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Comment by Dorian-Marie | Hacker News Reader

So he got food, water, shower and toilets from Google's office.

He only used his van as a sleeping place.

He should definitely do an AMA:

    What about Internet access?
    What about the cold? Sleeping bags? Isolation inside the van?
    What about the hot? Air conditioning?

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Internet access?

At Google HQ?

Being an employee?

...no clue :(

What about the NSFW stuff? I guess you could hook up a wifi access point and tunnel your connection through to a VPN.

if you can find it with google, its prob okay..

In fact, there's so much NSFW stuff floating around the web that I had to sign a form when I joined Google that said I won't sue Google for being exposed to porn during work.

Nobody cares if you click a link to porn site. In many cases, it might even be a part of your work. ("Dang, porn again, this query shouldn't show porn!")

Regular California apartments don't have air conditioning anyway.

AFAIK it's only in SF they don't. Everywhere else in California is properly hot.

Living in Los Angeles as a college student for five years, none of my apartments had air conditioning. Sure, some houses had it... but even in LA it's a bit of a luxury.

Same goes for the homes of everyone I knew in Lake Tahoe, where I grew up. The climate's similar to the bay during the summer, but it's still (partially) in California. ;)

Born and grown up in Oklahoma, and living in Texas (Austin from '96-04, Houston for the past ten years) living somewhere without AC seems so bizarre. What if you like it cooler than the weather permits?

Heck, I have central AC in my house here, and I keep the house generally at 75, but have a window AC in my bedroom that lets me crank it down to 66-68 in there.

yes, it sucks without ac.

in california, it's the older buildings that aren't fitted for it. most new buildings have it.

i live in an old building (built in 50s) and a year ago i finally couldn't stand it any longer and bought a floor standing unit that i vent out the window. it's nice.

Nope; plenty of apartments in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and Mountain View don't have air conditioning.

I lived in one in Menlo Park that I wished had air conditioning...

Heh, heh. San Diego is pretty temperate and many of the houses were properly constructed--they don't rely on air conditioning, so you can shrug off the 88* summer days. High ceilings, copious windows and balconies... Slide those doors and windows open, revel in the near-constant ocean breeze, never sweat. Until persistent heat and high humidity (relatively high, still laughable compared to the southern states I hail from) struck southern California year 'round the past few years. Many of my neighbors are installing air conditioning after living without it for 28+ years.

We'll see how El Nino ruins things for us holdouts.

Every apartment I've had in Southern California has had air conditioning.

Cellular for internet, if the wireless doesn't reach (and Google has pretty good wireless outside on much of the campus).

> What about Internet access?

Probably wi-fi

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