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Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Post by apapli »

watwut wrote: post #40

Possible explanation: Tab vs space is likely to be correlated with technology (C vs Java vs JavaScript) and different technologies pay differently.

I thought that too, but further down the article it seemed that wasn't the case.

I'd like to see the split of age vs tabs and spaces. I'm with a few other people that may say experienced programmers prefer spaces as it causes them less formatting issues over time when working in larger teams or on differing IDEs - and experience pays more.

Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Post by j45 »

TekMol wrote: post #42

This does not mean that changing from tabs to spaces will increase ones income. I would expect there simply is a confounding factor that the author did not look at. Maybe the info is not in the data. I can imagine that the space/tab choice is related to the "upbringing" of the developer. Maybe which language or editor they used first in their life. Or maybe it's related to culture. For example when using IRC, tabs ar…

It may also hint at the years & depth of experience & skillset.

Those who grew up in a shell often ended up building a much more diverse set of skills, the commonality of which is a lot of text based files with a favourite editor.

This extended to using tools like IntelliJ, Eclipse, etc.

Hope a follow up of this study can include the IDE's and if that has some say in this.

Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Post by austenallred »

Almost certainly a result of the spaces cabal and the (often unspoken of) prejudice against tab users. Don't think you make hiring decisions based on tabs vs spaces? Well you're part of the problem, then.

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Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Post by [deleted] »

deelowe wrote: post #32
pletnes wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I have bad experience with tabs. Experience and salary are correlated. Also some languages are "tab friendly" and there are correlations between language and salary; see previous HN posts on the topic.

I'm thinking this has more to do with it.

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Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Post by Lyrkan »

BoorishBears wrote: post #57
TekMol wrote: post #42

This does not mean that changing from tabs to spaces will increase ones income. I would expect there simply is a confounding factor that the author did not look at. Maybe the info is not in the data. I can imagine that the space/tab choice is related to the "upbringing" of the developer. Maybe which language or editor they used first in their life. Or maybe it's related to culture. For example when using IRC, tabs ar…

If you hit Tab in Notepad and hit save you get a file with tabs. If you hit Tab in IntelliJ or a related IDE you get a file with spaces. If you hit Tab in an older version of VS (the kind you'd expect in certain types of settings where high pay is not usually expected) you get tabs, but in newer versions you get spaces (with defaults)

Unless the project you're working on has an Editorconfig file and your IDE supports it (VS and IntelliJ do by default).

In this case it is supposed to override your IDE settings.

Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Post by tombert »

jelder wrote: post #51

I've been using prettier.js in my JS projects for a few months and honestly I can't imagine going back to formatting my own code. It would be like making all of my own clothes or something. Who has time for that? The Go community was on to something with gofmt (even if they did decide on tabs).

I tend to agree, but aren't most of the new hot languages whitespace sensitive? Are there formatters for those kinds of languages?

Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Post by clavalle »

pc86 wrote: post #52
treehau5 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How else do you think they can afford to pay for the licenses?

The $89 a year is not exactly breaking the bank.

The time savings alone probably paid for itself in two days of use.

Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

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Post by dmix »

okreallywtf wrote: post #68
lrusnac wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, just because in 2017 storing source code is the most expensive thing for a company. but really, the storage is almost free nowadays...

Seems unfair to downvote you just for misunderstanding, that was sarcasm friend.

It's pretty much an unwritten rule that a sarcastic joke on the internet with sufficient exposure will get a response by someone who didn't get it. Using /s really kills the fun (and whole point) of using sarcasm so it's a trade off to accept these comments will happen.

I'm impartial to downvoting as to reply literally doesn't usually add to the conversation, which is generally the point of downvoting. Losing karma shouldn't hurt your feelings.

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