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Falsehoods programmers believe about time (2017) (infiniteundo.com)
19 points by tosh on Sept 12, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


Would be marginally useful if it listed a counterexample for each incorrect assumption, so readers could expand their knowledge of time rather than simply be told that they're wrong. I seem to remember an article very similar to this one where it did so. Does anyone know of it?


There are still programmers who believe that 02/07/2015 is an unambiguous date reference everywhere.


I was hoping for information about time, but this list is almost entirely about calendars.


Waiting for the eventual "Falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods" article.



Ha!


Here's one to add: that such headlines will make me click, rather than just grind my teeth.


Would be nice if the post included example code that showcased those assumptions and explained how the code was fixed.




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