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  1. Poll: How long for a top quartile programmer to be proficient in a new language?

    I'm not a programmer (unless you count my Fortran 77 experience from my undergrad days), but it seems to me that programming languages have a half life of about 3 years. So I'm wondering, are there benchmarks, rules of…

    7 points by fnazeeri 5 poll
  2. Poll: Does the use of the word 'engineer' instead of 'developer' frustrate you?

    Recently I've noticed a surprisingly large number of developers becoming increasingly annoyed at the use of ‘engineer’ in place of ‘developer'. The argument usually centres around the idea that the title of 'engineer'…

    7 points by Peroni 2 poll
  3. Poll: Will this recession affect Moore's Law?

    A posting earlier about slowing desktop sales made me think. If the recession gets much worse, or if it's already that bad and my head is in the sand, could this slow down Moore's Law? We like to think ML is a fact of…

    7 points by geuis 14 poll
  4. Poll: What are the main reasons why you upvote stories?

    Just curious.

    7 points by _pius 0 poll
  5. Poll: Allman or K&R Indentation?

    Just wondering what HN prefers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style

    7 points by pushingbits 8 poll
  6. Poll: What phone OS do you have?

    Hackers are often good indicators of where mainstream is going in a few years. I'm interested in the break down of phone OS choice among this group. So which do you have?

    7 points by krschultz 5 poll
  7. Poll: If it was 1995, what idea would you work on?

    Knowing what we know now, if you could go back to 1995, what idea would you like to work on ? Assume that you have all resources needed (money/talent etc.). I am obviously listing the hottest stuff that changed the…

    7 points by codegeek 11 poll
  8. Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use, and why?

    Previous discussions: * Ask HN: Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23816007 (2020) * Ask HN: Which Linux distribution do you use? -…

    7 points by theli0nheart 4 poll
  9. Poll: What is your startup's legal status?(LLC/C-Corp etc)

    Which option did you choose and why?

    7 points by vaksel 1 poll
  10. Poll: Which programming languages have you mastered, and how many ?

    According to http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/ there are 1304 different programming languages and variations! I'm not going to try to find out how many options the poll system allows you to place. DSLs have been…

    7 points by jacquesm 27 poll
  11. Poll: How do you respond to addwalls

    When you encounter an adwall, what do you do?

    7 points by jacquesm 11 poll
  12. Poll: Do you prefer to "flag" or "star" items for action later?

    Had an interesting debate on if users "get" the concept of starring/flagging items for later.<p>In my new app you can "star" news articles and they appear in a separate "starred" view. She thinks it should be…

    7 points by pclark 12 poll
  13. Poll: Do you want to go back to work?

    When a vaccine is widely available are you looking forward to going back to work?

    7 points by stevenhubertron 3 poll
  14. Poll: Do you have a ham radio license?

    Given the recent discussion about ham radio, just curious to know where HN'er stand vis-a-vis ham radio licensing?

    7 points by mindcrime 9 poll
  15. Poll: Which programming language do you use most often?

    What is your "daily driver" when it comes to getting work done?

    7 points by pg_bot 5 poll
  16. Poll: What do you use for dependency management in iOS?
    7 points by jamesjyu 1 poll
  17. Poll: Do you lurk or do you post?

    Curious about the ratio here, and the poll mechanism seemed like a good way to get an estimate. Wouldn't want to force lurkers to actually say something...

    7 points by aston 12 poll
  18. Poll: What % of your salary are bonuses?

    Let's ignore 1-time bonuses like sign-on bonuses. What % of your salary are bonuses, typically for you?

    7 points by altdataseller 0 poll
  19. Poll: Star Wars or Star Trek?

    What's your poison?

    7 points by vaksel 14 poll
  20. Poll: Would you pay for a RSS reader?

    I am planning to work on a RSS feeder and wanted to get level of interest in the HN community.<p>Free : http://i.imgur.com/NMCuh.jpg Paid : http://i.imgur.com/BWA6y.jpg<p>In free version, user enters a…

    7 points by aDemoUzer 8 poll
  21. Poll: HN San Diego -- do you want a mid-month meeting?

    This is in response to a email thread on the SDHN group (http://groups.google.com/group/sd-hackernews/browse_thread/thread/28843ae501dd7254)

    7 points by niels_olson 5 poll
  22. Poll: A browser without tabs?

    I'm really getting annoyed a little more everyday with browser tabs. They don't seem to fit in my workflow anymore. I have a couple tabs that should stay alive and at the tip of my finger (gmail, slack, HN, ...) and…

    7 points by spolu 41 poll
  23. Poll: What level general education did you complete ?

    Please upvote only one item, it is assumed that if you have a PhD that you went to grade school at some point.

    7 points by jacquesm 6 poll
  24. Poll: Minorities, how often are you discriminated against in your career?

    And more importantly, what can other people do to help counteract this discrimination? A lot of discrimination is done subconsciously, so how can we get rid of this nature that we inherit? This poll was inspired by this…

    7 points by solipsist 6 poll
  25. Poll: Is HN "Recovering"?

    It seems since yesterday's PG Ask HN the quality of posts has increased significantly. I'm definitely not a empirical source, so what do you think?

    7 points by lukeqsee 2 poll