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Reminds me a lot of that Silicon Valley episode where Richard broke up with his girl-friend because he preferred tabs whereas she preferred spaces.
by stuxnet79 10y ago
Reminds me a lot of that Silicon Valley episode where Richard broke up with his girl-friend because he preferred tabs whereas she preferred spaces.
- dozzie 10y agoSmart girl. She dodged a bullet.
- ivraatiems 10y agoActually, in the episode she was just as petty and smallminded as Richard wa-- Oh. You mean because of the thing. Right.
- lokedhs 10y agoI've never watched SV, but if he prefers tabs I'm surprised his girlfriend didn't break up with him first.
- stuxnet79 10y agoIn the show Richard is billed as a compression guru - his startup is trying to market an impressive compression algorithm he developed. His justification for tabs over spaces in the show was they require less bytes. But the point of the scene was to highlight the sometimes pointless quibbling that programmers can engage in, and how far it can go. Is Linus Torvalds rant pointless? I'm not informed enough to risk an opinion but I doubt the personal attacks, belittling and swearing are helping his case.