The French cafe is dying

Re:The French cafe is dying by jcl on Monday November 24, 2008 @02:17PM (#375198)

The guidelines say: "What to Submit: [...] "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

If you wanted to stretch the article to hacker/startup-related topics:

- The eroding economy means that more people are spending time at home, to the extent that communal watering holes are closing. Hence, there is a need for newer, cheaper ways for communities to interact.

- If the trend crosses the ocean, we may see closing coffeeshops, which serve as a gathering place for many hackers and entrepreneurial types.

(And it would seem PG is uniquely situated to define what does and doesn't relate to Hacker News... :) )

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Re:The French cafe is dying by bprater on Monday November 24, 2008 @03:17PM (#375325)

I spend nearly everyday in a cafe doing part of my work. I really enjoy the time sucking down a coffee and people watching when I'm not hacking.

It has stayed busy here, I couldn't even find a table when I came in for lunch the other day. I don't know what this means about the local economy, but I would be sad if this place disappeared.

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Re:The French cafe is dying by brk on Monday November 24, 2008 @02:29PM (#375221)

OK, so then you've pretty much satisfied my worry that there was some insanely obvious hackerish news in this post and verified that it is merely interesting on some obscure level.

Thanks.

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