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  1. Ask HN: Have you remapped the Caps Lock key? [Poll]

    A submission to Hacker News on remapping the Caps Lock key (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6969401) got me curious. From the thread, it looked as if most people remap their Caps Lock key to something else. Since…

    28 points by robinh 64 poll
  2. Poll: Do you click on advertising?

    The '8% of the users are responsible for 85% of the clicks' title may be linkbait supreme, there definitely is something interesting to be found out there. I know HN is not exactly representative of the public at large,…

    28 points by jacquesm 52 poll
  3. Poll: What kind of tool do you use to write code?

    I'm curious not for people's specific tools, but the types of tools they use. When you go to write code, which of these do you use?

    28 points by freerobby 60 poll
  4. Poll: Do you use AdBlock?

    Following on from the "See what Google knows about you" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840916) thread, many HN'ers wrote that they don't really care what ads are targeted to them because they run AdBlock anyway.…

    28 points by dotBen 43 poll
  5. Poll: What does the HN community believe about AngelGate?
    28 points by bl4k 25 poll
  6. Poll: iPhone or Android

    Do you prefer iPhone or Android as your primary mobile phone?

    28 points by danielrm26 34 poll
  7. Poll: iOS developers how many apps have you published?
    27 points by msencenb 47 poll
  8. Poll: Which Generation Are You?

    What generation do you identify with? What do you see as the defining characteristics of that generation? What about defining moments? Date ranges taken from Generations via Wikipedia.

    27 points by LogicHoleFlaw 71 poll
  9. Poll: Do you like your current job?
    27 points by ctingom 19 poll
  10. Poll: Best search engine for controversial topics?

    I was just watching Sundar Pichai explain to Congress that Google is not a monopoly. He was answering questions about Google’s censorship – “if users don’t like the results, they can use a different search engine,…

    27 points by TechBro8615 24 poll
  11. Poll: Are you excited by Diaspora?

    Based on tav's post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759330

    27 points by kgermino 44 poll
  12. Poll: How do you manage your passwords?

    I used to memorize a few passwords; mentally graded as "very secure" (for things like my Google Apps and my laptop's disk encryption password), "somewhat secure" (for services like DropBox or HipChat) and then "probably…

    27 points by malanj 58 poll
  13. Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn most?

    To complete the trinity of programming languages questions/polls, I think it would be nice to know which of the following languages fellow HN'ers want to learn most. Particulary interesting should be a comparison with…

    27 points by sb 7 poll
  14. Poll: Would you sell your startup for 5x to Google so they can kill it?

    Why would you say yes or no?

    27 points by knes 55 poll
  15. Poll: Do you work at a startup?

    For the purposes of the poll, a startup can be defined as “a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed” and revenue does not exceed $10m per year. If not, feel…

    27 points by ShaneCurran 43 poll
  16. Poll: Do you pay a patent troll?

    Does your company pay license fees to a patent troll such as Intellectual Ventures? Please only answer if you are in a position to know and your company is at risk of being targeted.

    27 points by enduser 23 poll
  17. Poll: Do you have a formal CS or a general computing degree?

    One recurrent theme, especially when talking about interviews, is the need to display some CS skill set, such as algorithm design. My degree focussed on programming, simple database design, simple network stuff. It was…

    27 points by Nick_C 43 poll
  18. Poll: Developers how often are you contacted by recruiters?

    Curious what the frequency is for other developers who get contacted by recruiters. Is it annoying enough that you've removed you contact or job info?

    27 points by louhong 47 poll
  19. Poll: How often do you deploy to production?

    How often do you deploy new versions of your code to your production server? Manually or using CI, including quick bug fixes and patches.

    27 points by chookrl 61 poll
  20. Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?
    27 points by prakash 110 poll
  21. Poll: How much of your work time is typing code?

    Also, are you happy with that percentage? How much would your target be?

    26 points by joss82 48 poll
  22. Poll: How do you browse Reddit without an excruciating experience?
    26 points by bdcs 43 poll
  23. Poll: Would You Work for Elon?

    Simple question with not so simple answers… Watching Elon gaslight current and former Twitter employees in the public square, I couldn’t help but wonder if any engineers would actually work for this guy going forward…

    26 points by vincnetas 139 poll
  24. Poll: How long is your typical visit to HN?

    The top comment on the current poll "How often do you visit HN?" suggests that there might be a big variation in how much time people spend on HN on each visit. This should help shed light on that.

    26 points by nopinsight 14 poll
  25. Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use

    Inspired by a recent post about Linen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248488#33253157 What is used, why? What's good? What's bad?

    26 points by djbusby 53 poll