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This is a real wildcard. HN is an educated, reasonably apolitical community. I'm really interested in whether people believe any of the following conspiracy theories to be accurate.
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Inspired by this post[0] about how work-life balance can slow down career growth, and the discussion in the comments, I wanted to create this poll to get a sense of how many hours the HN crowd typically works. 0:…
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After seeing the story "Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing" I got curious about how many open tabs people have. I have 990 tabs open in Chrome right now.
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I'd also be interested in the frequency of people who work remotely part-time.
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What is your pre-tax income and how much of your paycheck goes into savings each month? For purposes of this poll, please include both retirement and shorter term savings.
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Just out of pure curiosity, and prompted by the recent submission on sorting through 500 emails, I've made a poll to find out how much legitimate email HN readers are receiving daily. I'll make an arbitrary definition…
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Please only select one, the current version you're running, even if you have used both previously. I'm curious as to which version most of the HN Python devs are currently using.
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How many of you use ad-blocking software such as Adblock Plus? If yes, do you blanket block all ads or only certain ads (like from a certain ad network)? What kind of ads would you be willing to unblock? If you don't…
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I would also be interested to know whether this number changes much across different stages of your startup. For example, when you are close to launch, does it get harder to work?
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All this talk about health insurance, so I'm wondering what your status is.
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Which will win Ethereum or Bitcoin? I know they have potentially divergent use cases. I know "win" is ill-defined(market cap, transaction volume, # of users, nodes). Just looking for raw unscientific sentiment.
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HN is assumed. Do you talk about engineering in other places? Please vote for all that you use. Motivation: I wanted to get feedback from my past coworkers on a new product I'm building, but to my surprise only a small…
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This arose from a debate with a friend over which event would have a greater impact on one's life:
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We'd all love to run a "zero defect" culture but its impossible in a production environment. What is an acceptable number of defects to have in production? Bring up Airbrake, Exceptional, or whatever tool you use to…
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I'm curious to know what people here believe. I guess I've wondered based on a skew towards engineering whether people are opposed to a higher power or if it's actually something that makes them reflect and see that…
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Given the spike in interviewing questions, I'm curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A…
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There's enough Tablet hype and speculation at the moment to fill a billion extra large hot air balloons. Interested in seeing what people think... Any other use-cases in comments
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I'm currently organizing a public event (a YouTube gathering) and I was wondering what the community thought the best single site was for promoting the event & gathering an attendee list (i.e. let people rsvp in one…
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A few times recently I've submitted items which have quickly got a few upvotes, then even more quickly got flagged into oblivion. It's clear that while HN is an active and lively community, and my interests overlap with…
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This came up on the MicroTCP thread*. Is it reasonable to assume readers here know what it is? Personally I say yes, but who cares what I say, I want to know what everyone else here says. TCP/IP. Do you know what it…
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Knowing what you know today, would you work for Elon Musk?
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With a new generation of robots designed to work with humans on the way, a key issue in their adoption is the extent to which people would trust them - especially as much as a human doing the same task. In that context,…
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We all know that ad rates have dropped, but just how far have they gone? Please let us know what you are getting for CPM, and what network or method you are using.