> I respect immensely the contributions Doug has made to many Apache projects,
Hear hear! I fully agree with that one. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Rich Haase <rha...@pandora.com> wrote: > I respect immensely the contributions Doug has made to many Apache > projects, but I don’t think that should be a reason to force everyone to > write code as if our screen sizes can’t support more than 80 characters. > > On May 5, 2015, at 12:21 PM, Niels Basjes <ni...@basjes.nl<mailto: > ni...@basjes.nl>> wrote: > > Perhaps we should tell him these screens can also be turned landscape ? ;) > > But seriously: > 1) Does Doug still actively work on code? From my perspective; Only very > infrequently. > 2) In the 200+ people IT department where I work I know only 1 colleague > who uses his screen in portrait mode and he doesn't do code. > > So, for who do we really stick to the 80 chars limit? > > Niels > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@altiscale.com<mailto: > a...@altiscale.com>> wrote: > > > On May 5, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Rich Haase <rha...@pandora.com<mailto: > rha...@pandora.com>> wrote: > > Can someone explain to me why on earth we care about limiting line > length to 80 characters? Are there hadoop developers out there working > from teletype terminals? Can we perhaps update this limit to something > sane, like 120 chars? > > > > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-common-dev/201407.mbox/%3CCALEq1Z8QvHof1A3zO0W5WGfbNjCOpfNo==jktq8jiu6efm_...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > > > -- > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, > > Niels Basjes > > Rich Haase| Sr. Software Engineer | Pandora > m (303) 887-1146 | rha...@pandora.com<mailto:awils...@pandora.com> > > > > -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes
