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Going spelunking in an old codebase, eh?
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Tabs or spaces. We are going to parse a billion files among 14 programming languages to decide which one is on top. Amazing just how many people are so wrong!
Let's go to war over it!
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Will the top one be the one with the most bytes in the target programming language or...
... the one with the least bytes? Aha!!!
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I'd be all over tabs if editors would limit tabs to indentation only and use spaces in the line-interior when pressing the TAB key. But every editor stupidly uses tabs everywhere and gives no option to do otherwise. I think that's what the main complaint is about of the spaces-only people like me.
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Why should one not use tab in mid line? I often line up trailing line-comments using tabs. or sometimes vertically arrange arguments to methods, etc. or struct layouts with multiple columns using tabs.
Tabs in mid-line are common - which is why editors have to allow them.
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Tabs mid-line will cause alignment issues when you change the tab size. Using spaces mid-line will avoid that issue. Why does that matter? Because the stated reason for many people for using tabs is to allow different developers to indent differently because some like an indent of 4 while others like an indent of 2 and still others 3. I've even seen 5 spaces for a tab. So, while your multi-column struct layouts, method argument arrangements, etc are all nice and pretty for you, someone else viewing them with their different preferred tab setting will see them all skeewampus. Additionally, many differencing tools assign 8 spaces to a tab and now your tab indentation and mid-line alignments are really fubar when viewing the differences. Using spaces mid-line will at least avoid the massive misalignment of those bits of code.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Tab size should be 4 characters, this is accepted after not much discussion across my entire team. We never change it and anyone who chooses a different one is just wrong and deserves all the hassle this brings. 
Simples!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Until you start using open source or you use source from some acquired company or licensed product all of which has differing standards to yours.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We don't do that! Who would do a thing like that? That's crazy talk!
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Indeed.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I agree - tabs on the left, spaces after the first printable character of a line.
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...and it's JAVA that is most wrong, I noticed.
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Even though I detest JAVA, I disagree and say they have it most right. Just my personal preference.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I agree that JAVA shouldn't take all the blame. Anyone using spaces where tabs are more appropriate is just wrong! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Spaces FTW 
Jeremy Falcon
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Especially since it obvious Spaces is the only right choice 
But as soon as someone can tell me how long a Tab is, then I might, maybe, ish, change my mind
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The simplest rule I follow is that if it comes after a paragraph mark or a tab, it's a tab. Otherwise, it's a space.
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And thus was it shown that efficiency is not a consideration to most coders. 
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Quote: One vote per file: Some files use a mix of spaces or tabs. We’ll count on which side depending on which method they use more.
Does this metric just compare numSpaces to numTabs, or does it apply a scaling factor to account for a line indented entirely with spaces having several times more than a line indented entirely with tabs. (I've seen enough cluster elephants using a mix of both on one line to dismiss the possibility that they're counting space only lines vs tab only lines because a file with a mix of both won't be that cleanly differentiated.)
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I find it interesting that the .c files get it right most of the time, but .h and .cpp files are wrong. I would think those three would be more in line with each other.
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actually, .c files get it wrong most of the time while .java and .h and .cpp get it right most of the time.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The lossless compression technology is aimed at replacing existing libraries like zlib that are powered by the outdated Deflate compression algorithm. Because no one knows compression like the site people use to stalk old classmates
Yeah. Sorry, blanked.
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Sort of odd they're not even crediting Yann Collet, and that they're pretending that they're only just now releasing Zstandard as open source..
They released version 1.0 just now, which is nice, but that's not the impression the article tries to create.
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LZ4 still blows this away. Through experience I've found that once you compromise on speed as much as Zstandard does, you may as well go all the way to LZMA.
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