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Re:What technologies are HackerNews people using by minimaxir on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:52PM (#8700537)
> All answers will be analyzed and published

If you're planning to make a blog post of "which are the best technologies?", note that the answers here will be heavily biased and should not be used as an accurate indicator of popularity.

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Re:What technologies are HackerNews people using by sbastidasr on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:58PM (#8700576)
Actually, you can never use "popular" to find the "best" of something because they aren't related.

However, a "What technologies people on Hacker News use" can be a possible outcome.

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Re:What technologies are HackerNews people using by minimaxir on Thursday December 04, 2014 @01:07PM (#8700635)
This still hits selection bias unless you get a sufficiently large sample.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

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