But… How do you even know you can smell ants? Why did you try it? Or can you smell them from meters away?
But… How do you even know you can smell ants? Why did you try it? Or can you smell them from meters away?
Of course, but when indentation has a syntactic meaning the formatter often won’t be able to fix it.
It’s probably more prone to mistakes like that, true. But in practice I really never witnessed this actually being a problem. Especially with tests and review.
Yeah, that’s definitely a good point. But it’s a minor thing. Adjusting indentation takes 2 keystrokes in vim, I barely notice it.
So I’m going to say what I always say when people complain about semantic whitespace: Your code should be properly indented anyway. If it’s not, it’s a bad code.
I’m not saying semantic whitespace is superior to brackets or parentheses. It’s clearly not. But it’s not terrible either.
As someone who codes in Python pretty much everyday for years, I NEVER see indentation errors. I didn’t see them back when I started either. Code without indentation is impossible to read for me anyway so it makes zero difference whether the whitespace has semantic meaning or not. It will be there either way.
So, your original comment sounded very relatable and I never heard about an AQ test before. Just took one and got 34. Well…
(For the unfamiliar: 34 out of 50, over 32 means you should probably go and get a real diagnosis.)
When I receive a notification I don’t need to switch away from my editor to check it, I just glance to the left and continue with my work or react if needed. Constantly switching windows in front of me would be so much more distracting for me.
Also, being able to read docs and google stuff on a vertical monitor on the right, while still seeing the code in front of me is incredibly convenient. Again, I can’t imagine switching away from my editor to the docs and to the code again.
I need to be able to effortlessly switch attention between code, tests, logs, docs, notifications. If I can’t do that by just shifting my sight in the right direction, my brain doesn’t function.
It’s so interesting how different people are!
Anything less than that will completely ruin my workflow. I’m even trying to come up with a feasible way to fit a fourth one.
This is me. I still can’t believe how much a few hours of sun can boost my mood.
Man, I’m just chilling and relaxing after a week of SE work and this resonates with me very deeply
I’m exactly the same! Nice to know I’m not the only one.
In all seriousness, once you’re of age the exact number rarely matters and isn’t often used so I’m more surprised people actually remember it.
Software development and computer stuff in general is my passion. I enjoy doing it as a hobby even after doing it at work. If I didn’t have to work for money, I would probably work on some open source software. In fact that’s kinda my dream / goal - achieve financial independence and work on open source as I please.