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A comment on Ask HN: Differences in Programming Style by Nationalities. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Differences in Programming Style by Nationalities by tleb_ on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:02PM (#26867313)
I don't see what conscientiousness means in this context, could you expand?
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Re:Ask HN: Differences in Programming Style by Nationalities by lindy2021 on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:20PM (#26867523)
The amount of effort expended, e.g.

- always additive, never proactively refactoring

- a proclivity towards reaching for SO rather than reading the manual

- inconsistent formatting, number of line breaks, ordering of identifiers, etc

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