Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays

Re:Advice for new software devs who've read all those other ... by yakshaving_jgt on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @10:13AM (#38709522)

What's stopping you from configuring your editor to automatically strip trailing whitespace on save?

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Re:Advice for new software devs who've read all those other ... by skirmish on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:57AM (#38710766)

Code reviewers that made me type in trailing whitespace that editor stripped: "this change is on lines you are not modifying". Still makes my blood boil many years later.

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Re:Advice for new software devs who've read all those other ... by max_sendfeld on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @10:24AM (#38709659)

Mostly the fact that this was 15 years ago :-)

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