Poll: HN readers, where's your residence? • Hacker News Board

juliendsv-mbm wrote: post #199

kunley wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OT, but frankly such attitude is recurring and I can't imagine how it is compatible with HN "ethos". If you're at work, be effective there or change the work. What's to be so proud in slacking during work hours? Would you want such people working in your startup?

I don't think reading some news after lunch, or while having your morning coffee, is that bad for your productivity ...

When someone claims that he's on HN "exactly because he's at work", it's not sounding like some innocent morning coffee break.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by Tichy » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 12:55 PM UTC

sasvari wrote: post #162

kgutteridge wrote: post #154

UK here. It is interesting to how the poll was segregated! can I ask where you are from? I've always thought that a lot of people from the UK are guilty of thinking US, UK, Maybe France, Germany, Spain, RoW (Rest of World) Thankfully the internet and travel have made the world a smaller place and these opinions are starting to break down!

the reason I made this distinction was mainly due to the cultural similarities the UK shares with the US (not only the language), which should result in the UK being overrepresented in this poll (compared to the rest of Europe ). I didn't want to split this up too much, and because of the (kind of) US-centric nature of HN I just wanted to get a rough estimate about where people reside.

Which cultural similarities that would lead to overrepresentation in this poll do you mean? The tendency to spend long hours on the internet?

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by Uncle_Sam » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 12:55 PM UTC

Russia

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by LBarret » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 12:56 PM UTC

France