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People are talking about the 'flop' of google+ because of the reduced number of public posts. Others counter that this is due to the fact that moost google+ activity is hidden from the public eye. To resolve the…

For your startup, are you more interested in a horizontal (one function across many industries like word processing or collaboration) market or a vertical (multi-functional in one niche like medical claims processing,…

I noticed that many of my hacker/programmer friends don't ten finger touch type. How many of you can?

For those that haven't seen, the game was released a week ago and has seen extraordinary adoption, with some controversy. Specifically: - It's been the fastest mobile game to top the iOS and Android app stores [0] - On…

If it didn't matter syntactically with the programming language and there isn't a style guide governing it, do you prefer spaces or tab(s)? Why? Edit: clarifying here, I'm referring to the characters saved into the…

Below are the most popular languages. If your favorite isn't listed below select “other” and comment what it is below. Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it…

I'm building a SAAS product targeting small companies (monthly subscription). Given we're a french company but the product is not location-dependent, we're going to launch internationally. The easiest choice given we're…

Just curious how BitRich the HN crowd be.

How many monitors do you have attached to your main development machine ?

I was IM-ing with a friend after coming home tonight and we got into a heated debate about Apple’s app store banning (a story I’m sure every HN reader is aware of at this point). I said the Government should intervene…

I've encountered a variety of grammatical formulations recently, and I'm wondering which people here prefer. Which of the following would you say?

After a thread somewhere else on HN this question seems worth asking. The reason why is that I think that google has gone from 'a good improvement' to 'very important' to 'a must'. (of course there's bing now as well,…

With the recent news about apple being forced to open up their eco system, and more sites being login walled, alternative frontends/clients getting "killed", I wondered how much HN really cares/wants Interoperability.…

Equal Pay Day is Tuesday, April 9, 2013. This date symbolizes how far into 2013 women must work to earn what men earned in 2012. Does your startup pay your female employees the same as your male employees?

Feel free to suggest more frameworks too.

Also, see results of other polls Mostly Yes: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10282329- poll-would-you-buy-facebook-stock Mostly No:…

After reading the End of men, it gets one to wonder about this.

When mathematics is taught in schools (K-12 and college), a lot of the time is spent learning how to do the nitty-gritty calculation work. My question is: how much time should be spent teaching the calculation work…

Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again. The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the…

Inspired by other such polls for SF bay, London etc. The Salaries here are in USD. Base annual salary only, pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.

Just wondering about how much HN has grown.

Inspired by recent posts. What is everyone’s goto for everyday linux distro

Based on the original thread, I'd like to see how the stats break down.