Slightly off topic.

I work in an office that uses IE7. About half the internet is broken for me. I have no options to upgrade or use chrome frame. I completely understand not supporting older browsers, but please please PLEASE don't block me from your site. I don't care if the formatting is completely borked or unusable. I expect that to happen a lot and would never blame a site for it. Giving me a warning that my experience will be degraded is okay too, but keeping me off your site is rather frustrating.

For an article like this, if the formatting sucked, I might view source and at least see the text. Until the comments get going, I have no way to gather anything about the article.

So my first question when clicking through was what do you mean by popular:

Popular by number of applications they get.

I understand that this sort of post is promoting the underlying service blogging about the topic. I know it's a fairly common approach on Hacker News, and it's fine, I discover a lot of great blogs and interesting stuff that way. Not sure this really tells me much though. The statistical validity of this sample is definitely questionable so I am not sure it even works on its own terms.

Also, I suspect "Quora is basically an Indian site" might be seen as contentious, though I found the traffic stat interesting.

offtopic: while I'm sadly not surprised by yet another page that takes js gymnastics to load simple text after loads of time staring at a blank page, could somebody explain what's going on in that source code? o_0

    <span id="manifestyml" style="display:none">
      ---
    FB-PaulG.jpg: FB-PaulG-68c51e61990724176b68959e2e686ce8.jpg
    FB-PaulG/index.jpg: FB-PaulG-68c51e61990724176b68959e2e686ce8.jpg
    HR-codeeditor-screenshot.png: HR-codeeditor-screenshot-859996176c0a9ce1b8e4f1e8622128a0.png
    HR-codeeditor-screenshot/index.png: HR-codeeditor-screenshot-859996176c0a9ce1b8e4f1e8622128a0.png
    HR-homepage-screenshot.png: HR-homepage-screenshot-bce0c47541de64b962c50001bb0fce04.png
    HR-homepage-screenshot/index.png: HR-homepage-screenshot-bce0c47541de64b962c50001bb0fce04.png
    ...
    </span>

Page takes several seconds to load and then just shows a header?

Not just broken on IE7, apparently . . . .

>My hypothesis is that a majority of CS4 applicants came from India and Quora has 30.8% of their traffic from India.

Wow, I wonder what the ratio of Page hits vs posts is like for Indian IPs and how that compares with other geographic regions.

How can you guys be so dumb to expose this in your blog ? https://www.hackerrank.com/rest/contests/master/challenges?_...

Anyone else surprised to see Facebook/Twitter amongst the most popular for the B2S cohort? I would have guessed more of their allure to college-aged applicants had worn off and transferred elsewhere by now.

I have always wanted to work for Mozilla. Are they not that popular among graduates or are they not in the survey for some other reason?