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There are plenty of variations on this, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Falsehoods programmers believe about names yet: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17
by joshvm 4y ago
There are plenty of variations on this, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Falsehoods programmers believe about names yet:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
(as someone with a long, double barreled surname this is relatable)
The common thread is usually what assumptions you can make about your use case, when are they valid and when do they fail?
- raphlinus 4y agoI think of "text rendering hates you"[1] as the classic "falsehoods" analog about text. [1]: https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/ https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/