Sun.Jun 17, 2018

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The Things That Don't Matter When Building Software

Professor Beekums

I like to joke that one day I’m going to get a Phd in economics and make my thesis the cost to global GDP of the tabs vs spaces debate. There’s a great episode of Silicon Valley about it. Unfortunately, while the show does exaggerate some things for comedic effect, the brilliance of that show is how close it hits to home. For those who don’t know what the debate is about, developers can indent their code with spaces where it will look like this: Or they can indent their code where it will look l