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2008 Git User's Survey (survs.com)
14 points by defunkt 526 days ago | 8 comments


7 points by sofal 526 days ago | link

Question #1 should be: Do you have an hour?

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3 points by ionfish 526 days ago | link

That's quite an exaggeration. It only takes fifteen or twenty minutes, unless you write short essays whenever a textarea appears.

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3 points by qhoxie 526 days ago | link

In case people were wondering, you can submit when ever you wish. I got through as much as I could afford to and left the rest blank. It still takes it.

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1 point by jdstrickler 525 days ago | link

If you're thinking, 'Boy, to finish this I'm gonna need a cup of coffee, but those Git people will surely appreciate my finishing all 65 questions', stop right there.

"Your session has expired because you were inactive for more than an hour. You may return to your account."

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1 point by jnareb 524 days ago | link

This supposedly got corrected. Session cookie expiration is now 3 hours, and page uses JavaScript to keep cookie fresh, so it shouldn't timeout if you keep it open.

And you can always submit it, and go back to it later to fill the rest.

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2 points by jnareb 526 days ago | link

You can always skip some questions, which IIRC is stated upfront. Or if you don't mind it leaving a cookie you can submit partially filled survey, and return to it and fill the rest of it later (which was stated in the message after filling and submitting the survey).

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1 point by Viper 526 days ago | link

Same. I'm willing to spend five minutes not thirty.

If there are that many questions then they don't know what they are asking for and have no clue what to do with the data.

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1 point by brendanity 526 days ago | link

Way too frickin' long. Got to 27, and saw a grand old table. Yeah, like I'm filling that one out.

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