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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by CydeWeys on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:56AM (#14560973)
Could well be. I know that Google for sure requires spaces, and some cursory Googling leads me to the believe that Facebook does as well. Does anyone have information on Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc.?

Of course, if all of the top companies are requiring spaces, then there's probably a reason for that, and its impact on salary data is thus meaningful, not just a spurious correlation.

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by _IsThisRealLife on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:08AM (#14561071)
When I was working in Windows about 5 years ago they required spaces.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by saagarjha on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:43PM (#14564188)
Don't work there, but I know that Apple tends to use spaces for their public-facing code–I'd expect that their internal code does too.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by CydeWeys on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:07PM (#14565836)
It's sounding like all the top tech companies use space-based indentation. Our style guide makes some pretty convincing arguments as to why it's better. It sounds like good developers are either more likely to (a) work at top companies or (b) search out information on best practices for handling indentation. Mediocre developers probably just use whatever, which ends up being tabs a lot of the time.
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