> Sure they happen. But what is the basis for assuming so so matter-of-factly in this case?
I can't help you there as I wasn't the one that made that comment.
> If you ask me I'd expect SV to have higher vim/emacs penetration since it's been tech central since before the invention of the terminal.
You could make similar arguments against SV: vim was written by a European (Bram Moolenaar) and GNU emacs was widely popularised by a European OS (Linux). Sadly local statistical trends are rarely that simple to explain (and if we're honest, the results of these polls are anything but trustworthy to begin with)
> I can't help you there as I wasn't the one that made that comment.
But you're totally derailing my thread as that is the entire point of my comment. The OP presented it like some sort of foregone conclusion that SV would obviously skew to Sublime. Why!? I am not trying to make a claim that A) geographical variances don't exist or B) SV over-represents vim / emacs (that was merely a wild guess, not meant to state a position, just meant to demonstrate that intuitively the OP's argument makes no sense).
To be honest, I think you're being a tad argumentative. All the former poster said was the was "I'm sure that there's a bit of selection bias going on." Which is actually a very fair comment as polling at set times when only a specific region is active will generate some selection bias. He didn't state that it's a forgone conclusion that vi/emacs is unpopular in SV. If anything, he was just stating the obvious about how not everyone is on the same timezone and thus around to vote.
And accusing me of "totally derailing [your] thread" when it's neither your thread and nor am I going off topic, is rather childish. I appreciate you wanted pyre to expand on his comments, but let's not descend into hair-pulling just because someone else happens to side with a comment that you presumably misinterpreted (and I'm making that presumption because you latter agreed with his comment when I reworded it).
I can't help you there as I wasn't the one that made that comment.
> If you ask me I'd expect SV to have higher vim/emacs penetration since it's been tech central since before the invention of the terminal.
You could make similar arguments against SV: vim was written by a European (Bram Moolenaar) and GNU emacs was widely popularised by a European OS (Linux). Sadly local statistical trends are rarely that simple to explain (and if we're honest, the results of these polls are anything but trustworthy to begin with)