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This means you consider consequences beyond "but it works on my machine" so you're a better programmer. Ergo, higher salary.
Well, of course. Only companies with fuck-you money can afford the extra bytes spaces take up versus tabs, so it follows logically that they'd pay their developers more.
I needed a good laugh this morning. But of course this is pretty bogus relationship. People who drive Teslas make more money than those who drive Gremlins.
But there's an actual causation here (you need more money to buy a Tesla). Use of tabs and salary don't seem to have any relation one way or an other. My personal guess would be that using spaces is a practical decision and might be more popular towards older, more experienced devs (who are therefore better paid). On paper tabs sounds better, they're "configurable", you should indent with tabs and align with spaces,…
They explicitly rejected this explanation after controlling for years of experience.
We finally compromised and we're using 3 tabs.
I needed a good laugh this morning. But of course this is pretty bogus relationship. People who drive Teslas make more money than those who drive Gremlins.
Well, of course. Only companies with fuck-you money can afford the extra bytes spaces take up versus tabs, so it follows logically that they'd pay their developers more.
yeah, just because in 2017 storing source code is the most expensive thing for a company. but really, the storage is almost free nowadays...
Of course professionals get paid more, but I'm surprised there are so many tab users out there! Time to add a new interview question.
Just oldsters cargo culting old kludges into the 21st century.
Pretty simple: you use spaces because you're aware that there is more than one IDE/editor in this world and who knows what your code will get opened with tomorrow. This means you consider consequences beyond "but it works on my machine" so you're a better programmer. Ergo, higher salary.