[HN Gopher] Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates
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       Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates
        
       Author : boyter
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2020-10-02 04:59 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (engineering.kablamo.com.au)
 (TXT) w3m dump (engineering.kablamo.com.au)
        
       | cdolan wrote:
       | I've seen something similar to this, but about "Names". One was
       | the assumption that most people have a First, Middle, and Last
       | Name. Some cultures have more or fewer names for an individual.
       | 
       | I think a Github repo or YouTube Playlist of "Falsehoods
       | Programers Believe About______" would be very entertaining and
       | informative.
       | 
       | Does such a resource exist?
        
         | ericpauley wrote:
         | https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
        
           | searchableguy wrote:
           | A lot of it has nothing to do with programmers.
           | 
           | I find the CS student section interesting. One of the points
           | talk about short variable names.
           | 
           | I would consider that falsehood based on a HN post about
           | people optimizing cost by having short key names for dynamodb
           | and mapping them to actual names and another one for creating
           | a game for some ancient hardware with very limited memory
           | using a language that doesn't optimize variable names.
        
         | Mountain_Skies wrote:
         | Time to make names linked lists instead of arrays.
         | 
         | Mostly kidding but not entirely.
        
       | tobyjsullivan wrote:
       | I was living in Sydney a couple years ago and frequently found
       | GPS/Google Maps to be a lot less reliable on my phone compared to
       | Canada. It would frequently jump over a street or say I'd taken a
       | turn which I hadn't. I assumed this had something to do with a
       | more dense city, bigger buildings, etc.
       | 
       | Then one day, they moved the official location of the city[0]
       | and, as far as I can tell, the problem went away overnight.
       | 
       | [0] https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw-and-victoria-just-
       | jumped...
        
         | jiggawatts wrote:
         | It's more than just that! The Australian plate is moving so
         | fast that calculations relative to GPS coordinates need to
         | factor in the current date. All other plates are moving slowly
         | enough that this can be ignored, so of course... it's ignored
         | by map vendors. They all use fixed, static coordinates with any
         | temporal effects factored in.
        
       | pkaye wrote:
       | The most useful falsehood list is the following:
       | 
       | https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be...
        
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