Poll: Where do you work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by russnewcomer » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:00 PM UTC

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #87

russnewcomer wrote: post #62

I work for a non-web IT services company in the midwest. I hack a couple of side projects, and would like to get back into software development. Is there anyone else here that's in the midwest, or is it all coastal?

Twin Cities and Chicago areas seem well represented here. I'm at a Minnesota medical devices manufacturer writing controls software.

I'm in Omaha. I know of a couple of startup type companies here, but most development jobs are for BigCos. Not a big IT community here that I know of, but I just moved here.

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by sterling » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:00 PM UTC

kunley wrote: post #34

I wonder how many of us are bootstraping own product while feeding the family by consulting.

I am

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by kessler » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:01 PM UTC

SeatGeek

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by iman » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:01 PM UTC

unoti wrote: post #83

jacquesm wrote: post #49

Earlier 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?

> 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? Absolutely. Software that runs warehouses. Payrolls. Manages inventory. Manages cash registers. Figures out how to optimize manufacturing across multiple vendors, multiple workstations. Robotics. Warehouse automation and robotics. Embedded systems. 3d rendering. Automated trading.…

Also don't forget about the game industry, which is something like $50 billion

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by agalande » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:02 PM UTC

fierarul wrote: post #88

pushtheenvelope wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's see, they have Bing and Hotmail which are significant web operations.

>are significant web operations. How are they significant: by the profit they bring, by the market share or by the investment made by the company? Personally I never associate Microsoft with the web. It's either desktop OS or Xbox.

hotmail is the most popular web based email in the world, internet explorer is the most popular browser in the world, bing wich also powers yahoo accounts for about a quarter of searches in the US, and ten there is windows live, azure, skydrive, etc. Much bigger than most significant web operations imo

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by sterling » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:04 PM UTC

Paris, France - contract web programmer

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by Dilpil » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:05 PM UTC

High frequency trading

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by Shamiq » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:06 PM UTC

fs111 wrote: post #84

seamlessvision wrote: post #14

adult industry.

Since you get upvotes and nobody dares to ask, I step in: What exactly? Front-end? Back-end? Content delivery? Or nothing technical at all?

"Front-end? Back-end? Content delivery?"

Pun intended, I assume.

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by st3fan » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:07 PM UTC

philikon wrote: post #27

Mozilla

ME TOO

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by Shamiq » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 11:07 PM UTC

pushtheenvelope wrote: post #31

nailer wrote: post #4

Contractor? Also why is Microsoft in with the web companies?

Let's see, they have Bing and Hotmail which are significant web operations.

And CRM Online! :D