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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Yeah and I'm totally missing Norrland in Sweden. Bummer ..

And someone has added imaginary places like Finland, as a joke.

Some people in central Canada I have spoken with actually don't know that where I live is a Canadian province. They've never heard of it. Plus time zones too they said they thought it ended at Eastern time but there are two more time zones past that.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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I think of Silicon Valley not so much as a geographic region any more, but rather a way of working, that has been exported all over the world now.

Eh, sort of. As an east-coast resident who has worked for both tech startups as well as large companies, (currently one of the large SV companies), I will say I still view SV as a very different vibe than any work culture I regularly experience here. Anecdotally, my colleagues - past and present - would agree.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Firefox. it used to actually default to quick searching anything you typed (with / quick searching only links) but now you have to fiddle with an option for that. ETA: in the spirit of the thread: I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US. Which I've said before.

There's also ' (apostrophe) for "quick find, in hyperlinks only". I sorely miss it when using Chrome.

Firefox's quickfind behavior is a solid 25-30% of why I never switched to chrome.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.

I have a cousin twice removed who knows FoxPro and could do this.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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I noticed that every single country/state, has at least one vote. Just for Ss & Gs, you should add "Greenland," and "Antarctica."

That's because of the architecture of HN (and indirectly Arc I'd presume) where every created `item` (stories, comments, individual poll-items) starts with 1 point by default, as the author surely would have upvoted it anyways.

So to correctly interpret the results one has to subtract 1 vote from each?
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