Poll: Where abouts are you hackers from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640384

by wihon • 16 years ago

30 73 16 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

aitoehigie• 16 years ago

Nigeria

mahmud2• 16 years ago

Somalia. Greetings from the other side :-)

[Edit: oh, this is about where you are? I am representin' Packerland.]

RiderOfGiraffes• 16 years ago

Depends on what you mean by "From". Where was I born? Where did I grow up? Where did I go to school? College? University? Where was my first job? Other jobs? Where am I now?

There are five different answers lurking there, depending on what you mean.

wihon5• 16 years ago

I think I meant where you are at the moment, as I get the impression that hackers often move to where the work is. But good point - I should have been clearer. :-)

mahmud2• 16 years ago

You will get far less interesting answers that way, given how we all tend to gravitate towards a few countries, and Imperial San Francisco ;-)

MisterWebz• 16 years ago

Belgium.

pjmurray• 16 years ago

New Zealand

Synthetase• 16 years ago

Excluding the most populous country on the planet seems more than a mere oversight...

wihon5• 16 years ago

I just creamed off the top five countries from my google analytics data. Completely arbitrary - but I thought not completely irrelevant, as only people interested in programming would be likely to visit my site. Maybe I should have thought a bit harder...?

aadvaark• 16 years ago

India is on the list

karanbhangui• 16 years ago

China is the most populous country...

namin• 16 years ago

Switzerland

ablutop• 16 years ago

azrealus• 16 years ago

Poland

charlesdm• 16 years ago

Belgium

thelittleguy• 16 years ago

Netherlands

darklajid• 16 years ago

Germany..

jacquesm3• 16 years ago

All the rest of Europe is 'other' ?

wihon5• 16 years ago

There are countries all over the world populated by great hackers - may I refer you to an earlier reply (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640665) to explain my (admittedly hasty) reasoning for choosing these in particular. So far though, the US is definitely dominating the list...but that might be because most Europeans (myself included) should probably be tucked up in bed around now.

jacquesm3• 16 years ago

I'm in Europe and definitely not tucked in (2:20 am here).

Amanjeev• 16 years ago

lol. That's disrespect.

thibaut_barrere• 16 years ago

France.

ronnier• 16 years ago

Dallas, Texas. USA

lancewiggs• 16 years ago

New Zealand

hnalexk• 16 years ago

Ukraine.

lindbergh• 16 years ago

There is an obvious flaw to this poll: hackers don't share the same time zone. For example, right now, it's still very early in the morning in India.

wihon5• 16 years ago

That's a problem with posting on HN in general - I often find (admittedly IMHO) interesting links and post them in the morning, european time, but because most of HN's readers are from north america they often get largely ignored - and thus have slipped down into oblivion by the time the americans log in. Or maybe I just post crap links...

Paulomus• 16 years ago

Australia

brutimus• 16 years ago

Las Vegas, NV, USA

mkramlich• 16 years ago

I was born in the USA. I live in Ameri-duh. Sometimes my mind is in Brazil. (cue theme music)

mattwdelong• 16 years ago

Born in Canada, but just moved to West Michigan and love it.

beedub• 16 years ago

New Zealand.

pcora• 16 years ago

Brazil

krsna• 16 years ago

Canada, born and raised.

_fzct• 16 years ago

Bangladesh

morazyx• 16 years ago

Spain.

elviejo• 16 years ago

Mexico

maw• 16 years ago

From the US, currently living in Mexico. So I voted for USA and other.

ikbear• 16 years ago

China

malkia• 16 years ago

Bulgaria.

stakent• 16 years ago

Poland

fezzl• 16 years ago

Singapore and Malaysia, anyone?

iworkforthem• 16 years ago

Singapore #1 reporting. :P

ryanteo• 16 years ago

Sg! =)

rdl• 16 years ago

From the US, currently in Thailand (heading to Australia)

ahmedaly• 16 years ago

I am from (and in ) Egypt!

rsaarelm• 16 years ago

Finland

mhansen2• 16 years ago

New Zealand

c00p3r• 16 years ago

I'm posting this from Sri-Lanka, if it matters. ^_^

mhansen2• 16 years ago

Damn, guys, fill in your profile pages! It's hard to find programmers here - it'd be awesome to get in contact with some other HN readers in New Zealand

nikz• 16 years ago

Done ;)

briandek• 16 years ago

From Peru, working in the US :)

lfx• 16 years ago

Lithuania

silvajoao• 16 years ago

Portugal

gspyrou• 16 years ago

Greece

jeremyswank• 16 years ago

Czech Republic

BJakopovic• 16 years ago

Australia

pkirk• 16 years ago

Italy

ghansson• 16 years ago

Stockholm, Sweden

TheSmoke• 16 years ago

Lovely Turkey.

hajrice• 16 years ago

Originally from Bosnia, spent a large part of my life in the US, now in Bosnia for the next 8 months.

phpnode• 16 years ago

cough http://www.hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html

rev087• 16 years ago

Brazil

faikr• 16 years ago

Sweden

rmc• 16 years ago

Ireland

madX• 16 years ago

Austria

blinkit• 16 years ago

Argentina.

redrory• 16 years ago

Jamaica

lawlit• 16 years ago

Morocco

nRike• 16 years ago

Mexico City!

base• 16 years ago

Portugal

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