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Matthias Wiesmann
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Matthias Wiesmann's personal blog at wiesmann.codiferes.net covers programming and history. Since 2013, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Falsehoods programmers believe about geography”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Welcome on the old-school part of the web-site of Matthias Wiesmann, entierly written in vi, just like 30 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Falsehoods programmers believe about geography7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-05-30
- Falsehoods programmers believe about geography3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-30
- Falsehoods programmers believe about geography (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-15
- Falsehoods programmers believe about geography (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-31
What Hacker News says?
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._p... > Other issues you might want to consider are locations with multiple names or spelling variants,…
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on “Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about geography (2012) as a story · 62 points
HN discussionFun 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-programm... Falsehoods programmers believe about names: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-p…
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on “33 Questions”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about geography as a story · 44 points
HN discussionhttp://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en Falsehoods programmers believe about geography http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab... Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programm... Falsehoods programmers believe about gender http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/06/falsehoods-programmers... Falsehoods programmers belie…
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on “Articles Every Programmer Should Read”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about geography as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAlso: Falsehoods programmers believe about time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm... More falsehoods programmers believe about time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-pro... Falsehoods programmers believe about geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187 Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmer…
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on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers”Submitted 42 Years of Programming – The Amiga as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNames: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... Time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm... Addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a... Geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en
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on “Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name”Submitted 42 Years of Programming – PCs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI 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
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on “An island that switches countries every six months”Submitted Image Format Test Page as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee also “Falsehoods programmers believe about geography”: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187
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on “Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about geography (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> 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.
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on “Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about geography as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFalsehoods geographers believe about server setups - http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en
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on “Falsehoods programmers believe about geography”And its friends: * Geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en * Postal Addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a... * Time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm... 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…
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on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names”> 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#international... http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programme... https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-progra... https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/30296 I love how the writing gets visibly more unhinged and fru…
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on “Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes”
