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"falsehoods programmers believe" articles considered harmful.
by acheron 3y ago
"falsehoods programmers believe" articles considered harmful.
- sdflhasjd 3y ago"Falsehoods blog writers believe about programmers." Never fond of these articles myself either. One I read was "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" and part of the reason they annoy me the assumption that programmers create these requirements in the first place. Like... I believe that all users are simply identified by a GUID, it's someone else that wanted your first name, family name, pet name or whatever. This one seems particularly weak though, the biggest timezone mistakes are usually made by users. We had a recent one where all the scheduling got fugged up because someone was changing the timezones to account for daylight savings. One of those things where I can laugh with my fellow programmers... "users, am i right XD", while secretly wondering how to improve the timezone selector UI.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoFor fun and profit!
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoFalsehoods programmers believe about “falsehoods programmers believe” articles