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Hipster Sound – Coffee shop booster

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Re: Hipster Sound – Coffee shop booster

#52
Nice & fun! Just a quick typo: you used singular everywhere except for Paris, where you used "CaféS", you probably want to remove the S

(and from what I could gather, the tab coming at 38€, it's either quite an expensive café where you got hammered, or a 4 person meal at a "Brasserie" :-) )

Re: Hipster Sound – Coffee shop booster

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This looks cool. Also, because I'm interested: I wonder why your average HN comment section seems to generally enjoy or recommend ambient café noise, and yet "open offices" tend to be thought of so poorly. Is it that the café ambiance usually does not carry a sense of work-related stress? Does working outside of your office make ambient noise more tolerable?

> Does working outside of your office make ambient noise more tolerable? Ambient noise in a cafe is different than ambient noise in an office, in my experience. Obviously this is going to be different in each office and cafe, but I'll try to compare/contrast them. In a cafe: * (Con) The conversations of my closest neighbors, clearly-audible. * (Pro) Muted conversations of everyone in the building * (Pro, sometimes co…

Almost all of your cons (perhaps with the exceptions of the entry/exit beeps) for open offices are applicable to cafes also.
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