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Does the World Cup matter?

12 points by montanalow 16y ago

nanijoe 16y ago
I for one must have watched at least 50 of the 64 games, so I did not need the graphs to know that the World Cup matters.
SkyMarshal 16y ago
"It’s interesting that you can see after we were eliminated by Ghana, things picked up a bit, but still didn’t quite make it back to normal. This might be because we have more international users than members in the US." It's probably also because US fans didn't just stop watching the WC after the US was eliminated. Just like everyone else in the world, they watched the rest of the tournament as well.
- metellus 16y ago
  US soccer fans didn't stop watching after the US was eliminated, but there are a ton of people who only care about soccer every four years that stopped paying attention as soon as we lost. I can't count the number of times I read/heard "now can we stop pretending to care about soccer?" after we got knocked out.
reader5000 16y ago
I can't tell if this post is facetious or not. People who watch the world cup at bars are "hooligans" and you're "surprised" they live in your neighborhood of "otherwise respectable people"? And the conclusion of this post is that the world cup "matters" because of a statistically insignificant drop in your company's highly skewed sampling of productivity data? Only on HN.
mjijackson 16y ago
Yes, but not for any of the reasons that RescueTime said it does.
- diN0bot 16y ago
  mos def. it's all about unification.
tseabrooks 16y ago
I write embedded software for TVs and have 2 40+inch TVs on my desk (in addition to my monitors) we watched every game on almost every TV in the office.
sailormoon 16y ago
What an obnoxious article. Of course the world cup "matters", it only had about 3 billion viewers of the final for fuck's sake. If that isn't "mattering" then I'd love to know what is. And I can't even begin to fathom the level of smeghead you'd need to descend to to start judging what "matters" or not based on your silly little graphs. I'd never work for a company that tracked me like that.
samratjp 16y ago
Doesn't rescuetime take note of what's running as the most active process anyways? I bet when people were watching the world cup on their rescuetime installed computer, that window is not always active and would have it in the background or a second monitor, which means it's hard to predict anyways. Moreover, obviously there are more football fans in europe and the good games were on during evening (GMT'ish) by when most would probably be home or at a pub anyways.

12 points by montanalow 16y ago

I for one must have watched at least 50 of the 64 games, so I did not need the graphs to know that the World Cup matters.

SkyMarshal 16y ago

"It’s interesting that you can see after we were eliminated by Ghana, things picked up a bit, but still didn’t quite make it back to normal. This might be because we have more international users than members in the US." It's probably also because US fans didn't just stop watching the WC after the US was eliminated. Just like everyone else in the world, they watched the rest of the tournament as well.

metellus 16y ago
US soccer fans didn't stop watching after the US was eliminated, but there are a ton of people who only care about soccer every four years that stopped paying attention as soon as we lost. I can't count the number of times I read/heard "now can we stop pretending to care about soccer?" after we got knocked out.

reader5000 16y ago

I can't tell if this post is facetious or not. People who watch the world cup at bars are "hooligans" and you're "surprised" they live in your neighborhood of "otherwise respectable people"? And the conclusion of this post is that the world cup "matters" because of a statistically insignificant drop in your company's highly skewed sampling of productivity data? Only on HN.

mjijackson 16y ago

Yes, but not for any of the reasons that RescueTime said it does.

diN0bot 16y ago
mos def. it's all about unification.

tseabrooks 16y ago

I write embedded software for TVs and have 2 40+inch TVs on my desk (in addition to my monitors) we watched every game on almost every TV in the office.

sailormoon 16y ago

What an obnoxious article. Of course the world cup "matters", it only had about 3 billion viewers of the final for fuck's sake. If that isn't "mattering" then I'd love to know what is. And I can't even begin to fathom the level of smeghead you'd need to descend to to start judging what "matters" or not based on your silly little graphs. I'd never work for a company that tracked me like that.

samratjp 16y ago

Doesn't rescuetime take note of what's running as the most active process anyways? I bet when people were watching the world cup on their rescuetime installed computer, that window is not always active and would have it in the background or a second monitor, which means it's hard to predict anyways. Moreover, obviously there are more football fans in europe and the good games were on during evening (GMT'ish) by when most would probably be home or at a pub anyways.