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Poll: Where do you work?
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you even begin to collect the data necessary to make an informed decision on this?
I'm aware of one side of the equation, many millions of dynamic websites. My wager would be that websites and web related stuff (also intranet) now makes up the bulk of the software written but that the money is still made on the other side.
> websites and web related stuff (also intranet) now makes up the bulk of the software written [...]
Are you going to measure by line or byte or syntax-tree node or similar? Are we going to include throw-away scripts? What about zeroth order functional programming (i.e. spreadsheets)?
Anyway, I'd also wager that there's more money made outside of the web. (Though, how do we classify, e.g. Apple app-store sales?) For the wager about for what the majority of software is written, we'd need some clearer vision of what we're talking about before.
Let's agree on some definitions (and an arbiter), then we can put up some odds and money.
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#74What's the difference between 'Non-web company' and 'Other'? Is Microsoft a 'web bigco'?
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#75Lol... there are more startup founders than startup employees. A lot of 1 person startups out there?
Good analysis. No `lol' necessary, though.
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#76May want to add "Other" as an option. Consider a smaller company that develops a couple of established products. Or one-person consulting shops. Or contract developers, etc. In short - just add "Other" :)
Where does a university development position fall within this realm?
I put it under non-web company, though now that you mention it, a university isn't really a "company." Seems better than "other", though, since it falls under the same general area.
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#77Startup founder (and sole employee) here. Interesting poll, but at first I thought you meant "where" as in what location. That's a very interesting question that I'd like to hear answered. Especially if you're freelance, on your own, remote, or otherwise don't have an office to go to. What I've noticed is that I can't seem to work in the same physical spot for more than 2 months in a row or so. After that all my crea…
I've noticed the same thing, but found that I can get around it by simply moving to a different room in the same house. When I was doing my startup, I tended to move my primary workspace between living room floor, chair & makeshift desk, bed, and outside every month or two. And even working in a big company now, I've moved desks about 10 times since joining a year ago, and the longest I spent in any one location was about 7 months (and I felt pretty drained by the end of that).
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#78Missing option: None
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#79GPS/mapping business
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you wager there is more software written that is not web related and that it collectively makes more money than the stuff that is?
I am almost certain that non-web software brings in much more revenue than web software. There is a lot of niche WinForms stuff out there from no-name vendors that rule a given industry and companies pay a lot of money for that, and that's not even counting revenue from office suites, operating systems, financial management, and other desktop software that sits in every business. There are a few glaring exceptions li…
Close your eyes. Pick a direction randomly. Point. What are you pointing at? You're pointing at something that took over a billion dollars of software to get to your door. Software at the exchange, at the bank, at the office, at the factory, on the loading dock, on the ships, controlling the trucks, in the supply chain, running the register, in your car.
No, web is not the last refuge of software, and $20/mo. is not a high price point.