The SF Hacker Loft

Re:The SF Hacker Loft by hparra on Friday March 25, 2011 @03:40PM (#2369991)

It's this "let's hack together" mentality that seems to be lacking in Southern California, where so many schools & companies still insist on cubicles. Time to take the train up to SF...

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by dweekly on Friday March 25, 2011 @05:01PM (#2370343)

There are a bunch of people in Santa Monica who are looking at starting a Hacker Dojo...

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by billpaetzke on Friday March 25, 2011 @06:21PM (#2370592)

Sweet! I would be all over that. There's really only one good coworking space there: CoLoft. But it's marketed to all freelance/remote workers--not just hackers. Would be nice to get a dedicated hacker place.

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by thesethings on Friday March 25, 2011 @11:54PM (#2371309)

Not sure if it meets your criteria, but there http://blog.crashspace.org in Culver City. I'm up in Portland, but have admired it from afar. Seems to have some great events, especially lots of hardware hacking.

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by haploid on Friday March 25, 2011 @03:49PM (#2370037)

I suspect it's because we in SoCal prefer actually getting work done instead of being trendy and being seen hanging out with other trendy people doing trendy things.

Although I do exclude certain portions of LA and Hollywood from this description.

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by acgourley on Friday March 25, 2011 @04:02PM (#2370078)

It's not that people disagree entirely, it's just your tone.

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by technomancy on Friday March 25, 2011 @07:35PM (#2370805)

I hacked in SoCal for a few years, and I can't remember seeing any of the "getting stuff done" attitude during my time there.

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by haploid on Friday March 25, 2011 @04:36PM (#2370235)

My comment is very tribalist in nature( e.g. my region is superior to your region ), and I fully expected the downvotes.

Regardless, it does reflect much of what I see in the insular SF startup culture, even if it's based entirely on my anecdotal evidence.

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by jackowayed on Friday March 25, 2011 @05:12PM (#2370383)

If you knew you were phrasing it unproductively (if the way you phrase it causes a valid point to get downvoted, that's unproductive), why not change the phrasing? E.g. "That mentality may be trendy these days, but I've found that the open office space approach can make it hard to find time to really focus and get things done."

Still gets your point across, but presents it in a less antagonistic way, leading to productive discussion rather than downvotes.

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by sukuriant on Friday March 25, 2011 @05:50PM (#2370496)

Shock value. Anger causes people to think.

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Re:The SF Hacker Loft by jackowayed on Friday March 25, 2011 @05:57PM (#2370525)

1) Hacker News is not about getting people to think through shock value. And I think a lot of us would leave if it were.

2) Anger about grave moral atrocities causes people to think. Anger about someone antagonistically phrasing a denouncement of their working style causes people to write you off as a troll and move on with their lives.

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