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awesome-falsehood: A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in (github.com)
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I saw this one a while ago but still check it when I'm doing something that seems trivial but probably has many edge-cases.

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[โ€“] honeyontoast@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I have one to add:

Programmers believe languages have a flag.

I used to work on a system that supported multiple languages and had to fight very hard not to put a country's flag next to each language on the front end. People's responses to the "wrong" flag being used for their language ranged from slightly annoyed to extremely volatile...

[โ€“] tony@l.bxy.sh 1 points 2 years ago

I saw the one that started it all about names not long ago. This should be a suitably anxiety-inducing read of all the edge cases I had never considered. I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry... ๐Ÿ˜ญ