[HN Gopher] Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates ___________________________________________________________________ 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... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-10-02 23:01 UTC)