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Falsehoods programmers believe about time

Posted on June 19th, 2012 at 5:42 by John Sinteur in category: Software -- Write a comment

That thing about a minute being longer than an hour was a joke, right?

No.

Desiato on June 19th, 2012 at 9:28:

Good stuff. Thing is, you need to either find really good platform support for these kinds of things, or you end up making assumptions just to get something “done”. One of the annoying things with moves to newly fashionable languages is the loss of rich existing libraries, etc.
Sue W on June 19th, 2012 at 15:14:

One of the annoying things about moving to an elderly legacy system is the former programmers who started out on it when it was newly fashionable. They were full of the joys of discovery and wanted to show off their party tricks. What were they thinking?

One of the really annoying things is that I did it as well, long ago. What was I thinking?
Roland Hesz on June 20th, 2012 at 13:43:

I find it hilarious how people lashed out in the comments “so what should we do?” and “who would need all these rules?” when all the guy said: next time think before you implement name handling.
Instead of assumptions, make decisions.

But that flew over the head of a lot of the commenters.
Roland Hesz on June 20th, 2012 at 13:46:

And that comment was supposed to go to the “Falsehoods programmers believe about names” post.