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I understand the author's intentions, yet it's funny how he himself makes discriminatory assumptions: > We’re a decade on from “Falsehoods Programmers Believe

I understand the author's intentions, yet it's funny how he himself makes discriminatory assumptions: > We’re a decade on from “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names“ What if the programmer is 20 years old? EDIT & Clarification: People here assume the person should have read HN and should have read the article in question. I know quite a few programmers who don't know what HN is. And what if the programmer doesn't speak English well enough to feel comfortable reading stuff in English?

bumbledraven 5y ago
patio11 published “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names” ~10 years ago. That doesn’t depend on how old you are. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
edent 5y ago
While it may be possible that the designers for a large telco are all tweenagers - I think that's unlikely. And, most of the young people I know have far more empathy and a broader outlook than many "industry veterans".
JasonFruit 5y ago
Then ideally their education should have been based on modern assumptions about which people they could expect to be dealing with.
ryukafalz 5y ago
You never come across posts from 10 years ago? I regularly happen across articles that I would not have been old enough to meaningfully use when they were first posted. The internet is a wonderful thing. That one in particular has shown up several times on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Falsehoods%20Programmers%20Believe%20About%20Names&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Falsehoods%20Programmers%20Bel...
hibbelig 5y ago
The Peano axioms are much older. We teach them in school. Let's hope that those falsehoods will also be taught in school. (In a different school, of course -- where people learn software development.)

bumbledraven 5y ago

patio11 published “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names” ~10 years ago. That doesn’t depend on how old you are. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

edent 5y ago

While it may be possible that the designers for a large telco are all tweenagers - I think that's unlikely. And, most of the young people I know have far more empathy and a broader outlook than many "industry veterans".

JasonFruit 5y ago

Then ideally their education should have been based on modern assumptions about which people they could expect to be dealing with.

ryukafalz 5y ago

You never come across posts from 10 years ago? I regularly happen across articles that I would not have been old enough to meaningfully use when they were first posted. The internet is a wonderful thing. That one in particular has shown up several times on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Falsehoods%20Programmers%20Believe%20About%20Names&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Falsehoods%20Programmers%20Bel...

hibbelig 5y ago

The Peano axioms are much older. We teach them in school. Let's hope that those falsehoods will also be taught in school. (In a different school, of course -- where people learn software development.)