GitHub - kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood: 😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in

There are still websites that don't believe that my email address is real. Let's find a way to fix this.

It’s about time I joined the cottage industry of falsehood articles.

Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.)

Selection effects in media become increasingly strong as populations and media increase, meaning that rare datapoints driven by unusual processes such as the mentally ill or hoaxers are increasingly unreliable as evidence of anything at all and must be ignored. At scale, anything that can happen will happen a small but nonzero times.

There are an infinite number of integers. How many do you use in your thinking and planning?

While I understand the critiques coming from many of my peers for any "AI" project, I want to…

<blockquote> <p>There’s just so much stuff out there, and I kinda wanna get back to some of it.</p> </blockquote>

Things we want to believe that just aren’t true

Recently, I had a conversation with a junior developer on my team. Let’s call him Alan. We were talking about a new notification feature that was going to be used to send reminder e-mails to potentially thousands of people if they had forgotten to enter certain data in the last month or so. Alan was confident that the code he’d written was correct. “I’ve tested it well.”, he said…

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This was my second stop at my magic Fall, my Fall conference season. I had the amazing opportunity to speak at DevConf in Krakow, Poland. A nice conference in an amazing cinema; What means: having …

A conceptual model for thinking about time in programming that encapsulates the complexity that many programmers cite online