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"Yeah, well, I guess that is a bit too long to be a poll entry.

Although this is "just" a poll it isn't meaningless.

This poll exemplifies the problem with all of these polls: it doesn't say what it's measuring.

", "What if too many people give implausible answers, can it be corrected for or will the poll be junked?

+1 to the non-existent poll entry that says:"I know C thoroughly, though I barely ever use it these days.

Total bitcoins in existence ~12MBitcoins claimed to be owned by people participating in this poll ~35M

In fact, I can predict right now that the winner of this poll will be the most commonly-used language which isn't widely considered to be "nice".

This was not a referendum, nor even a proper opinion poll - just a partisan petition.

Any time one client writes into the database and another reads it, you have to poll, since the DB won't give you notifications.

I don't think downvoting/upvoting should be a poll on whether someone agrees with a message; it's a decision of interesting/unhelpful.

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls.

Today it is feasible to directly poll everybody about every issue, so we no longer need the proxy.

Because a random subset of fanboyish social networking addicts in the follower list of the kind of person who finds this stuff interesting enough to create a poll, is a representative sample of the average user.