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Stackoverflow 2019 Developer Survey Is Open

by billwashere on 1/24/19, 3:37 AM with 40 comments

  • by pandapower2 on 1/24/19, 7:21 AM

    >Of these options, what are your greatest challenges to productivity as a developer? Select up to 3:

    I feel like this is missing an important option. "Boring work".

    Right now I'm slogging through an unenjoyable project and finding it incredibly hard to focus and get tasks done. Its so hard to push through one difficult yet dull task knowing there is yet another difficult yet dull task right behind it.

  • by albeebe1 on 1/24/19, 5:49 AM

    Not going to lie, felt like a great deal of effort was put into not only the questions, but the multiple choice answers. Made it easy to breeze right through it.

  • by finaliteration on 1/24/19, 8:19 AM

    I enjoyed the fact that “SIGH” was one of the available responses to the question about whether or not you are your family’s “IT support person”.

  • by frereubu on 1/24/19, 8:00 AM

    "If you use security or ad-blocking plugins, you may see error messages Our third-party software provider, Qualtrics, does not work well with certain ad blockers and security software. To avoid error messages that prevent you from taking the survey, please try specifically unblocking Qualtrics in your plugin or pausing the plugin while you take the survey."

    Seems like this has the potential to skew the results quite a bit. I was going to do the survey on mobile, but wasn't sure whether the Firefox Focus content blocker would screw with things. I just hope I remember to do it later...

    Edit: And I don't really like being forced to turn off my tracker-blocking extensions.

  • by amrrs on 1/24/19, 6:05 AM

    If someone wants to see Last year survey result analyis on kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/nulldata/so-survey-insights-who-s-lef...

    Disclaimer: It's mine and top-voted kernel. I didn't win the prize money though ;)

  • by loeg on 1/24/19, 6:08 AM

    > Think back to the last time you updated your resumé, CV, or an online profile on a job site. What is the PRIMARY reason that you did so?

    Really needs an "Other" option.

  • by ykevinator on 1/24/19, 11:40 AM

    I've grown bitter of so. The hall monitors heave gotten crazy in their flagging etc. It's frustrating. I've actually turned to Reddit of all places for help now.

  • by zaarn on 1/24/19, 8:14 AM

    > What individual person do you think will have the most influence in tech in the coming year?

    Tbh, it'll be Mark Zuckerberg. In a bad way.

  • by legostormtroopr on 1/24/19, 5:57 AM

    I'd be keen to know more on the numbers of developers who've stopped contributing to StackOverflow in recent years.

    I've found them to be increasingly political and preachy, and force US opinions on politics on what is a global audience.

    I had a 20k account at some point, but after their uncoordinated and aggressive approach to the travel ban, I deleted my account.

  • by gourneau on 1/24/19, 8:43 AM

    I am most excited about the "coding music playlist".

    Can y'all please share your favorites here?

  • by nairboon on 1/24/19, 7:39 AM

    The platforms sections needs an embedded choice

  • by ddavis on 1/24/19, 5:58 AM

    My first time participating.. does the survey closing on the 12th translate to results on the 12th as well?

  • by jags-v on 1/24/19, 5:12 AM

    I like this year's Developer Survey better.

  • by saagarjha on 1/24/19, 7:04 AM

    > Have you tried turning it off and on again?

    Hmm…

  • by blakeluby on 1/24/19, 6:13 AM

    good