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Re:List of falsehoods programmers believe in by bshlgrs on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:56PM (#13637733)
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).
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Re:List of falsehoods programmers believe in by nostrebored on Monday February 13, 2017 @04:10PM (#13638800)
Falsehoods programmers believe about gender is a pretty great example.
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Re:List of falsehoods programmers believe in by firepoet on Monday February 13, 2017 @05:01PM (#13639188)
A great example of what? From what I read in there, each of those falsehoods is verifiable. Which one(s) (is/are)n't?
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Re:List of falsehoods programmers believe in by _qwfv on Monday February 13, 2017 @07:08PM (#13640083)
It's a pretty great example of falsehoods programmers believe.
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Re:List of falsehoods programmers believe in by masterleep on Monday February 13, 2017 @02:38PM (#13638044)
The ideological ones are really horrible.
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Re:List of falsehoods programmers believe in by Falling3 on Monday February 13, 2017 @05:07PM (#13639240)
Which ones are ideological?
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Re:List of falsehoods programmers believe in by cpburns2009 on Monday February 13, 2017 @05:42PM (#13639516)
Most of the Human Identity section and the Society section.
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