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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 sp
by austenallred 9y ago
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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- lliamander 9y agoIt's not really prejudice if those 'tabbies' are just inferior, is it?
- beaconstudios 9y agoI can't believe that in 2017 I'm reading comments containing blatant spacial prejudice on Hacker News of all places.
- austenallred 9y agoI wish I could say I'm surprised. Hacker News has a known spacial prejudice problem. It's exacerbated by the fact that few people of those who experience spacial preference (please use the proper terminology) feel comfortable here, so many just leave.
- clarkmoody 9y agoEspousing notions of whitespace power. Get that trash out of here.
- lliamander 9y agoMore like get those tabby cats out of here.
- zensavona 9y agoHacker News should be a Safe Space.
- OJFord 9y agoJust one space?
- mi100hael 9y agoSafe spaces are exclusionary towards tabs. Ban safe spaces! We need safe tabs!
- qmarchi 9y agoAs someone who uses Tabs, I vote that every location should be a Space Safe Space. Let's all work hand in hand and follow the style guide! (Which requires the use of tabs, of course)
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- rf15 9y agoAnd here I was about to say that I can't wait for the spacist shitposts from the alt-tab
- ysavir 9y agoIt happens with the best of us. Even Thomas Jefferson used spaces when drafting the Declaration of Independence, despite being an outspoken tabs supporter.
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- jdc0589 9y ago> Don't think you make hiring decisions based on tabs vs spaces? I actually ask candidates "spaces or tabs?" in every single interview. I don't really care what the response is in regard to the holy war, and it doesn't mean anything on its own, but having SOME thought out response can be a GREAT indicator of how well versed someone is in general. e.g. I'm going to think way more highly of someone that says "tabs, because then people can set the indentation render size to whatever they prefer in a way that doesn't affect other users" way more than someone who says "whatever my editor sets it to". Also, fuck spaces. Long live tabs.
- problems 9y agoYeah, it can start some interesting conversations too - I don't care personally and tend to go with whatever autoformat in the editor uses. My view is that formatting code shouldn't be a human's job, adding linebreaks on long lines, spacing things out to exactly line up, etc is just a waste of my time. That's the computer's job - it should do it based on human readability rules though, clang-format is probably the best example of these rules applied, it uses a TeX-style formatting engine for code.
- blazespin 9y agoWow, I am a spaces guy but honestly, didn't care this much. Clearly, I should! I mean, I would have failed that interview question totally. Except, I would have said whatever the team consensus was.
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- _puk 9y agoYour time would be better spent implementing ':set list' on classic whiteboards. That's where your issue lies; subconscious prejudice is happening during the hiring process, you just can't see it.
- ptero 9y agoOh, no! A tab must equate to four spaces (not two, three or eight, only four). To achieve equality you should propose splitting a tab into four tabparts and equating each tabpart with a space. That's true égalité
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- wtf_is_up 9y ago#NotMyIndentation #Resist