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So Canada, the second largest country in the world - a width of nearly 1/10th the earth - is second in this list to California. California is a lot like Vancouver and Toronto, but it's not remotely like the Maritimes, or you know, Quebec. Ah well. Neat poll, thanks.
I was a little dissapointed to see Canada was not divided into the provinces.
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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.
It's 04:33 in the morning in China (in one of the timezones at least), makes sense.
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Now we need to divide the votes by the population of each place
Yes, hilarious to see "South Dakota" as a specific region, but Canada as a whole.
Employees there that I talked with had never noticed that for everything sourced outside Africa the outline and flag of that nation was displayed but for everything from Africa there was only an outline of Africa labeled as "Africa".
Geography is so important especially today with the ability to connect to anyone, anywhere in near real time.
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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.
Not sure if this post still ranks in the morning as it's evening in the EU so probably not many people will answer, while the Americas will. I know there are a lot of people from the EU here.
Yeah, would depend on how long it'll be featured on the frontpage page indeed. I know people who only check the /best page once a week or something like that too who would probably miss this unless a ton of people upvote it. Or maybe we can ask @dang to give it a "jobstory" treatment so it keeps around the frontpage for longer?
I 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 It scrapes the web page, so it's kind of fragile.
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There 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.