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    There’s about 40 questions — mainly covering what and how you use Delimiter, what sort of professional role you have and so on. It’s all fairly standard stuff! Let us know if you have any questions about the survey, by posting them in the comments below this article, or contacting us.

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    • Entry is only open to Australian residents
    • The survey will commence Monday 28 March, 2011 and is expected to last several weeks.
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    1. Dean
      Posted 28/03/2011 at 12:44 pm | Permalink | Reply

      This is a game of skill as defined under applicable law

      That’s… interesting.

    2. David
      Posted 28/03/2011 at 12:52 pm | Permalink | Reply

      I got to question 24 and then ‘next’ took me back to question 1. Doesn’t seem to be a way to finish the survey

      • Dean
        Posted 28/03/2011 at 12:54 pm | Permalink | Reply

        Yeah, seems to happen randomly for me. I get to a question and then it takes me back to Q1. But I “Next” through all of the questions I’ve already answered (luckily it remembers my answers) and I can get through the troublesome question the second time. But then another question later on will send me back to Q1 again.

        I haven’t been able to get through the whole survey yet…

        • Posted 28/03/2011 at 1:05 pm | Permalink | Reply

          Urgh, sorry to hear this, guys — the survey is through SurveyMonkey, which I thought would be quality …

        • PointZeroOne
          Posted 28/03/2011 at 1:44 pm | Permalink | Reply

          Yeah I’d hit an answer/question that when pressing next would dump me back at the start but clicking through next to the question I was up to and selecting the answer again would allow me to proceed

    3. Posted 28/03/2011 at 1:39 pm | Permalink | Reply

      Either something has been fixed or it’s a random problem – just went through the survey with no issue

      • Dean
        Posted 28/03/2011 at 1:59 pm | Permalink | Reply

        I tried again just now and it worked OK. Maybe the initial article caused such massive load on their server that it couldn’t handle it :-)

        • Posted 28/03/2011 at 9:54 pm | Permalink | Reply

          You are only supposed to answer the questions once, :)

    4. Posted 28/03/2011 at 3:37 pm | Permalink | Reply

      Mine worked fine. Where’s my iPad?

      • Posted 28/03/2011 at 3:46 pm | Permalink | Reply

        I’ll ask the publisher :)

        • Posted 05/04/2011 at 6:17 pm | Permalink | Reply

          I would have done your survey anyway, but my continuing iPadness motivated me even further. (NextByte ran out of iPad2 before I could ring up, Apple didn’t allow them to take pre-orders, so I’m left with Yet More Waiting. *sulks*)

    5. Mark M
      Posted 28/03/2011 at 4:18 pm | Permalink | Reply

      Am I the only one that read the opening line with Professor Farnsworth’s from Futurama voice ? :)

    6. Connected public servant
      Posted 28/03/2011 at 5:06 pm | Permalink | Reply

      Nice survey! Haven’t done one that thoughtfully designed in a while.

      Your question on company’s income could do with a N/A for government (or an ‘I don’t know’, or an ‘it’s complicated’).

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