since it's late night in asian countries I hope the poll stays on frontpage till tomorrow to get better stats.
Poll: Where do you live?
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Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is begging for a console.table console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)))
Current top 10: 'US: California' '79 points' 'Canada' '48 points' 'US: Washington' '39 points' 'US: New York' '36 points' 'Germany' '35 points' 'United Kingdom' '34 points' 'US: Massachusetts' '19 points' 'Netherlands' '18 points' 'US: Colorado' '17 points' 'Sweden' '16 points' Colorado #9? Really?
As percent of total responses, as of right now:
'US: California', '10.87%'
'Canada', '5.79%'
'United Kingdom', '4.51%'
'US: Washington', '4.45%'
'Germany', '4.45%'
'US: New York', '4.32%'
'US: Colorado', '2.10%'
'US: Texas', '1.97%'
'US: Massachusetts', '1.84%'
'France', '1.78%'
Edit: quick and dirty one-liner to get the full table with relative values:
data = [...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)); total = data.map(a => parseInt(a[1])-1).reduce((a,b) => a+b, 0); console.table(data.map(a => [a[0], ((parseInt(a[1])-1)/total*100).toFixed(2) + "%"])); us = data.filter(a => a[0].startsWith("US:")).map(a => parseInt(a[1])-1).reduce((a,b) => a+b, 0); `US makes up ${(us/total*100).toFixed(2)}% of ${total} responses`
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#183What order is this list?
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
China and India has a bigger population, and China has a similar landmass as the US yet is just one option in this poll.
On the other hand, as of right now, China has 1 point and India 9. That combined is less than Poland, which has 15. It makes sense to have finer granularity for the poll options people will actually choose.
People in India are asleep right now.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#185The 5 people reporting in from North Korea tell me that this poll isn't going to be accurate.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
California doesn't have to be the center for tech anymore as the world has shifted to a distributed workforce. The US doesn't, for that matter, and you can tell it's happening due to all of the new international investments. Edit with some sources: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/europe-vc-funding-unicorns-... https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Market-Spotlight/Venture-c... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
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.
I always understood it to be rooted in raw materials: The silica mines were there, which attracted semiconductor fabs, which attracted hardware companies, which attracted software companies, etc.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Current top 10: 'US: California' '79 points' 'Canada' '48 points' 'US: Washington' '39 points' 'US: New York' '36 points' 'Germany' '35 points' 'United Kingdom' '34 points' 'US: Massachusetts' '19 points' 'Netherlands' '18 points' 'US: Colorado' '17 points' 'Sweden' '16 points' Colorado #9? Really?
Denver and Boulder have a good amount of tech. A bit surprised it comes out ahead of Texas though. Also the UK and Germany being about the same is interesting. Germany does have a slightly larger population, but of course the UK is natively English speaking.
Well, EastEnders was on...
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#188I'm sure there are many Indians on HN, but they probably reside somewhere in the US.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#189Please add 'Orbit', that would be really cool.
I think the chances for an astronaut to be on HN is at least as high as him being on Instagram.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#190Brazil
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