a Github repo or YouTube Playlist of “Falsehoods Programers Believe About______” would be very entertaining and informative.
Does such a resource exist?
- ericpauley 6y agohttps://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
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- Mountain_Skies 6y agoTime to make names linked lists instead of arrays. Mostly kidding but not entirely.
- kayodelycaon 6y agoOr it can just be a single string of arbitrary length.
- couchand 6y agoThis is the only right answer. If you feel yourself starting to slice up your name field, ask, "what am I going to do with the parts?" 90% of the time the answer is to also record a nickname.
- jeroen 6y agoNames: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... As far as I know, that was the first one.
- kbenson 6y ago> I’ve seen something similar to this, but about “Names”. I believe that's the Ur "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About" article. Sort of like Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" is the progenitor of all the following "Considered Harmful" titles.
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- peterburkimsher 6y agoAlso check out Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time. This gave a good laugh to me (programmer) and my colleague (tester), writing software for GPS vehicle tracking! https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...