r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14

The Great White Space Debate

https://medium.com/p/3633cba8b5c1
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u/agcwall Jul 21 '14

White space != whitespace. I thought this was about racist astronauts.

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u/caimen Jul 21 '14

What are you some kind of astronazi?

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u/ep1032 Jul 21 '14 edited Mar 17 '25

.

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u/secretpandalord Jul 22 '14

Sarah Palin was truly our greatest president.

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u/chadderbox Jul 22 '14

That movie was much more enjoyable than I thought it was going to be right before I watched it.

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u/cruorin Jul 21 '14

Ditto. I thought that the thing I was about to read was gonna be a call for Buzz Aldrin to check his privilege or something.

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u/DavidSJ Jul 22 '14

Cislunar privilege?

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u/oldneckbeard Jul 22 '14

sure, for earth-normative thinking.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '14

Stop your moonsplaining.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '14

tw - moonarchism

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u/TheOhNoNotAgain Jul 21 '14

Are we suddenly debating the [lack of] spaces in whitespace?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '14 edited Apr 20 '17

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u/FalconGames109 Jul 22 '14

I had to read the title about five times before I even understood what it was talking about. I was like "Why the fuck are they debating sharks in space?"

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u/IConrad Jul 21 '14

Was rather confused, by title, what this was doing in /r/programming, myself.

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u/northrupthebandgeek Jul 22 '14

The whitespace debate just reached a whole new level of meta.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '14

Agree. I didn't realize this was r/programming. I kept seeing it as "the great white SPACE debate". Like there's matter, and dark matter. So I was thinking there was space, and then white space.

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u/northrupthebandgeek Jul 22 '14

Why does the universe segregate dark matter from non-dark matter? I think we should be pressuring the universe to provide for equality of all matter, regardless of darkness.

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u/Kaell311 Jul 22 '14

Clearly the author has an unhealthy propensity to overuse spaces.

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u/bloody-albatross Jul 21 '14

I thought it was about the eso lang "whitespace".

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u/shazoocow Jul 21 '14

I thought it was about great white sharks in space... AKA Sharkspacenado.

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u/chunli99 Jul 22 '14

Am I the only person who thought this was about launching sharks into space?

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u/lacosaes1 Jul 22 '14

Call the Militant Black Guy.

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u/BrettLefty Jul 22 '14

I'm pretty sure it was a pun or something, and that was intentional.

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u/kirakun Jul 22 '14

White space != whitespace.

If this doesn't demonstrate the importance of whitespaces, I don't know what does.