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		joshvm on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simple software things that are actually very comp... There are plenty of variations on this, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Falsehoods programmers believe about names yet: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... (as someone with a long, double barreled surname this is relatable) The common thread is usually what assumptions you can make about your use case, when are they valid and when do they fail?

raphlinus on May 23, 2022 [–]

I think of "text rendering hates you"[1] as the classic "falsehoods" analog about text.

[1]: https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

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