Yeah I hate it when I have to pay more for a service as a European.
It might seem silly but that's the reason I cancelled my Spotify account, I didn't want to pay a 'European' premium. I hate it when they check from which country your creditcard number is - Netflix is nice that they allow you to register in a different country with a VPN & don't check the credit card country.
Don't move to Australia then. Software prices are routinely jacked up for us. At least with conversion to the euro, there's a large amount of laziness in it. With Australian software, we're often paying 50% more to double the price. At one stage it was cheaper to buy Photoshop by flying across the Pacific ocean, buying a copy in the US, and flying back to Australia.
Every time I see this I feel compelled to point out that Europe gets it worse than you, despite your complaints.
Say 100 AUD for a game. That's roughly 70 euro (which is the cost of a new PS4 game in Ireland). The median household income in Australia is 66k (AUD) or 47000 euro. The only source I can find for a median income in ireland states it at around 27000 euro. The purchasing power of an Australian in that case is far higher than an Irish person for instance.
Median income isn't the whole story. Disposable income is a better story (particularly for entertainment), and Ireland in US$24k, Australia $31k. In Germany (the most populous European country that no-one questions is in Europe) it's US$30k. France is US$29.5k. (stats from OECD). Norway, with the same size population as Ireland, is more than Australia at US$32k. Australia isn't really as far ahead of Europe as you paint it. Picking one of the poorest countries in Western Europe and using that as the baseline isn't really playing fair.
These links have the country's median household disposable income listed in the first paragraph.
Yes, if you're in Germany your programming is for Germany whether or not you have a US or German account.
The bad news is that you'll have to use a VPN to pretend to be from some other country (US) in order to get some of the shows not offered in your own country (Germany).
The good news is that you can use a VPN to register for Netflix (and pay less!) and get the same content as you would get if you registered in Germany.
The last time I checked some Netflix features (watch list?) were disabled if you are 'traveling' outside your region.
How can you see German programming in Netflix when it doesn't even exist yet in Germany? They're supposed to launch here in two weeks, but as far as I know nothing is available yet.
At what time do you come home/start working? I'm living next to work, but with 8 hours to work I don't have much time to do anything else.. start around 9, work until around 6pm (8hours + 1hour lunch) that doesn't leave much time
Request a shorter lunch - there's research out there to say that taking a long lunch makes you less productive in the afternoon.
Also, do something physical for your lunch - even if it's just walking to a shop and back.
Your evenings matter, yes you'll be more productive in the mornings but you have to go to work. The sooner you finish work, the more time you have to relax before you start work again.
I'd also ask about starting earlier or working from home or flexitime.
If you can afford the time on weekends try and work in the mornings.
I'd also force yourself to have a night or two off every week.
Build a routine, your body-clock will change and it may start to exhaust you if you change too many things too fast. So expect to work at a slower pace until you've refined your routine.
There are ~hundreds (thousands?) of VPN providers worldwide. I've seen as low as $1-3/mo -- and some which are ad sponsored and free. I haven't used them all, so I'm not sure of the specific advantages and disadvantages of each.
We have some differentiating security features vs. all existing VPN systems coming; this is just a show hn to get feedback.
We've mainly worked on the corp VPN as a service (which does internal monitoring/filtering/IDS/etc.), but at $100/mo, it's not really an option for consumers. Due to all the NSA stuff, people were asking for a consumer option.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to be one of the VCs that's named in the article.
Maybe the 'dumb vc' thinks you have what it takes to be successful as a person with the right product and that's why he/she wants to talk to you without knowing the product. If he/she reads this article you probably lost a fan.
Maybe he/she honestly just wanted to give good advice, if you think the advice sucks then you are the stupid one to meet 6 times with the VC..
I think the equity grabbing thing is a bit over rated, although it feels like that if you're starting something and want to get other people on board. Get rational and communicate.
Sometimes it's even funny, at a 2 day hacking/business event, you make something with 6 people, two of these people make 90+% of the product. 2 people just stand by the team the whole time barely contributing and 2 people (business) people, are greatly contributing to strategy.
At the end of the hacking event there is a talk about continuing with the project and starting something up, it is so obvious that it is almost not even brought up. People kinda evade the topic. Then somebody starts to talk about it and everybody quickly agrees that 50/50 split is the obvious fair way to start something.
I don't have to tell you this 'startup' didn't last that long :)
I've started some things and the 'obvious' way is always to go 50/50, but if you're doing most of the work, thinking etc it's not very motivating to continue. Not all start ups start with everybody quitting their job at the same time.
So yeah I think it's a case to case situation, if you both quit your job, have the same programming and business input then you have an awesome situation and 50/50 is great.
I had high hopes of seeing data and research (no offense, TechCrunch) to support this claim. I'm in the camp of not liking social authentication, especially when it's the only option, but I'm also a sample set of 1.
