I’ve just had a thought, I think Gosling sez that there are 3 million Java coders…
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=82161&intsrc=article_pots_bot
that’s 2003…
So… given that we’ve got say 1 billion web users world wide
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
then, Ireland is like 0.004 of that… makes for 12000 Java folk from the Rep’
(as I call it)
these are Fermi estimates… but say that 5% do ‘something gamey or 3G ish‘)… then that is 600…
if 1%, then 120…
how many are here?
K
‘…if I knew then what I know now, then what’d I now know?’