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Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
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#242Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Your comment keeps getting up/down-voted like crazy, which seems to indicate that there is a strong and opinionated divide on the topic of proper work ethic.
It would be a lot more interesting if people actually stated their arguments, though.
Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
#244South Africa
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#245I voted Africa, being from South Africa. When I clicked on the up-arrow, the number of points did not increment immediately. I had to refresh the page to see the new number of points. Poor user experience.
Kenyan here, from Nairobi. Most of my more geeky friends are HN lurkers.
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#246Germany
Düsseldorf
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't sign up for any ethos and I don't like policing other people's "innocent coffee breaks" either.
If we're now shunning people for not maximizing productivity, you can count me out.
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#248Malaysia!
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm from Cape Town. Some parts of it might be like SF, but maybe not so much in the startup sense.
More than Joburg, methinks. You have Silicon Cape, Google Ventures, topless models, great mountain biking and a local government that has some interest in your continued success.
Having lived in both Cape Town and Joburg (presently), I've noticed an interesting difference between the city cultures. People in Cape Town seem to start up creative and popular but small businesses, whereas people in Joburg seem to leverage off the huge business network here to create more 'serious', traditional businesses that tend to be more profitable but less 'cool' or popular.
Furthermore, in Cape Town it was rare for me to actually meet people interested in doing a startup whereas in Joburg EVERYBODY wants to know what you do, who your contacts are, if you're keen to get in on something, etc. I'm actually a bit overwhelmed here by opportunities compared to Cape Town.
Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
#250Cologne, Germany. I'm running a 3d printing workshop on the weekend here. If you're interested, have a look at http://dingfabrik.de/2011/11/24/3d-drucker-an-einem-wochenen... (same info in English at http://blog.reprap.org/2011/11/reprap-prusa-iteration-2-buil... ). There's only a couple spots left though.
If I was near Germany at all I'd go to the workshop. I'm building my first Prusa with some friends this weekend. Hopefully everything will go well with our build. Best of luck with your workshop :).
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