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Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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

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Post by sivers »

d99kris wrote: post #284
jwingy wrote: post #206

In Singapore, though I'm from the U.S. :)

Also in Singapore, but from Sweden. Saw in your profile that you're bootstrapping, do you find Singapore a good environment for a startup? I haven't really looked into it, yet..

It's a pretty incredible community here. Hackerspace, e27, SGEntrepreneurs, Echelon, JFDI, SmartSpace, StartupRoots, FounderInstitute, F11, etc. So many startup meetups and events.

So if you need social/community support, there's lots of it in Singapore.

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

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Post by DanielStraight »

tcarnell wrote: post #269

Do people post this stuff just to earn karma points? What use would this half-thought through data set provide? and who would use it? Can we NOT repeat the same polls again? I suggest creating a Hacker News 'polls' section which lists a permanent list of polls ideally with a public data API and bonus points for a pub/sub mechanism to help 3rd party application developers build something that might actually be useful.…

I posted a high-karma-earning poll once ("Do you know C?"). I suspected if it caught on, I would earn a bunch of karma, but I posted it because I didn't think as many people knew C as seemed to be commonly assumed (and because I couldn't find a previous poll on the same topic). Sometimes you just want to know how reality aligns with common belief.

Nevertheless, I think your idea is great.

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