thanks for posting this. I agree fully. The place I frequent is very small, so one person taking up a lot of space can be really annoying. The worst is when two people push two tables together (tables meant for 3-4 people!) and sprawl out over them.
I also find it difficult to get certain kinds of work done in a coffee shop or other public place. I always seem to get this feeling that people are watching over my shoulder, despite the fact that nobody actually is. That feeling is somewhat unsettling, and makes it difficult for me to concentrate on things like code.
So, for me at least, coffee shop time is 'thinking' time. Time to enjoy the brew, do the crossword, let the mind go wild, and write down notes of ideas that pop into my head.
> Is there any particular reason you use Alfred vs Spotlight?
Edit: I'm not the OP.
Alfred has a few options like find and open which allow you to directly open files. It seems more minimalist than spotlight. You can customize it a little better IMHO (they have a full version that has more features). And finally, you can do google searches and a few other web-related queries directly from alfred. Overall I would highly recommend Alfred.
Why go through the effort? When I end up on an NY Times page, I just close it because I know they're going to make me log in. This just gives me more incentive to not click on NY Times links.
i'm glad someone else posted this. i do the same thing. i don't know why, but it annoys to no end to be forced to log in when i've clicked through to an article from somewhere. i'm sure that i am in the minority, and so my opinion does not count, but it really has made me realize just how little i care about reading some of the articles that a simple login dissuades me from actually reading them. i have a feeling that once the paywall limit is hit, far fewer people will then the nyt imagines will be tempted to pay. they may just close the tab and move on with their lives. that's fine, of course, the nytimes doesn't have to cater to people who don't value their product, but it does pave the way towards a more specialized, targeted product. people happily subscribe to news sites about minor league baseball or the franchise restaurant business. we'll see what happens here.
Something like this might be good for a smaller business with machines on-site. You could replace a rack of beefy heat generating boxes with a few of these and save on power+AC bills.
From a data center perspective, I think it has some merit too. If they produce the machines in small little blade-type servers that you can just plug into a box, wouldn't that simplify maintenance? And for availability, if a box dies, it doesn't take down 20 different vms with it.
