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Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders by jpgvm on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:30AM (#5478362)
8 spaces?

Probably because this is similar to the Linux kernel programming style. Many of us learnt C from the kernel or projects that follow it's coding style.

Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders by lsiebert on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:56AM (#5478416)
Assuming you mean the code on github, I use tabs for indentation in vim, but have tabstop and setwidth set to 2. So if the code has 8 spaces, that is github or the browser. Feel free to make a pull request, or I can try to fix it (though I am kinda focused on my portfolio for internship applications atm). Should be a simple regex though.
Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders by mst on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @08:13AM (#5478808)

  perl -pi -e 's/^(\t+)/"  " x length($1)/e' recurse.c
seems to do the trick; vary the number of spaces inside the "" to taste.