Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by MichaelMoser123 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:12AM (#14561110)

I think that a rational sounding inerpretation can be found: all spaces means python programmer (mixing spaces and tabs messes up the indentation), python rulez, therefore high salary

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by jake-sutton on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:54AM (#14561537)

According to the article, he tried controlling for language and the effect remained.

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by mncolinlee on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:44AM (#14561440)

Spaces over tabs is the default for IntelliJ. Given there are over ten million Java developers who are in very high demand, Python is practically a rounding error.

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by chaosphere2112 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:54AM (#14561539)

Also, they controlled for language and the effect was still present.

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by qb45 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:27PM (#14561854)

The only thing they didn't control for is Stack Overflow use.

It's official: science proves that highly paid tab users just don't need it.

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