<story><title>List of falsehoods programmers believe in</title><url>https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewstuart2</author><text>If we really aspire to be an information-driven culture who makes informed decisions about important topics, we really ought to curate lists like these down to actual informed discussions on the items in the list.&lt;p&gt;Printing out a list of &amp;quot;falsehoods&amp;quot; littered with personal opinions and calling them &amp;quot;demonstrable&amp;quot; [1] without a shred of evidence is not going to contribute to general knowledge. There may be some utility in getting me thinking, but for the most part I just find it self-aggrandizing. For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, I do find this [2] format much more helpful. I&amp;#x27;d very much rather see valid counterexamples proving a sweeping statement false than yet another sweeping statement that happens to cover a few sweeping statements.&lt;p&gt;Of course, the above is my personal opinion and may not be shared by the rest of the community, but &lt;i&gt;please&lt;/i&gt; can we do better than curating a list of lists we agree with?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chiselapp.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;ttmrichter&amp;#x2F;repository&amp;#x2F;gng&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;trunk&amp;#x2F;output&amp;#x2F;falsehoods.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chiselapp.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;ttmrichter&amp;#x2F;repository&amp;#x2F;gng&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;tru...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mjt.me.uk&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mjt.me.uk&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>List of falsehoods programmers believe in</title><url>https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bshlgrs</author><text>This list is an awkward mix of posts containing easily-verifiable but surprising claims about various technical specifications, and posts which just make a variety of contentious claims with no particular evidence provided (I think the economics one is possibly the worst).</text></comment>