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Poll: Where abouts are you hackers from?

30 points by wihon ↗ HN
I'm curious about where HN readers hail from. I get the feeling that most of you guys and gals are from the US. But I might be wrong. Apologies if this has come up before - that must have been before my time. :-) Country choices are based on google analytics data from my ruby newbie blog.

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aitoehigie
Nigeria
mahmud
Somalia. Greetings from the other side :-)

[Edit: oh, this is about where you are? I am representin' Packerland.]

RiderOfGiraffes
Depends on what you mean by "From". Where was I born? Where did I grow up? Where did I go to school? College? University? Where was my first job? Other jobs? Where am I now?

There are five different answers lurking there, depending on what you mean.

wihon
I think I meant where you are at the moment, as I get the impression that hackers often move to where the work is. But good point - I should have been clearer. :-)
mahmud
You will get far less interesting answers that way, given how we all tend to gravitate towards a few countries, and Imperial San Francisco ;-)
Synthetase
Excluding the most populous country on the planet seems more than a mere oversight...
wihon
I just creamed off the top five countries from my google analytics data. Completely arbitrary - but I thought not completely irrelevant, as only people interested in programming would be likely to visit my site. Maybe I should have thought a bit harder...?
jacquesm
All the rest of Europe is 'other' ?
wihon
There are countries all over the world populated by great hackers - may I refer you to an earlier reply (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640665) to explain my (admittedly hasty) reasoning for choosing these in particular. So far though, the US is definitely dominating the list...but that might be because most Europeans (myself included) should probably be tucked up in bed around now.
jacquesm
I'm in Europe and definitely not tucked in (2:20 am here).
wihon
Heh - good work! Hacking away as we speak?
jacquesm
Yep... with the occasional distraction. (HN, mostly)
lancewiggs
New Zealand
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lindbergh
There is an obvious flaw to this poll: hackers don't share the same time zone. For example, right now, it's still very early in the morning in India.
wihon
That's a problem with posting on HN in general - I often find (admittedly IMHO) interesting links and post them in the morning, european time, but because most of HN's readers are from north america they often get largely ignored - and thus have slipped down into oblivion by the time the americans log in. Or maybe I just post crap links...
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mkramlich
I was born in the USA. I live in Ameri-duh. Sometimes my mind is in Brazil. (cue theme music)
mattwdelong
Born in Canada, but just moved to West Michigan and love it.
krsna
Canada, born and raised.