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Falsehoods About IBANs - International Bank Account Numbers are not immune to mistakes.

In the linked article I cannot find the claim that IBANs are not immune to mistakes. The closes I found was that IBANs don't help in "find the source of an input problem".

Hello, I wrote a tool that can validate README links. It can be run when someone submits a pull request or a commit is pushed to awesome-falsehood.

For example, you would see that

https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html redirects to
http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html

Which may not be interesting, but you could also see if a link was broken

This tool is currently being used by

• https://github.com/matteocrippa/awesome-swift
• https://github.com/brabadu/awesome-fonts
• and many more

Examples

• https://travis-ci.org/matteocrippa/awesome-swift/builds/96526196 ok ✅
• https://travis-ci.org/matteocrippa/awesome-swift/builds/96722421 link redirected / rename 🔴
• https://travis-ci.org/dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps/builds/96763135 bad link / project deleted 🔴
• https://travis-ci.org/dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps/builds/95754715 dupe 🔴

If you are interested, connect this repo to https://travis-ci.org/ and add a .travis.yml file to the project (you can also use Circle CI or other CI services).

See https://github.com/dkhamsing/awesome_bot for options, more information
Feel free to leave a comment 😄

I believe this would fit well in the Internationalization section. I'm the author, but this is my first and only attempt at promoting it. It doesn't seem to have gotten much attention so far.

https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html#main

Falsehoods about Plain Text - Writing systems around the world and why it's surprising Unicode works as well as it does.

URL of the article or project

https://www.aartaka.me.eu.org/falsehoods-html

Motivation

HTML is the basis for all the web, including the interfaces we're communicating with in this issue. But it's still surrounded with some misconceptions worth refuting. So here's one with falsehoods about HTML.

I'm opening an issue because there seems to be no obvious category for this link in the README. I trust you judgement on where it belongs.

Affiliation

• I am the author of the article or project
• I am working for/with the company which is publishing the article or project
• I'm just a rando who stumbled upon this via social networks

Self checks

• I have read the Code of Conduct

• I applied all rules from the Contributing guide

• I have checked there is no other Issues or Pull Requests covering the same topic to open

I wrote an article that I think is a good candidate for inclusion (inspired by this repo and an episode of >Code): http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-language/

I'm not sure if it would need a new section or if someone wants to make a case for it fitting into one of the existing sections. Wanted to get guidance on that before I made a PR.

The article Gay Marriage: The Database Engineering Perspective at https://qntm.org/gay has become unavailable. The author is rewriting the article and has taken down the previous version.

An archived version is available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20170914014648/https://qntm.org/gay

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About "Women In Tech" seems incredibly combative and toxic. It's also not really factual and doesn't fit in with the other examples that are really related to programming falsehoods, like how to validate emails. It's more like an angry agenda piece.

Same for "Falsehoods about Gender". This seems like a political agenda piece that is not related to programming.

Why not keep this list strictly related to things that are actually about programming and not controversial? Like i18n or build systems, etc. It's distracting from the rest of the list, and takes away credibility.

This would fit nicely with the date & time falsehoods: http://davedelong.tumblr.com/post/140216824433/intercalation

Maybe these should be turned into a proper list first, so you can link to that, but there's some good fodder for a new "falsehoods" list here: https://twitter.com/edent/status/846270908138426369 (via @jaredsinclair)

Obviously this is a loaded issue and not for the faint hearted. But if you want to see how the falsehoods get propagated just look for some of the subreddits that are getting quarantined in 2018.

But the truth will be discovered one way or another.

Preliminary checks

• I have read the Code of Conduct
• I applied all rules from the Contributing guide
• I have checked there is not other Issues or Pull Requests covering the same topic to open

Summary

While the domain remains live, it appears the hosting platform, WebFaction, was shut off as of September 15.

Preliminary checks

• I have read the Code of Conduct
• I applied all rules from the Contributing guide
• I have checked there is not other Issues or Pull Requests covering the same topic to open

Summary

Explain the motivation for making this change. What does does this bring to the table?

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search is a great article and it should be add to the list. Somehow I couldn't submit a pull request :\

This would make the repository more future-proof than just having a list of links to other sites that eventually go offline.

Preliminary checks

• I have read the Code of Conduct
• I applied all rules from the Contributing guide
• I have checked there is not other Issues or Pull Requests covering the same topic to open

Summary

Benchmarks are notorious for being hard to get right, with mistakes and oversights on so many levels, and should be a prime candidate for a Falsehoods list.

Sorry for not bringing any links, this is a bit of a drive-by idea. Google gives more results for "myths" and "pitfalls" but they're mostly blog post, I couldn't find any decently sized lists on the first page.

Summary

Errors per input

Errors in readme.md

• [TIMEOUT] http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/02/25k/ | Timeout
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May want to add this: https://github.com/patch/i18n-testing/blob/master/personal-names.tsv

A programmer made the surprising assumption that every month has exactly 30 days. The State of Vermont overcharged businesses based on this assumption. I'm not sure where to best document this assumption about dates and time, so I'm adding it here as an issue for now.

Rounding Error In Computer Code Leads To $26,000 Overcollection By Labor Department

Preliminary checks

• I have read the Code of Conduct
• I applied all rules from the Contributing guide
• I have checked there is not other Issues or Pull Requests covering the same topic to open

Summary

Human Identity

Falsehood: People's names are more than one letter long

This is an article for the evidence:

https://www.lematin.ch/story/la-vie-n-est-pas-simple-quand-on-s-appelle-o-663259215523

I translate the appropriate excerpt:

Le nouveau secrétaire d'État Cédric O, note BFMTV, ne peut par exemple pas se réserver un vol à bord d'Air France en ligne: il faut deux caractères pour s'inscrire. Idem pour la SNCF. Lui vient d'être nommé. Mais pour d'autres madame ou monsieur M, X ou O français, impossible aussi… de s'inscrire à Pôle emploi!

The new secretary of state Cédric O, according to BFMTV, cannot book a flight with Air France as a name with at least two characters is required to register. Same with [train trips on] SNCF. He has just been nominated, but others French Miss or Mr M, X, or O cannot enrol as job seekers!

I don't have the ability to contribute in a meaningful way. I'd still love to see something regarding videogames since it would be a good resource for new developers.

http://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com is a new site listing common fallacies about calendars and their refutations.

Weather is different in different places!

1) Not everywhere has a sunrise/sunset:

http://web.archive.org/web/https://twitter.com/AustinJ/status/1144655793612107778

2) December != Winter and August != Summer

Seasons aren't the same everywhere. Too many times, I've had a friend from the Southern Hemisphere complain about getting a little snowman animation in their weather applet or on the Google homepage during December, when it's the middle of a blazing Summer for them.

3) Temperature doesn't mean the same everywhere:

What might be "Mildly sunny" in one part of the world might be dangerous to those who live in a country without air-con in the slightest, legislated double-glazed/vacuum-insulated windows, brick-walls and with people who are not used to wearing sun-cream or how to prevent heatstroke.

URL of the article or project

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/26/lebanon-awakes-to-two-times-of-day-amid-daylight-savings-dispute

Motivation

Seems there are places with more than one time zone in operation at the same, err, time.

Affiliation

• I am the author of the article or project
• I am working for/with the company which is publishing the article or project
• I'm just a rando who stumbled upon this via social networks

Self checks

• I have read the Code of Conduct

• I applied all rules from the Contributing guide

• I have checked there is no other Issues or Pull Requests covering the same topic to open

I'm not sure how to put this but:

If you give birth to twins right around the time daylight savings kicks in you can end up with the first born twin being (according to records) younger than the second born twin.

http://people.com/human-interest/second-born-twin-is-actually-older-than-brother-thanks-to-daylight-savings-time-twist/

Maybe we need a set of falsehoods programmers believe about birth records (like assuming they exist...) and other forms of government records (in past times hospitals have burnt down, taking all the paper records of births with them, leaving a number of people in a difficult state to prove that they exist officially).

Summary

Errors per input

Errors in readme.md

• [526] https://skylarmacdonald.com/falsehoods/ | Failed: Network error: Unknown status code
• [ERR] https://chiselapp.com/user/ttmrichter/repository/gng/doc/trunk/output/falsehoods.html | Failed: Network error: error:0A000086:SSL routines:tls_post_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:ssl/statem/statem_clnt.c:2092: (unable to get local issuer certificate)
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https://github.com/globalcitizen/php-iban/blob/master/docs/FALSEHOODS.md

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points/

It's not structured as a "falsehoods" article but it's talking about a major one that's a pain when folks who use a language with a script other than Latin try to use software.

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-latin-1-assumptions/ is another similar one, structured more like a falsehoods article.

I'd like to discuss the inclusion of this article.

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/