so that tweet was right, eh?
at the time of this writing, I'm seeing:
California 274
Canada 137
Germany 127
UK 116
New York 110
Washington 104
...
So yeah, "Silicon Valley".
Poll: Where do you live?
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#252
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#253The questions now is where are people from that wouldn't answer this? I'm sure the lurker factor is different per location.
There must be another category "voter" in between commenter and lurker. Content creator > Commenter > Voter > Lurker I wonder what percentage of users vote frequently but don't comment.
I like the concept of voters being an intermediate category between producers/writers and consumers/readers. However, I’d argue that, on Hacker News, the commenters are the actual “content creators” of the HN “community”. It’s easy to submit a URL while it takes substantially more effort (time and thought) to make a useful contribution to an interesting discussion (though submitters are necessary to kick-start the discussions).
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#254Here is a plot https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSYahKij2EKVRCuXEJvLmkvFKLbW...
Country Votes
US: California 258
Canada 129
Germany 119
United Kingdom 110
US: New York 104
US: Washington 100
US: Texas 56
US: Colorado 51
US: Massachusetts 45
US: Illinois 42
France 40
US: North Carolina 38
Sweden 34
Netherlands 34
US: Oregon 34
US: Pennsylvania 32
US: Virginia 30
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#255I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.
Ask codegolf.stackexchange.com, there's probably a Mathematica one-liner to display a globe with colour-coded areas.
I never understood the purpose of languages with unicode operators that can supposedly express a 30 line script in like 2 symbols.
Are they purpose built on the spot for CodeGolf?
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
The concentration of VC funding didn't happen before the local tech companies. It happened because of the local tech companies.
It happened simultaneously, they required eachother in lockstep. Shockley was the spark that set SV on fire (not HP). By chance he ended up in the SV area, moving from New Jersey to Mountain View because his ill mother lived in Palo Alto. Beckman Instruments provided the capital for Shockley to start his company, which led to Fairchild (also formed by outside capital) and off it went. Those companies would not have e…
That's all different in character from modern VC in the valley though. People were not forming firms with the intention of seeking out tech startup investments in a systematic way like they do today. A unique culture has emerged since then.
When the traitorous eight left Shockley, what they did would have been career suicide on the east coast. Now it is encouraged in Silicon Valley corporate culture.
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#257I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.
I'm currently working on a vue + vuex server side rendered PWA with client side hydration.i found the perfect UI component library which only adds ~3mb of overhead,which went paired with Chart.js and of course wrapped with VueCharts.js should be able to query a graphql endpoint to process the results and display in the browser. What do you all think of kubernetes, overkill?
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#258Where is the option for "your basement"?
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#259so that tweet was right, eh? at the time of this writing, I'm seeing: California 274 Canada 137 Germany 127 UK 116 New York 110 Washington 104 ... So yeah, "Silicon Valley".
I don't think that's super conclusive. As others have mentioned, Californians are awake and during their workday right now, other timezones may be sleeping, and some might not see the post at all because they tend do read HN less on the weekend, for example.
I would not be surprised at all if California has a big share, but I don't think this poll is a sure enough way to gauge that. It would have been more insightful if California wasn't one of the top answers right now.
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you, that oncor website seems to be available to me. I was browsing around some news article that seemed to echo the same sentiment, tried to access the source data myself and couldn't, so made an assumption. That was an error on my part and I'm sorry for that. Thank you for providing a better source that seems accessible worldwide.
> so made an assumption You shared lies and slandered a state suggesting its a third world country based on false data.
To be fair, our power grid does have a tendency to fail regularly across the US. Texas last year, California's rolling blackouts, NY blackouts, etc. There's a reason that upper-middle-class homeowners have been buying Generac generators en masse.