Poll: Where do you work (geographically)? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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Post by te_chris » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 10:27 AM UTC

brianwillis wrote: post #12

New Zealand. Sometimes we get lumped in with Australia. Sometimes the region is called Oceania or Australasia (the origin of both these terms baffles me). I checked "other".

Yup ticked other, Auckland NZ here.

Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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Post by nbm » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 10:29 AM UTC

Cape Town, South Africa. (Just got my H-1B this morning, and off to "Within 100m radius of San Francisco", though.)

Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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Post by rmc » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 10:55 AM UTC

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #6

psadauskas wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"metres"? Seems like an odd measure from the distance from a city. Perhaps km or miles? Also, I suppose Denver falls under "Other US"? Seems like several disparate geographic areas are getting lumped together. Additionally, I think that "Great Lakes" is a subset of "Midwest" (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Penn) and "New England" (East Penn, New York). I do understand wanting to separate out Chicago, though. Might I s…

Well, it says "100m"

Yep "100m" must mean metres. C'mon we're all engineers here, we know the metric system and SI. "mi" is mile.

Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 11:04 AM UTC

psadauskas wrote: post #4

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #2

I'll be interested to see how many people work within 100 metres of San Francisco.

"metres"? Seems like an odd measure from the distance from a city. Perhaps km or miles? Also, I suppose Denver falls under "Other US"? Seems like several disparate geographic areas are getting lumped together. Additionally, I think that "Great Lakes" is a subset of "Midwest" (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Penn) and "New England" (East Penn, New York). I do understand wanting to separate out Chicago, though. Might I s…

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Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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Post by leon_ » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 11:07 AM UTC

unsigner wrote: post #20

WTF is "other Europe"? Malta? Israel?

Maybe a code name for central Europe. Which he sadly forgot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe

Re: Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?

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Post by leon_ » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 11:09 AM UTC

zalew wrote: post #51

mati wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have the same issue with Poland. We need this damn Central Europe category so we can escape the dreaded "Eastern Europe" badge... And since we are in no way Western, Central is the only way.

No, we don't need any new categories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_UN_ge... Unless we speak colloquially, then there's an infinite number of groups to qualify. The OP should use some reference to choose categories ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147290 ), his are a bit strange and subjective.