Cisco
location? I'm in RTP.
nah, HQ.
Poll: Where do you work?
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#132Apple
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#133Other in my case means walking around in bad neighborhoods, hoping to get shot so I don't have to go to my crap job.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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
Not to mention Sharepoint and all the new Office Web Apps.
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#135Now for "other", there's something: I work for the IT dept of a French administration while finishing a software engineering degree. :)
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#136Earlier 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…
shhhhhhhhh. Lets keep this as our big open secret. Let all the young hotshots chase after then next viral twitface/linkbook mashup web 3.0 dohicky while the rest of us mine the huge seams of paydirt in the unglamourous enterprise space.
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#137Sigh, these poll options seem to confirm to me just how myopic many HN and startup people are about the software world. Believe it or not, there is a LOT of software that gets written that either is not "web", or related to a startup. Additionally, the people that write it do find the content at HN relevant and interesting. I found myself at a party in SF on New Years at an apartment that housed a startup as well as…
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#138Startup 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…
My experience has been the same, though I'm only working from these locations few hours a week on my side project.
Your comment made me wonder though about the the state of affairs at most workplaces. How we spend 8-9 hours chained to one desk and one office/location for months and years on end is to me, puzzling. I wonder what the results would be like if employees had the flexibility to work from wherever, for extended periods of time, back to their desk for a few months, and off again.
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#139adult industry.
So I guess "Other web bigco" was your option.
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#140Amazon deserves to be listed here, I think.