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Ask HN: Software Developer Statistics (a day in your life)
I am making a little study on software developers.
I would really like to know more about our profession and I believe you would too.
The questions are targeted toward everyday routines and making something similar to this http://www.inc.com/magazine/201109/inc-500-infographic-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-ceo.html
If you participate, I will share the results with you and hopefully make a blog post with our daily life habits.
I will not be selling you anything during this questionnaire nor requiring any contact. But please, be honest and reduce trolling to achieve good results :).
- kikas 14y agoWhat will the data be used for?
- jaimefjorge 14y agoTo create a view like this one: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201109/inc-500-infographic-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-ceo.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/201109/inc-500-infographic-a-day... Hopefully to understand how we live daily as software developers
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- michaelt 14y agoWhen you say "How much time do you spend on Emails?" does that mean just time with focus on the e-mail client, or does that include the time spent on gathering data to compose a response?
- jaimefjorge 14y agoI guess gathering data. If your current task is to respond and email, then it should be considered as email time.
- rgbrgb 14y agoAw man, this is a poorly designed survey. The amount of data cleaning you'll have to do is tremendous. I would recommend spending a bit more time up front making drop-downs for units, verifying that numbers are entered, etc. You'll actually probably save a lot of time in data cleaning this way and your cleaned data will be more accurate.
- jaimefjorge 14y agoI now.. :( In my defense, I did not imagine so many people answering it.
- jaimefjorge 14y agoHere are some automated results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dEQ1WTYwY2FVVmpOUXpOVVRlTWpwR3c6MQ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dE...
- danparsonson 14y agoFor 'how much down time do you get' I assumed (actually, wrote) 'per day' but I think it would be worth clarifying that (unless you did and I missed it :-)
- tomjen3 14y agoAlmost all of the radio buttons needs to be toggle buttons. I sometimes take the bus, sometimes my bicycle. I sometimes show up at work before 7 and sometimes after nine. I spend more time eating, but only because the company also provides breakfast. I code/hang out here both before and after dinner. My sleep schedule is as fucked as you can imagine, sometime it is less than 5, sometimes more than 10 and from time to time I work all night. Which goes to say that I have no clue what a normal day would look like for me.
- nickolai 14y agoWhat time of the day do you usually have each activity? Morning Afternoon Night Disperse throughout the day [...] Lunch [...] Um... is that a trick question, or is there a part of the world where lunchtime doesn't separate the morning from the afternoon ?
- jaimefjorge 14y agoIt began as a stupid question (an error of mine).. And as expected people eat in the afternoon (82%). However, 5% eat throughout the day and 2% dont eat at all, which is interesting :)
- iamgopal 14y agoTime is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- anrope 14y agoI'm surprised by the number of people who don't drink coffee. High fives all around.
- jaimefjorge 14y agoJust reached 3000 answers! Thank you HN for this! I am now closing this to start parsing the data. The kind people at @TrendCollective (http://www.trendcollective.com/ http://www.trendcollective.com/) accepted my challenge to make an infographic out of this information. So expect to see this information in a cool way that was made entirely by the community! Awesome!
- devgutt 14y agoLink to follow up?