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> I feel like there's a "Fallacies programmers believe about text" that should exist somewhere I got you covered. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#internationalization http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe… https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-programmers-beli… https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/30296 I love how the writing gets visibly more unhinged and frustrated with each invalidated assumption. It's like the person's mind is desperately trying to find some small sliver of truth to hold onto but continuously getting the rug pulled from under them.

FWIW, Wikipedia has a list of the most common place names in the United States. "Washington" leads at 91, which means nearly two occurrences per state, though this includes variant names such as "Old Washington", "Port Washington", and "Washingtonville": <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._place_names… Other issues you might want to consider are locations with multiple names or spelling variants, say, "Ciudad de México" and "Mexico City" or Pretoria/Tshwane, various script variants, or disputed names. Or closely-paired locations, such as Minneapolis / St. Paul or Dallas / Fort Worth. Or those which have changed names (Bombay / Mumbai, Calcutta / Kolkota, Madras / Chennai). For the United States, using MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) will tend to group people by urban region, with less ambiguity and grouping of reasonably proximate locations. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a widely-used standard elsewhere. Cue: "Falsehoods programmers believe about geography" <https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/15187> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891185>

I do believe it's mentioned, either in the article or in the discussion: https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891185

Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab… Time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believ… Addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addre… Geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en

> since often they have the notion that buildings of this size "never" move I fact OP probably got this from one of these "Falsehoods programmers believe about X" (probably this one: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en). It's always interesting how even the most basic assumptions contain caveats.

Also: Falsehoods programmers believe about time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believ… More falsehoods programmers believe about time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-b… Falsehoods programmers believe about geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187 Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addre…

And its friends: * Geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en * Postal Addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addre… * Time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believ… There were some HN links that showed up in my searches, but I didn't bother to include them; left as an exercise to thea reader. Similarly, I didn't try to put them in "who got to which first" order; they're alphabetical and all delightful.

Falsehoods geographers believe about server setups - http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en

See also “Falsehoods programmers believe about geography”: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187

http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&amp;lang=en Falsehoods programmers believe about geography http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addres… Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programmers-believ… Falsehoods programmers believe about gender http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/06/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a… Falsehoods programmers believe about networks http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believ… Falsehoods programmers believe about time http://butgrace.com/2012/06/19/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-abo… More falsehoods programmers believe about time

Fun to think about, but in the real world, no question neatly divides people, even the gender one. To quote Reddit's u/tailcalled[1], the exo-software/meatspace world is even less standardized than the software world: Falsehoods programmers believe about gender: http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programmers-believ… Falsehoods programmers believe about names: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-abo… Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses: http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addres… Falsehoods programmers believe about time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believ… More falsehoods programmers believe about time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-b… Falsehoods programmers believe about geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1fc147/falsehoods_program…