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nice, whats the internet connection in a place like that like ? :)
50 Mbit down, 5 Mbit up, 75 euros / month.
wow, that should work well :)
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I have a little farm-house at the end of a dead end street. No traffic, nearest neighbor 100 meters and he's doesn't own a leafblower. Clear view of the fields in three directions for the next 5 miles or so, 20,000 sq ft lot. It's been up for sale for 2 years, if you're interested ;) http://www.funda.nl/koop/oudezijl/huis-4510315-oudezijl-1/fo... Ideal spot for quiet hacking and that new YC EU headquarters!
Wow, if I had the money, I would totally buy that place...
One of the ideas I had to do with it is convert it into a start-up kick-off resort, alternatively a hacker space. But it's far away from where I live now (200+Km). Selling it is quite painful, I put tons of work into that place, here are all the pictures of the renovations:
http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/buildings/neatspot/dscf1316.jpg...
Driving there once every month to maintain it is quite a bit of overhead, and my s.o. is a city girl, hence the sale.
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#173It's so true. I can do routine work with noise, but not the kind that requires insight. The sad thing is that noise is yet another example of the phenomenon of "the tragedy of the commons." Which means things tend to get noisier and noisier. In fact, what has surprised me most about living in Palo Alto is how noisy it is. You'd think living in the suburbs would at least be quiet. It is on weekends. But the problem wi…
I have a little farm-house at the end of a dead end street. No traffic, nearest neighbor 100 meters and he's doesn't own a leafblower. Clear view of the fields in three directions for the next 5 miles or so, 20,000 sq ft lot. It's been up for sale for 2 years, if you're interested ;) http://www.funda.nl/koop/oudezijl/huis-4510315-oudezijl-1/fo... Ideal spot for quiet hacking and that new YC EU headquarters!
If anyone is looking for houses in quiet locations I can recommend mountain bothies in Scotland - these are open houses (they are completely free to use) in some amazing locations:
http://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/
Power and internet access are slightly problematical but to read and think they are great.
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#174It's so true. I can do routine work with noise, but not the kind that requires insight. The sad thing is that noise is yet another example of the phenomenon of "the tragedy of the commons." Which means things tend to get noisier and noisier. In fact, what has surprised me most about living in Palo Alto is how noisy it is. You'd think living in the suburbs would at least be quiet. It is on weekends. But the problem wi…
I have a little farm-house at the end of a dead end street. No traffic, nearest neighbor 100 meters and he's doesn't own a leafblower. Clear view of the fields in three directions for the next 5 miles or so, 20,000 sq ft lot. It's been up for sale for 2 years, if you're interested ;) http://www.funda.nl/koop/oudezijl/huis-4510315-oudezijl-1/fo... Ideal spot for quiet hacking and that new YC EU headquarters!
What is this YC EU headquarters you are talking about?
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#175It'd be interesting to plot Distraction vs. Noise Level, because while it's clear that Zero Noise maps nicely to Zero Distraction, I've noticed that Near Constant Noise also maps to Zero Distraction.
I used to live on Plaza del Castillo in Pamplona, backing on to one of the main bar streets in town. Friday and Saturday nights were pretty loud, even after closing time, with random whooping groups wandering past at intervals until nearly daylight. We had a windowless room in the center of the apartment we'd dubbed "The Bombshelter" to sleep in on nights like this.
But during San Fermin, things would kick up a few orders of magnitude. The party would crank up on a Sunday and go non-stop for 8 solid days. There were no more random groups to be identified, just a constant insane roar. I recall seeing three marching bands collide in the midst of a swarm of thousands of people directly under our bedroom balcony, at 3 in the morning on a Wednesday. They were playing but you couldn't really hear them from 20 feet up from all the other noise.
You'd think that week would be impossible, but it wasn't. Quite the opposite. I slept like a baby (even on the nights when I hadn't spent any time down among those crowds yelling and spilling wine). The noise was constant and even. No spikes could penetrate it, so the mind could relax and sleep soundly. It was actually kind of nice.
I notice the same thing on planes, and in loud, crowded coffee shops. There are lots of people talking, but little risk of anybody talking to me, so it's all just background noise. No spikes, so my brain can filter it out. I've done some of my best work in those places.
Strange.
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I wonder if the majority of the noise can be snuffed by using a battery powered electric motor, or if it's the fans that generate most of the sound... A Silent leafblower sounds like a potential invention.
You'd make a lot more money by inventing the silent vacuumcleaner.
I don't think it would be that hard to invent. What's hard is making it silent and compact.
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A mild level of ambient noise is proven to increase creative cognition aka make you a better CREATIVE thinker. Just saying http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665048 from coffitvity.com
I usually do my best work with music, street noise and chatter from the TV at the same time. The more variety, the better.
I also like a mix of different types of noise. I actually built a little site to mix ambient noises together [1].
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#179Some people can write with noises but I cannot stand it!
I keep on reading the sentence, over and over again.
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#180headphones. white noise.