{"id":11890,"date":"2015-07-31T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11890"},"modified":"2019-05-16T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:39:37","slug":"falsehoods-programmers-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/31\/falsehoods-programmers-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Falsehoods Programmers Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of links via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codinghorror.com\/doing-terrible-things-to-your-code\/\">Jeff Atwood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalzumeus.com\/2010\/06\/17\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names\/\">Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infiniteundo.com\/post\/25326999628\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time\">Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infiniteundo.com\/post\/25509354022\/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time\">More Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiesmann.codiferes.net\/wordpress\/?p=15187&amp;lang=en\">Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Geography<\/a> [Update (2017-07-31): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14891185\">Hacker News<\/a>.]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mjt.me.uk\/posts\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses\/\">Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Addresses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cscyphers.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-gender\/\">Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Gender<\/a> [Update (2018-07-28): Here&rsquo;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151031134251\/http:\/\/www.cscyphers.com:80\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-gender\/\">archived<\/a> version of the page.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-26): <a href=\"http:\/\/yourcalendricalfallacyis.com\/\">Dave DeLong<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/yourcalendricalfallacyis.com\/\">\n<p>Your calendrical fallacy is thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2019-05-16): <a href=\"https:\/\/alexwlchan.net\/2019\/05\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time\/\">Alex Chan<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=19922062\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/alexwlchan.net\/2019\/05\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time\/\">\n<p>These three facts all seem eminently sensible and reasonable, right?<\/p> <ol> <li> Unix time is the number of seconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC<\/li> <li> If I wait exactly one second, Unix time advances by exactly one second<\/li> <li> Unix time can never go backwards<\/li> <\/ol> <p>False, false, false.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&rsquo;s an archived version of the page.] Update (2018-07-26): 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