Falsehoods Programmers Believe
A bunch of links via Jeff Atwood:
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
- More Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Geography [Update (2017-07-31): See also: Hacker News.]
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Addresses
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Gender [Update (2018-07-28): Here’s an archived version of the page.]
Update (2018-07-26): Dave DeLong:
Your calendrical fallacy is thinking…
Update (2019-05-16): Alex Chan (via Hacker News):
These three facts all seem eminently sensible and reasonable, right?
- Unix time is the number of seconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC
- If I wait exactly one second, Unix time advances by exactly one second
- Unix time can never go backwards
False, false, false.
