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

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Post by Clubber » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:56 PM UTC

MrCrbll wrote: post #27

lvoudour wrote: post #14

>Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs Sure, but how many spaces? grabs popcorn

Where does using vim to insert four Spaces everytime I press tab leave me?

A brilliant automation solution!

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

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Post by TekMol » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

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 are usually not used to communicate. Maybe that impacts the general choice of tabs/spaces.

Or maybe more sophisticated users tend to exchange the tab key for something else:

https://xkcd.com/1806

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

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Post by omginternets » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

oblio wrote: post #3

howscrewedami wrote: post #2

correlation != causation

Of course you'd say that, you tab user!

Spoken like a space-using degenerate.

(J.k.: spaces FTW)

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

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Post by barrkel » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

IanDrake wrote: post #34

Older people use spaces. Older people make more money because they are further along in their career. Thus it only appears spaces make more than tabs, when it's really about age. Just a guess.

The graph has experience as its y axis.

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

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Post by douche » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

treehau5 wrote: post #15

flipp3r wrote: post #8

Jetbrains product users make more money? ;^)

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

The full toolbox is less than a dollar a day - it's not like we're talking about really expensive licensing. They're not RedGate.

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

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Post by Clubber » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

kutkloon7 wrote: post #28

"The model estimated that using spaces instead of tabs leads to a 8.6% higher salary". So the model actually predicts causality, instead of correlation? That's amazing. I'll start using spaces instead of tabs today and I will ask for a 8.6% raise. According to this model, I should get it!

Join a basketball team, you'll be taller too!

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

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Post by sroussey » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

I'd rather see the results for those that don't participate in SO surveys: those making $200-500k.

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

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Post by DonHopkins » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

howscrewedami wrote: post #2

correlation != causation

Maybe so, but does correlation !== causation?

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

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Post by SurrealSoul » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

File > Preferences > User Settings > Tabs place two spaces

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

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Post by yxhuvud » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

dkhenry wrote: post #35

Good thing things like YAML have now trained me to only use spaces. Also for those looking to make a quick buck, emacs has `c-x h m-x untabify` enjoy

   ;; if indent-tabs-mode is off, untabify before saving
   (add-hook 'write-file-hooks
              (lambda () (if (not indent-tabs-mode)
                             (untabify (point-min) (point-max)))
                nil))

is pretty sweet if you are lazy.