Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
The annual Stack Overflow developer surveys often include lots of bad news. "People still use PHP," for example, is a recurring and distressing theme. "Perl exists" is another.
But never before has the survey revealed something as devastatingly terrible as the 2017 survey. Using PHP and Perl are matters of taste. Extremely masochistic taste, certainly, but nobody is wrong for using those languages; it's just the programming equivalent of enjoying Adam Sandler movies. But the 2017 survey goes beyond taste; it goes into deep philosophical questions of right and wrong, and it turns out that being wrong pays more than being right.
Developers who use tabs to indent their code, developers who fight for truth and justice and all that is good in the world, those developers have a median salary of $43,750.
But developers who use spaces to indent their code, developers who side with evil and probably spend all day kicking kittens and punching puppies? Their median salary is $59,140.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 3, Touché) by vux984 on Sunday June 18 2017, @02:04AM (4 children)
"How many bytes are wasted by storing 4 spaces instead of one tab across all the source code worldwide?"
Less than one copy of Smurfs 2 in ultra hd. So, if we can get one person on the planet who downloaded it from bit torrent to see what the fuss was about after it got cracked to delete their copy, we'll free up enough space to moot that part of this debate.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 19 2017, @05:54AM (3 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday June 19 2017, @06:03AM (2 children)
You aren't wrong, but neither was I:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/moot [dictionary.com]
moot :
verb (used with object)
5. to reduce or remove the practical significance of; make purely theoretical or academic.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/moot [dictionary.com]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 19 2017, @06:31AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday June 19 2017, @02:58PM
I'm not sure 'moot' as meeting is in common usage anywhere. I've read it in Tolkien that way (entmoot) but that's about it.
Yes, I *could* care less. Because I do care a little.