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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by dankohn1 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:54PM (#14563837)
My answer would be that any modern software development shop should be using a linter like Rubocop, eslint or gofmt that runs automatically on every commit. It doesn't actually matter what standard a group chooses, but there is real cognitive overhead to trying to understand inconsistently formatted code. And, people shouldn't be the ones criticizing incorrectly formatted code; a GitHub robot should be.
Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by infogulch on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:52PM (#14564255)
Exactly. The impact of any decision has much more significance socially that the sum of all of the individual significance.
Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by jamaicahest on Friday June 16, 2017 @03:01AM (#14567128)
The article is taking about average salary, which is a society topic, i.e. social.