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Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by kamaal on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:48AM (#18346116)
One wonders what kind of challenging tasks a programmer who can't even indent code, can solve.

By the way indenting code happens to be the most basic of code review checks.

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Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by 200px on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:19AM (#18346394)
Code indentation has been automated away since like 10 years or ago or maybe even more.

Vim, Emacs, Atom, Sublime Text, Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans can all auto-indent code for you. Combined with linters they can also automate stylistic checks and coding convention.

I don't know anyone who indents code themselves. The editor/IDE does it for them.

Indenting code is certainly not a code review check. No sane workplace should waste a senior developer's precious time commenting about indentation problems during code reviews. It is a tooling check that is part of CI/CD.

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Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by tome on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:58AM (#18346202)
Why waste human time on what can be done by a machine?
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Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by cmoscoso on Thursday November 01, 2018 @01:32PM (#18356353)
In my experience, a compiler would be wasting my time interrupting me with errors that are easily catch later, playing with the clojure REPL.
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