A collection of resources about falsehoods programmers believe to know.
Things that look simple at a first glance might have a hidden complexity under the hood:
- When you grew up in a western country, you might expect that every person's name is made up of a first and a last name.
- A programmer from the US might assume that each country is divided into states, and therefore an address must contain a state name to be valid.
- Developers from Central Europa might neglect time zones, because they never experienced time zone differences when traveling into a neighboring country.
- Math teaches us that
0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3, but is that true in computer languages?
This is a list about articles that are worth reading when you are a software engineer, or you just wonder about the hidden complexity developers have to deal with.
You might want to start reading: Doing Terrible Things To Your Code
- Why flags do not represent languages
- Why is there no standardised way to select a country from a list in HTML
- Falsehoods programmers believe about prices and currencies
- Programming
- Build Systems
- Distributed Computing
- Floating-Point Arithmetic
- Networks
- Shutdown Hooks
- Unicode
- Versions
- Hardware, Network, Programming
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-list-item) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add a new list item') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-list-item) - Create new Pull Request.
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