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Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?
Inspired by general confusion.
- atgm 16y agoGunma, Japan for me.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoI'll be interested to see how many people work within 100 metres of San Francisco.
- psadauskas 16y ago"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 suggest "California, Northwest, Southwest, Central, Midwest, Southeast, Northeast"?
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoWell, it says "100m"
- wallflower 16y ago100m seems to be a good filter to toss out the many Silicon Valley people who work in the hope canyons of the suburban office parks
- rmc 16y agoYep "100m" must mean metres. C'mon we're all engineers here, we know the metric system and SI. "mi" is mile.
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- henryw 16y agoI thought it meant 100 miles. 100 meters is about the length of a football field.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoAccording to WikiPedia a football field varies in length between 135 and 185 metres: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Australian_football#Field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Australian_football#Fie...
- redthrowaway 16y agoI'm almost dead center of the city, but I'm on the 35th floor, so no dice for me.
- chubs 16y agoBoo-yah! First aussie :)
- fibonacci1 16y agoYou forgot "Texas."
- jpiasetz 16y agoThis isn't a very good poll because the groups are different things and sizes. Why don't you just do it by State/Province? For example. I live in Toronto so I'm going to Select the Great Lakes, so are people in Waterloo, Buffalo, etc, etc all at the city level. On the other hand, you've lumped a bunch of countries together in Eastern Europe. Also 100m is confusing because it refers to both metres and miles. I assume in your context you meant miles but lots of people with science backgrounds would assume metres.
- psadauskas 16y agoYou're right, all of North and South America aside from specific areas of the US are missing.
- msbarnett 16y agoReally? The closest category for Canada is "Other"?
- bkorte 16y agoYeah, "Great Lakes" is a region, but Canada isn't?! Lame. And there should be "Canada West" and "Canada East".
- pedanticfreak 16y agoI agree. Since when was Great Lakes a region? Most people call it the Midwest.
- VinzO 16y agoI guess some will say you have to add Quebec
- gcb 16y ago4 people from canada here, eh? (replace 4 with parent's upvotes at time of reading so joke becomes timeless)
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- rdl 16y agoKhao Lak, Thailand for another ~12 hours, then boring Palo Alto or San Francisco. :)
- jacquesm 16y agoYou're going to be in Thailand for 12 more hours and you're reading HN? I'd be using what time I had!
- rdl 16y agoEnh, I got burned out on Thailand months ago -- I was living there most of Q3 and Q4 2010. But I actually was mainly using HN on an iPad or iPhone while sitting on the beach, or at a restaurant, or going to/from dive boats, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
- brianwillis 16y agoNew 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".
- nigelsampson 16y agoTicked other, Auckland New Zealand.
- julianz 16y agoYep Other and NZ here too.
- te_chris 16y agoYup ticked other, Auckland NZ here.
- flog 16y agoAustralasia is a region of Oceania. There's a good graphic at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oceanias_Regions.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oceanias_Regions.png
- bosveld 16y agoJohannesburg - South Africa
- chintan100 16y agoWow, surprising to see someone from South Africa. Not too many coders here. I am close to you at Durban right now. Originally from India. Here for onsite work. :)
- BarryKay 16y agoMe too. What are you working on?
- chintan100 16y agoI am an iPhone Developer here.
- sandyc 16y agoHahaha, awesome, Australia made the list :D (seems odd, but I'll take it ;)
- pamelafox 16y agoFYI, I made a map gadget for Wave (which now works in Shared Spaces) that visualizes where people are coming from. It uses a naive but functional clustering algorithm to show density bubbles. You can try it out in this space: http://sharedspaces.googlelabs.com/V02zVAFPz8 http://sharedspaces.googlelabs.com/V02zVAFPz8 (You will have to login with your Google, Twitter, or Yahoo cred though.)
- unsigner 16y agoWTF is "other Europe"? Malta? Israel?
- woodpanel 16y agothe colonies maybe? or if you can't decide if you're eastern or western europe?
- tomh 16y agoRussia maybe? Of course, if you're in Moscow or St Pete's then you're 'other Europe' otherwise you're just 'Asia'.
- leon_ 16y agoMaybe a code name for central Europe. Which he sadly forgot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
- jeremyswank 16y agoi don't quite get the europe categories. define "eastern europe". and "other europe"? what about "central europe" where i live?
- j_baker 16y agoOther suggestions for where do you work polls: * Where do you work (temporally)? * Where do you work (spiritually)? * Where do you work (existentially)? ...and my personal favorite: * Where do you work (programmatically)?
- jacquesm 16y agoGood chunks of Scandinavia would consider themselves solidly part of 'Western Europe' and with 'Mid-Atlantic US' qualifying for a category it's surprising that the United Kingdom wouldn't rate a mention, I'd wager there are far more people from there active on HN than you might suspect.
- timrobinson 16y agoWait, what's "Mid-Atlantic US"? You have to split your time equally between New York and London?
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- crocowhile 16y agoYes, in fact western europe tops the list with ~90 points and the day just started over here. I have the feeling that the american internet userbase seems so much overrepresented on the interwebs just because it's very loud. EDIT: ops, I misread. I thought the thread was started 22 hours ago, not two. USA still has to wake up then.
- arethuza 16y agoI think people tend to forget how large Europe is in total (larger than the United States), the size of the population (731 million) and how large the economy of the region is.
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- wlievens 16y agoAntwerp!
- patd 16y agoGo Belgium !
- CWIZO 16y agoI voted for "Other Europe", since Slovenia is neither Western or Eastern Europe. It's somewhere in the middle :)
- davidw 16y agoIs it Southern Europe? It's right next to Italy, but doesn't extend so far south, and is barely a Mediterranean country. In any case, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece are what I'd call 'Southern Europe' more than west or east, although I'd say west if I had to pick one.
- CWIZO 16y agoWe always had the problem of putting Slovenia in one of the slots. If you ask me it's in Central Europe, but historically we ware always put in the Eastern part (but that probably has more to do with politics than geography).
- mati 16y agoHave 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. </sarcasm>
- zalew 16y agoNo, we don't need any new categories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_UN_geoschme.svg 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 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147290 ), his are a bit strange and subjective.
- leon_ 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
- timrobinson 16y agoI suggest a "where are you?" poll based on http://xkcd.com/850/ http://xkcd.com/850/.
- razzaj 16y agoIt is odd that the Middle East is mentioned but not South America... or maybe HN thought WTH we will assume it is "US Other" lol
- route66 16y agohttp://www.hackernewsers.com/ http://www.hackernewsers.com/ seems to have some information also.
- vanschelven 16y agoThis poll is probably going to be influenced heavily by the moment is was asked, c. 8:00 in the morning in western Europe.
- adnam 16y agoYet another enormously USA-centric poll.
- old_sound 16y agoHey, there's South and Central America. Where do you think Brazil is for example? Don't you think Mexico has enough population to worth a mention? No mention of Africa either?
- zalew 16y agoWhat's wrong with using UN's geoscheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_Nations_geographical_subregions.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_Nations_geographica... instead of inventing your own categories?
- jacquesm 16y agoThat the UN doesn't break down the United States in to high-tech regions. So 'North America' would lump together 9 regions in the list above each with a different taste. The poll is basically a US centric poll with the rest of the world thrown in as an afterthought, unfortunately that's a pretty accurate representation of the way many tech people see the world. This actually causes a feedback mechanism that now means that being located 'in the valley' translates in to a very real competitive edge.
- zalew 16y agoWait, for me there's nothing wrong in narrowing specific regions (such as US or even silicon valley), but the rest (like dividing Europe into west, east and other) leads to confusion, not to mention that forgetting South America is pure ignorance. > unfortunately that's a pretty accurate representation of the way many tech people see the world. True that.
- lazyant 16y agoThat map shows Siberia and Russian Far East as "Eastern Europe" wtf? is the Kamchatka Peninsula part of Europe according to the UN? Europe is traditionally divided from Asia at the Ural Mountains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
- zalew 16y agoIt's administrative borders. Russia is considered a European country.
- phpnode 16y agoHere's the locations of ~1600 members, http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html US has about 6x as many users compared to the next largest, UK.
- foxhound_97 16y agoSouth Africa
- nbm 16y agoCape Town, South Africa. (Just got my H-1B this morning, and off to "Within 100m radius of San Francisco", though.)
- BarryKay 16y agoI'm from Jozi. What business are you building?
- agaton 16y agoLinköping, Sweden
- soyapi 16y agoLilongwe, Malawi, Africa
- cao825 16y agoPittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- asdr 16y agoIstanbul, Turkiye
- cfontes 16y agoBrazil here, in fact in a city called Campinas.
- vtatai 16y agoGlad to have some other brazilians around, I used to live in Campinas also but now live in Joao Pessoa.
- jhonnycano 16y agoLatin America
- lukejduncan 16y agoAny Detroiters out there
- jes5199 16y agoYou have Los Angeles and Seattle in the same region? Seriously?
- nolite 16y agoimpressed by the number of Europeans here