The xkcd survey • Hacker News Board

brianwawok wrote: post #45

Gravityloss wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that is very wasteful. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshw...

I mean, I run 6 days a week so my running socks get beat up pretty bad. When they are dead, I need to throw them out. So my options are: 1) Buy 1 new pack of socks, throw out 6 old socks - repeat every month. Doing it this way I have to match socks between several different styles. or 2) Put 4 packs of socks, throw out all of my socks, repeat 4x less often. Also I have no matching to do, as all of my socks are the sa…

Ok, maybe I assumed you don't use them as heavily and also have more socks.

Re: The xkcd survey

#74

Post by ArekDymalski » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 3:09 PM UTC

Was it proper thing to stop myself from writing "five random words are here" as a response to "Write five random words"?

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by muaddirac » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by moubarak » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

After wasting time on this i get "Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again."

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by spacehome » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

I spent 15 minutes filling it out only for Google to tell me "Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears."

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by hitekker » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

I have a google form like this for Couchsurfers who wish to stay a few nights in my apartment. I believe my questions might be little bit more on the insane side though.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by kachnuv_ocasek » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #45

Gravityloss wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that is very wasteful. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshw...

I mean, I run 6 days a week so my running socks get beat up pretty bad. When they are dead, I need to throw them out. So my options are: 1) Buy 1 new pack of socks, throw out 6 old socks - repeat every month. Doing it this way I have to match socks between several different styles. or 2) Put 4 packs of socks, throw out all of my socks, repeat 4x less often. Also I have no matching to do, as all of my socks are the sa…

>I have to match socks between several different styles Do I understand correctly that you throw all your socks into a drawer/container, and when you need a pair, you go and have to find two matching ones?

This may be cultural (or even familial) thing, but I always curl two socks up into a ball so that they stay together. When I need a pair, I just take one ball, uncurl it, and voila.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by smcl » Wed, Sep 02, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

542458 wrote: post #22

abruzzi wrote: post #14

Is the submit not supposed to work on iOS? Kind of a let down to spend 10 minutes filling it out, then the submit button doesn't do anything.

Try again? I had to try twice - google forms seems to be a bit overloaded.

Yeah I got asked to resubmit, then redirected to a blank survey after the third time. Wonder if that means it was submitted, oh well...