Someone should do a logic blogpost - “Falsehoods programmers believe about false...

KingMob · 2025-06-07T06:10:32 1749276632

Here's a falsehood list about falsehood lists:

1. I'll never need to learn a falsehood list, so I can skip it.

2. A falsehood list is complete at the time of writing.

3. OK, but it will surely get updated with new falsehoods and clarifications.

4. Skimming the falsehood list is all I need to do to learn it.

5. OK, but surely I'll remember to recheck the falsehood list once I actually need to, right?

6. If a falsehood doesn't immediately make sense to me, there must be something wrong with it, despite the author having domain expertise that I don't.

Literally had to point out just last night how UTC is not sufficient in all scenarios. I swear it happens every 6 mos on Reddit.

Scarblac · 2025-06-07T09:06:55 1749287215

7. These lists are meant to be for entertainment only

kdeldycke · 2025-06-07T10:51:04 1749293464

I did: https://github.com/kdeldycke/kevin-deldycke-blog/blob/main/c...

account42 · 2025-06-10T09:47:18 1749548838

Falsehoods programmers believe about other programmers' beliefs.

Dylan16807 · 2025-06-07T04:36:24 1749270984

Why? What would go on it?

From that dead comment quoting a chat bot that clearly did not understand the question at all, I think maybe we can extract a single bullet point:

* “Edge cases” live only at the edges; they never creep into the middle.

But that's not much to build a post with.

mcdeltat · 2025-06-07T04:09:14 1749269354

"Falsehoods "falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods" blog posters believe about "falsehoods programmers believe about "falsehoods programmers believe about logic" blog" falsehoods"