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A decent list for this about prices and currency https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585 and the full list of other falsehoods https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Add it onto the list of "falsehoods programmers believe in".

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Awesome Falsehood - A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

The rabbit hole on names goes deep [1]. Lots of other fun rabbit holes. [2]

For how to model physical objects like those cables, go see how Grainger does it as a working practical model.

To really handle names properly, you need more context than the name in the presentation layer that many schemas take their modeling from can obtain. Government health care or similar widely-adopted encoding is sometimes Good Enough. If you want non-lossy exactitude however, then that's a much bigger scope (I'd be investigating a first-pass classifier with contextual hints taken from various geolocations, age, etc., that implies soliciting the name comes after what you normally solicit for input, and refining from there).

Password reset; this is why vendors like Okta exist to abstract authN away for us, and auth0 for authZ. Then there is the rabbit hole of what this abstraction leads to...

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

[2] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

A collection of several falsehoods programmers believe lists, not just time:

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

This definitely needs more recognition. Same with time & date. Actually, same with all "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ".

Here is a list: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

> It makes me angry that programmers feel that they "own" the concept of time measurement

Programmers feel that they "own" pretty much every social construct, by virtue of the fact that it is their job to encode those constructs into interfaces and databases. See the famous "falsehoods programmers believe about X" [1] --- and I'm sure you'll like this one about time [2].

[1] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

[2] https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...

> I wish there was a similar list: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Human Names.

There is:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567548

* Points to: https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers...

* Which references: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Also, "A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in."

* https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Apparently programmers don't know much about anything because there are lots of falsehood lists [0].

[0] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

"Falsehoods programmers believe about headlines"

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

You might enjoy https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

And many other similar "falsehoods", collected at https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

At the same time some sites/systems impose too strict size limits which makes impossible to enter e. g. a long name or a long address. And such problems are almost inevitable if a programmer makes assumptions about input data based on a limited personal experience.

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood tries to address this.