For those interested, there is a list of lists of falsehoods.
I love this, thank you.
Yeah, I gotta admit I definitely assumed most of those things would be true. I knew it could be messy, but I didn’t realize it was such a loosely bound garbage heap.
First I just want to say, that is a damn beautiful website. No ads, no popups, just pure information.
And second, as a former back end developer who has spent a huge amount of time working on input sanitization and building database schemas, that list gave me mild PTSD for a job I have never even had.
I’m in fintech and honestly I wouldn’t have made any of these assumptions… Because I’ve long ago given up on the idea that any real world system is anything better than loose heuristics.
Like, I could be pleasantly surprised at some point… But honestly even if a PO swore up and down that something was “certain” I probably wouldn’t even believe them.
I’m also surprised that they didn’t mention that a flight could arrive on a calendar day before it departs.
Fun fact: USN Aircraft Carriers have their own ICAO code.
That was fascinating. Ditto the link in the post to the article on names, which they cited as inspiration for writing it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/?ref=flightaware.engineering
There are also lists for time and date and for phone numbers. It’s an article format that I love because it gives you a lot of insight into a topic even if it’s not your field of knowledge.
That is a classic, one of which I sadly expedienced personally.
