Re:Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?
by mati on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:34AM
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Have the same issue with Poland. We need this damn Central Europe category so we can escape the dreaded "Eastern Europe" badge... And since we are in no way Western, Central is the only way. </sarcasm>
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Re:Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?
by zalew on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:51AM
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No, we don't need any new categories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_UN_ge...
Unless we speak colloquially, then there's an infinite number of groups to qualify. The OP should use some reference to choose categories ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147290 ), his are a bit strange and subjective.
Re:Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?
by zalew on Thursday January 27, 2011 @07:54AM
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It has no official significance, just a common term, and your link proves my point. I'm from Poland and by Larousse we're not central, by Brittanica we are.
Re:Poll: Where do you work (geographically)?
by leon_ on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:44AM
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For this survey it would be nice if we had a finer granularity. It would be interesting to see where the most HN users sit in Europe. Western, eastern and "other" Europe for a population of 700+ million people is rather sub optimal.
Compare that to the amount of options for the US with its 220 mio population.
I'd propose a schema like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_...
