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: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 19 2017, @05:40AM (2 children)
--->--->thingy->ops.krudge_wotsit(&thingy->wotsit,
--->--->--->--->--->--->--->--->··thingy->settings.wotsit_mode,
--->--->--->--->--->--->--->--->··krudge_mode,
--->--->--->--->--->--->--->--->··ostream);
have had enough experience in the real world to command anything but the lowest level of intern's salary?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday June 19 2017, @11:29AM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 19 2017, @02:42PM
And it proves that you are unfamiliar with exceedingly common coding styles used by projects which have contributors numbering in the tens of thousands. Not being familiar with the field diminishes your ability to be taken seriously when discussing the field.
If you think the code needs to be "fixed", then you will never get a patch in to the linux kernel, you won't even pass checkpatch.pl.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves