{"id":549,"date":"2016-01-02T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:57:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:57:47","slug":"things-we-think-are-true-but-are-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Things we think are true but are not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day my son and I were talking about common mistakes people make when handling different \u201ccommon\u201d data-types in application design. Two of the more interesting examples we discussed were time and names.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few great posts discussing these data-types:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalzumeus.com\/2010\/06\/17\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names\/\">Falsehoods programmers believe about names<\/a>,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/International\/questions\/qa-personal-names\">Personal names around the world<\/a>,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/infiniteundo.com\/post\/25326999628\/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time\">Falsehoods programmers believe about time<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there is the question of sexes,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO\/IEC_5218\">ISO 5218<\/a>\u00a0defines Not known, Male, Female, and Not applicable. Facebook on the other hand has a total of <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2014\/02\/heres-a-list-of-58-gender-options-for-facebook-users\/\">58 options for gender<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryan<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day my son and I were talking about common mistakes people make when handling different \u201ccommon\u201d data-types in application design. Two of the more interesting examples we discussed were time and names. Here are a few great posts discussing these data-types: Falsehoods programmers believe about names, Personal names around the world, Falsehoods programmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[188,189,190],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-thoughts","tag-internationalization","tag-names","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unmitigatedrisk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}