Too many options. I'd have found a continent poll more interesting, I bet many will just not bother scrolling.
Scrolling? You do know about / right? Just type /Belg (or Ctrl-f) to find Belgium.
Well,sure,I use Vimium anyway. But we shall see.
Poll: Where do you live?
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Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#162Was hoping there was going to be a Silicon Valley option (Or SFBA) but nope... Just California - you know - a place which has 40million people with a lot of them not in SFBA.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#163US: Montana
You pick by upvoting your choice in the poll.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#164There were similar polls in 2013. We could compare against those to measure tech dispersal over the last decade! - "Poll: Where are you currently living?" (Countries, 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582647 - "Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?" (US states, 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5222370
That might measure HN moving to a wider audience rather than the original audience physically moving.
The community is clearly a lot different than in it was 2013. I would guess a relatively larger portion of people outside of the Bay Area is part of that.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#165Why does America get states and UK doesn't get England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
>> Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed. Each US state is about the size of a European country, sometimes with similar population. That's one of the things that always comes up in polls of what surprised Europeans about the US when they visited - just how big it is.
Big, but relatively unpopulated. Even California would rank together with Poland.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Except that the author obviously ticks one. Not sure if they are allowed to, or be satisfied with 1 of everything...
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#167I was curious to know which locations are ranked the highest,
so I made this quick 'n' dirty shell script:
#!/bin/sh
curl -s 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378' | awk '
BEGIN {
FS = "[]"
}
{
for (i = 1; i Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have heard the hypothesis that the main reason Silicon Valley was able to grow is because non compete clauses are invalid in California. So people can start a side business competing with their employer, and only risk being fired (as long as they dont steal IP) They could also freely hop from company to company without waiting in between.
Yes, it's argued here that this is how Silicon Valley won out over the Boston area (DEC, Pr1me, Wang, MIT, so many other great universities): https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/2/13/14580874/google-self...
The more liberal atmosphere around non-competes surely played a role. Silicon Valley was also ideal because the land was inexpensive in the early days, compared to most metro area real-estate, the weather was vastly superior to East Coast cities like Boston and NY, and the culture on the East Coast was stuffy, slow and rigid (whereas there was excitement to going west, blazing a new trail; the culture of California was very different from the East Coast). Having the old corporate giants on the East Coast was oppressive and antithesis to the birth of something like Silicon Valley. SV was the new world, they built it up from farm land.
Given the context, it doesn't matter if Boston has nice universities: they become poaching grounds for Silicon Valley in that respect. The Yankees don't care if their minor league teams are in Tampa or Atlanta, they're taking the talent regardless of where it's at. The talent will almost always happily move for the right price and or opportunity.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada is smaller than California.
By land area Canada is about 20 times as large as California, by culture I'd consider Canada to have a few much more distinct areas than California (comparing Toronto vs. Vancouver vs. Calgary the distinctions are pretty close to the range you'd get across the whole of California by my opinion - with Quebec being radically different... Quebec is less like Vancouver than Texas or Mississippi is like California). By po…
> By land area Canada is about 20 times as large as California
Cornfields and tundra don't post on HN much.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed. Each US state is about the size of a European country, sometimes with similar population. That's one of the things that always comes up in polls of what surprised Europeans about the US when they visited - just how big it is.
It's... still one country, though. And while I understand that Americans are very preoccupied with the difference between California and New Jersey, please understand that it's not that important (or obvious) to the rest of us.
I suppose it's because the main issue is whether or not HN is "Silicon Valley", and so if you're in the UK (for example) you are not Silicon Valley regardless of if you are in NI, Scotland, Wales, or England.