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  1. Poll: What is your primary production server operating system

    The server-side counterpart to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786674 When in doubt, select the one where most of the application logic lives. If you have a dozen cache servers running brand A in front of one…

    59 points by rbanffy 15 poll
  2. Poll: How many Bitcoins do you have?

    Given the steady stream of Bitcoin stories being posted here (guilty!), I'm interested to know whether the HN crowd has literally bought in or if it's just a technically interesting topic. What's your involvement, in…

    59 points by LVB 99 poll
  3. Poll: How much time on average do you exercise in a week?
    59 points by Victerius 106 poll
  4. Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?

    Following this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595594 What is the highest educational qualification that you have completed (i.e., met all requirements and passed)? As different countries and schools use…

    58 points by naish 135 poll
  5. Poll: What are the Meyers-Briggs personality types of HN?

    Interested to see what the cross section of hackers and entrepreneurs that read HN are. I found my type to be dead on accurate. Test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

    58 points by hop 81 poll
  6. Poll: Are you looking for an exit, or building a lifestyle business?

    The most visible stories on HN seem to be about startups that are looking for an exit at some point. But I know that many people on HN are quite happily building businesses they intend to run for the foreseeable future.…

    58 points by japhyr 55 poll
  7. Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
    58 points by rglullis 121 poll
  8. Poll: Pythonic startups: what web framework do you use?
    57 points by wensing 75 poll
  9. Poll: Where do you stand with regards to SOPA/PIPA?

    It might seem like a silly question, but after talking to a few people in the tech industry, I have spoken to a few supporters of SOPA/PIPA. I am curious if there are supporters who may not be speaking out due to it not…

    57 points by elliottcarlson 37 poll
  10. Poll: How much do you sleep?

    On the average, how much sleep do you get per day?

    57 points by pmoriarty 57 poll
  11. Poll: Do you smoke marijuana?

    I'm curious to know how canabis affects hacking abilities.

    57 points by BigCanOfTuna 104 poll
  12. Poll: How many bitcoins have you lost with MtGox shutdown?

    If you only had credit and no bitcoins, estimate the number of bitcoins you'd have been able to buy at the last known price (1 BTC = $135)

    56 points by k-i-m 35 poll
  13. Poll: What book should I write?

    I keep some personal notes for areas that I work in, which could be rewritten into books -- in a tech self-publishing style. Which book idea would you be most interested in reading? (You can vote for multiple... and…

    56 points by mjburgess 41 poll
  14. Poll: Hackernews Meetup: Stuttgart, Germany

    Hi! Since we figured that at some people here ought to be from somewhere, germany, we thought a bit about starting a hn-meetup in stuttgart ( which should be well reachable for most people in that area ). We would like…

    56 points by derwildemomo 53 poll
  15. Poll: How many Facebook accounts do you have?

    There appears to be plenty of anecdotes going around implying that most people have more than one Facebook account, but Facebook's own statistics seem to indicate that most of its users are active. As more and more…

    55 points by Aloisius 62 poll
  16. Poll: What databases does your company use?

    daniel_levine has submitted this poll twice before, and the results are always interesting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684620 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411937 Leave a comment for ones I forgot to…

    54 points by smilliken 83 poll
  17. Poll: What is your primary programming language?

    Interested in how it breaks down on HN. Add/upvote missing choices in the comments. I added Ruby-on-Rails as a separate item to compare it with non-ROR Ruby.

    54 points by johnyzee 97 poll
  18. Poll: What's your preferred work environment? (private/shared office, openspace)

    There's a discussion going on in a thread about work at Microsoft [1] regarding the preferred work environment; people seem to have different opinions on this matter, so I wonder what the bottom line is. What do you…

    54 points by egor83 60 poll
  19. Poll: Devs, Have You Used oDesk or eLance?

    I'm curious to see how many people have used (or attempted to use) these types of sites to find freelance/contract work.

    53 points by ghempton 50 poll
  20. Poll: Where are you from?

    This site has many entrepreneurs which is what attracted me to it in the first place. But I feel that there's an important difference between the start-ups done by many here and by me and a friend: we're doing it in…

    53 points by lucumo 247 poll
  21. Poll: what smartphone do you use as your primary smartphone?
    53 points by plg 87 poll
  22. Poll: How much do you trust Google?

    People must have varying levels of trust towards google, the amount of data they have combined with all the personal information from search history and gmail is staggering. How does that affect your trust of google, do…

    52 points by jacquesm 51 poll
  23. Poll: Are you getting an iPad?

    Now that the details are out, are you going to get one?

    52 points by aditya 151 poll
  24. Poll: Given the opportunity would you work at Google?

    It is mid 2011 and Google has just kicked off another attempt in the social scene. They are thriving as a company and there appears to be no end in sight. We have now accrued a wealth of information on google, their…

    52 points by chuhnk 81 poll
  25. Poll: How many programmers don't know about bit-wise operations?

    Recently this item was submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5506458 It's simple, clean, clear, and explains the first steps in elementary bit-wise operations. For me, I learned this within hours, if not…

    52 points by ColinWright 81 poll