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This is spot on, but at least tell them to not take the spots with the outlets if they're going to visit Red Rock? How we going to work there now? Edit: Bah. I
by baguasquirrel 16y ago
This is spot on, but at least tell them to not take the spots with the outlets if they're going to visit Red Rock? How we going to work there now?
Edit: Bah. If we're going to out one coffee shop, then why not the others. There's Dana St, also in Mtn View. Peet's at across El Camino works as a spillover. Verde Tea has nice drinks but the wifi seems to block you after an hour and you can't get Google Wifi inside. The other bubble tea place across from Red Rock is open later than anything else on Castro but it's a bit dingy inside and you likewise can't pick up Google Wifi inside.
If you work late, there's the Starbucks at El Camino and Lawrence which is open till 1. Any proprietors here? We need more shops open till 1.
In Palo Alto, there's Philz, which has the best coffee I've ever had in my life. The Peets up the street is also supposed to be a decent place to hang out. There's also Mitchell Park which is nearby to both.
In 'tino, there's the Coffee Society. The Peets down the street is also a surprisingly good place to work, and the Whole Foods has free wifi. There's also some Donut shop next to the Apple HQ which never seems to close but the stuff they have there is so-so. But if you just need to get out of the apt to work, it will do.
In general, the Peets are nicer places to work but the wifi will only last an hour.
That's all the ones I know. Anyone got any others?
- whakojacko 16y agoFurther east, there is also a Coffee Society in Campbell (in the Pruneyard Shopping Center)
- rantfoil 16y agoFor a hacker I cannot imagine a more amazing gift to oneself than the gift of ever-present Internet access via Sprint/Verizon/Whatever via USB dongle or expresscard. It's ~$50/month -- but I would definitely give up lattes and buy black coffee for it.
- benmccann 16y agoOne of the best things about my Nexus One, which comes with free tethering and can act as a WiFi access point.
- Todd 16y agoVerizon also has a MiFi card.
- ora600 16y agoWhich in my experience is horribly broken.
- cpr 16y agoYes, google "Mifi disconnect" and you'll find endless stories of Mifi problems with the wifi mode (it works perfectly in dongle mode), across carriers: Verizon, Spring, Virgin Mobile. Bottom line (sad to say, since I own two): the Mifi doesn't work in wifi mode reliably. It drops offline every few minutes, breaking your ssh connections and any downloads in progress. It does reconnect within 5-10 seconds, so it sorta looks like it's working to your average undemanding browser user.
- zackattack 16y agoI personally recommend CLEAR, which works great and has 4G coverage in places that the website doesn't even say!
- wallflower 16y agoCLEAR is great except you cannot stream Netflix
- pmorici 16y agoI have Clear and stream Netflix.
- wallflower 16y agoArgh. I guess I need to edit the post to say if you are in a good coverage area (I'm not) - you can stream Netflix with no latency issues.
- pmorici 16y agoYa, it's no FIOS but With 4 bars on my modem's signal indicator Netflix usually works well. It's a little dodgy when it rains. Try moving your modem around your house and setting it at different angles. I initially had it in a position where it got three bars I moved it across the room and set it at a slightly different angle, now I get 4 bars and it's nearly twice as fast.
- philwelch 16y agoI had CLEAR back when they were called Clearwire. Many corporate name changes are designed to escape a poor reputation, and I have no doubt this is one of them. If you have CLEAR and you move to a part of town with poor reception, you drop packets. And, thanks to how TCP works, dropping packets == sabotaging your connection speed forever. And canceling my service with them was pure stress because they operate on a contract/termination fee structure. Maybe they've improved since then, and maybe it's worthwhile if you just want a mobile solution and can pay for a home internet connection on top of it, but I remain skeptical.
- baguasquirrel 16y agoEvery Peets manager in South Bay hates you now.
- moultano 16y agoOr, any Android phone running 2.2 on a carrier other than AT&T. Instant wifi hotspot.
- seiji 16y agoFree coffee: http://hackerdojo.com/ http://hackerdojo.com/
- catch23 16y agoFYI, Dojo'ers are coffee snobs. We buy green coffee and roast it. We have a good selection of different single-origin beans in our kitchen. We also have 24/7 access!
- lsc 16y agowell, we have all the equipment and a few snobs; my master plan to get others to roast beans for me daily and keep coffee on tap has largely failed, but we do have most of the equipment (we've got an espresso machine but no milk steamer... that's about all we're missing.)
- astrange 16y ago> The other bubble tea place across from Red Rock is open later than anything else on Castro but it's a bit dingy inside and you likewise can't pick up Google Wifi inside. If you mean Tea Era, that's no reason not to go - it's one of the best places in the area. Who wants coffee anyway? It's certainly not a great place to work, if only because someone will be annoyed that you're using up one of the 4 or so seats.
- drewda 16y agoTapioca Express ("TapEx" to its teenage regulars) is the one across Villa from Red Rock. I agree, it's always got a few flies buzzing around and the drinks are a bit too syrupy. Now, Tea Era, that's the good stuff, especially the cheese milk tea. Seriously.
- aarghh 16y agoThe best coffee in the South Bay is at Barefoot in Santa Clara.
- ora600 16y agoAgree. I live in MountainView and still drive there for the coffee and ambiance.
- natch 16y agoNot just in the South Bay. They are perennial winners at the annual bay area barista competition, where judging is done by other baristas, so they have a lot of cred as one of the best coffee places in California. That being said, their new layout is a step down. Their slogan is "serious coffee, happy people" but now with the new assembly-line-style counter setup the people seem less happy.
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