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Japanese Manga Cafes / Internet Cafes give you all you can drink coffee and tea for hourly pricing, and usually comes with a PC and a private booth. I'm not sur
by wodenokoto 1y ago
Japanese Manga Cafes / Internet Cafes give you all you can drink coffee and tea for hourly pricing, and usually comes with a PC and a private booth. I'm not sure how much of a thing they still are though, but they were big in the 2000s and early 10s
- mvdwoord 1y agoThis is what we had all over the world (...) when Internet Cafes were a thing. Perhaps they should come back?
- johnisgood 1y agoMost developers could not really do their own thing on a PC/laptop that is not theirs. Are they supposed to set up their development environment each time?
- mvdwoord 1y agoYou could still bring your laptop? Swap out the HDMI if you want to use the monitor...
- Yizahi 1y agoFor work oriented cafe, owners can partner with Teamviewer, license seats from it and then advertise this as a fast remote service. Iirc teamviewer requires payment only for host machine, clients can be free. Though I imagine the market for such setup would be extremely small and unprofitable.
- actionfromafar 1y agoClearly StarBucks should rent out StarBucks branded developer machines in the cloud, which you can access from home or from StarBucks terminals.
- ericcumbee 1y agoonly for JAVA
- nicce 1y agoSeems overly complicated when you could just give a plug for charger and let them use their own laptops.
- pvtmert 1y agodevcontainers & github codespaces may help, but i agree with you, each day, i would spend just setting up my stuff, to start from scratch on the next day!
- nicoburns 1y agoThe "Santander Work Cafes" (https://www.santanderbank.com/workcafe/cafe https://www.santanderbank.com/workcafe/cafe) are an excellent implementation of this.
- rich_sasha 1y agoHow interesting - so the other extreme. 0 cost on drinks, 100% time in seat cost.