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

Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by jdc0589 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:34AM (#14561352)

and you would have missed the point of the question entirely.

Regardless, thats a pretty unnecessarily aggressive response to an interview question; or maybe I'm just reading it that way.

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by mcv on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:32AM (#14567812)

Or you would be missing the point of the answer.

It's not meant to be aggressive, but to make a point. It's important that everybody uses the same coding style, regardless of personal preference. Spaces are fine, tabs are fine, but mixing them would be absolutely terrible. A programmer's personal preference for one or the other is irrelevant. What matters is that he's willing to adapt to the coding style of the company.

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by khedoros1 on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:53PM (#14571158)

> Spaces are fine, tabs are fine, but mixing them would be absolutely terrible. A programmer's personal preference for one or the other is irrelevant. What matters is that he's willing to adapt to the coding style of the company.

That sounds like a better answer to the question right there. It's the "some though out response" that the interviewer was looking for, willingness to put the team's decisions ahead of your own, and so on.

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