Poll: Where are you from? • Hacker News Board

tdm911 wrote: post #80

whatusername wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Count me in as #5.

Frequent reader, less frequent poster and #6 from Melbourne (Geelong to be exact!)

I am surprised to see such a strong Melbournian contingent. Maybe the rain keeps you indoors, nothing to do but program? ;)

Sydney here, although going back to Tokyo for summer. (Reference for Melbourne residents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer)

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Post by lisperforlife » Mon, Mar 23, 2009, 9:29 AM UTC

muon wrote: post #139

Bangalore, India

One more from bangalore. Go Bangalore. :-)

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Post by cubicle67 » Mon, Mar 23, 2009, 9:35 AM UTC

froo wrote: post #122

z3r0p4r4d0x wrote: post #12

Melbourne, Australia

Speaking of Melbourne, how's the weather? Nevermind I'll ask again in 5 minutes when it has changed! Perth, Australia here.

Another for Perth

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Post by treo » Mon, Mar 23, 2009, 9:36 AM UTC

Germany

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Post by sho » Mon, Mar 23, 2009, 9:39 AM UTC

Well, that's a decent number of samples - as of right now, 323 yanks, 324 non-yanks. Even taking into account timezone and foreigners-eager-to-represent-their-country selection bias, that's pretty surprising.

So according to this profoundly unscientific and unrepresentative poll, about half the world's (english speaking, community-seeking) startup talent is concentrated in the USA, and about half everywhere else. Interesting.