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Poll: Where abouts are you hackers from?

30 pointswihon73 comments

I'm curious about where HN readers hail from. I get the feeling that most of you guys and gals are from the US. But I might be wrong. Apologies if this has come up before - that must have been before my time. :-) Country choices are based on google analytics data from my ruby newbie blog.

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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.

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. :-)

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

All the rest of Europe is 'other' ?

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.

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

Heh - good work! Hacking away as we speak?

Yep... with the occasional distraction. (HN, mostly)

lol. That's disrespect.

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

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

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...?

India is on the list

China is the most populous country...

Australia

Nigeria

Somalia. Greetings from the other side :-)

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

Netherlands

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

Done ;)

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.

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...

Germany..

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

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

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

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

New Zealand.

From Peru, working in the US :)

Singapore and Malaysia, anyone?

Singapore #1 reporting. :P

Sg! =)

New Zealand

Finland

Mexico

Bangladesh

Ukraine.

France.

I am from (and in ) Egypt!

Canada, born and raised.

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Dallas, Texas. USA

Stockholm, Sweden

Lovely Turkey.

Czech Republic

Mexico City!

New Zealand

Switzerland

New Zealand

Portugal

Morocco

Jamaica

Argentina.

Austria

Ireland

Sweden

Brazil

Italy

Australia

Greece

Portugal

Lithuania

Poland

Bulgaria.

China

Spain.

Brazil

Belgium

Poland

Belgium.

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

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

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