[_yosefk]

"I don't believe it's my position to enforce the amount of whitespace another developer has to use in their editor."

I suspect this might not be my most popular comment, but I honestly think that this is why tab users might actually make less than space users on average. On average, it's more productive to enforce things than leave everything configurable, thus different everywhere, thus harder to make sense of and debug. I knew brilliant people who don't want to "enforce" and decide and dim people who happily enforced and decided and it's always amazing how badly the former do career-wise relatively to their talent and effort, and how well the latter do relatively to theirs.

(Of course there might be another explanation for the data and I don't claim that my just so story is in any way scientific; though I think it should pass as a scientific theory in the social sciences.)

[ccalf]

It's plausible and goes to show why the blog post choosing salary is itself a bad metric to begin with. It has skewed the entire discussion.