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No worries. Indeed direct debit would be awesome - at least for the marginal subset of "companies doing business in Germany"

That may be true for you & me, but probably not relevant to the millions of PEBKAC internet users out there, who can't even tell IE from FF.

n.b. we were talking about DIRECT DEBIT (which is something else entirely from debit cards). You basically allow a company to directly withdraw money from your bank account (assuming sufficient funds on the account)

I found a few of their examples had errors in them. Plus a general dislike towards the Samwer brothers. (I know that this shouldn't affect business)

Very good point there! Sadly we (as usual) have found our own way of doing things :-/

Oh man... I love that Stripe is finally coming to Europe.

BUT seriously (going on a disappointed rant here): Belgium & the Netherlands get into private beta and Germany gets nothing? I mean: Come on. BE + NL together have 27m people - Germany has some 80m AND a world-class economy. I don't want to bash on our neighbors (God knows we've done that one or two times in the past), I just want me some Stripe.

I know that the delay is probably because of some ridiculous red tape in Germany. :-(

tl;dr: Please absolve us from PayMill & the Samwer brother

Either that was

a) one hell of a marketing stunt to launch your book on the same day as Stripe launching in the UK OR

b) you are one lucky man!

Anyway: Godspeed with your launch!

Believe me, I am empathetic to the pain this is causing you. I can understand the anger you are feeling.

But I don't think that I am trivializing things. The fact is, that phishing sites are causing a real pain (as in millions of dollars lost by the victims, hundreds of thousands of computers becoming zombies, etc). All major browsers are trying to mitigate these risks by implementing phishing & malware filters. None of these implementations are perfect (you probably know a bit or two about bugs in software development).

But on average these filters have a positive ROI - especially for the target market (which is Joe WebUser and sadly NOT your company - or mine for that matter). The costs of a false positive ("I'll go & find that information on another site") far outweigh the costs of a false negative ("I put my login+password into this legitimate looking website and now I can no longer access PayPal").

As much as I can understand you being upset that Chrome shows a warning for your site, I don't think that the approach they are using is unreasonable.

I'd take bets that those criteria show a correlation to phishy sites. Especially if you combine those metrics together.

Is it perfect? No. Does it produce false positives? Yes. Is it beneficial on average? I think so.

PS: Since you have found the relevant file in the open source project (or 'kiddie playground' - as you like to call it), why don't you supply a superior implementation with less "foolish" measures?

In my experience over the last few weeks, younger Germans (my age, 30 years & younger) are blissfully ignorant ("I don't have anything to hide" - sounds familiar ?) to the impact of the government spying on its citizen.

24 years are a long time & that part of history is not as well-ingrained in the collective memory as the Holocaust. :-(

"These business men are here to tell you why you are going to break your leg tomorrow" - I love that :-)

Why not?

That is exactly the WRONG question. Government power & influence needs to be restricted to the bare minimum necessary - for the security(!) of its citizen.

We can all clearly see what extensive government power leads to. Just wait for the HN front page to be flooded again with reports about Snowden/PRISM.

There are certain tasks that should be put in the hands of the government (ensuring the rule of law, national defense, making sure free elections happen) and others that have a good ROI (education / healthcare). But beyond that, it is just more power to the wrong institution.

Going completely 1984 here: Today they distribute Linux, tomorrow they distribute Linux with a Rootkit pre-installed.

Regarding UI changes: Boy... I hate those. 20 years of Moore's law have left us with incredibly powerful computers and we manage to waste all that raw power, those billions of CPU cycles per second on fancy UI. You are completely right - from a technical, educated standpoint.

BUT, that's not how the human brain works. For your average consumer the rule of thumb is "if it looks fresh, it is fresh". Plain & simple. They don't "get" that NTFS now supports transactions and that atomicity in file operations is like the holy grail and just completely awesome - but "Oh boy! That start button with lights up when I move the mouse over it!!!!"

Tell you what: Microsoft has that shit figured out - at least with every other version ;-)

Wait... That's what I am paying my taxes for? That's where my money goes?

I am NOT against Linux being more widely used. And I like the idea that the city uses Linux to save money & more efficient.

But pushing citizens to use Linux is NOT government business

They probably need the CPU cycles somewhere else. Maybe a lot of calls going on right now...

Title win!

I would have probably said (with some imprecision): Electrical circuits either carry a current (binary 1) or they don't (binary 0). [Ignoring the fact that you could also measure the AMOUNT of current carried here] Because of this underlying limitation in electrics you need to make do with just a binary system in computers.

Depending on the amount of time remaining I would either go into more depth or point him towards "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold (http://amzn.com/0735611319)

It is a legit Moz.com message: https://twitter.com/Moz/status/341379361175400450

Got informed by a user of a weakness in web interface AFAIK

I posted this already. To answer your question: The email clearly reads "We were not hacked"

Any reasons behind this?

I am not saying, that your perspective is wrong - I certainly feel that you have made a good point there.

But maybe we (You & I) just aren't in their target audience and while it does not seem a good idea to us, it is an insanely awesome idea for their market? Who knows...

Oh god, Tom.

That right there: "One thing that programmers forget is that, at some point, you weren't good at programming, but over time, you learned and now you are pretty good."

That's just an enormous revelation. I can't even tell you how good it was to talk to Dave Rodenbaugh and he basically said: "See, you are now good in giving talks. Do you remember the first time?" and I was like: "Yeah, I remember: I nearly cried afterwards"

And I needed someone to tell me this!

Agree! (& listen to Erica, she knows what she's talking about)

Deliverability is a nightmare (client of mine lost 5 figures, because his admins [at Germany's biggest hosting company] messed up the DNS setup).

There's a reason why there are so many companies doing email delivery as a service (SendGrid, MailGun, Postmark - to name a few)

I think, that it is a marketing thing as well. You just don't want to put out the videos shortly after the conference, because of all the people who paid $700+ to attend. They might feel betrayed and appreciate having a bit of a head start.

Hey Erica. Thanks for sharing the link and for the incredible talk you delivered. I learned a lot from your talk and from listening in on you guys talking at the buffet. Wish you all the best with your rebranding efforts from WooshTrafic to Marketvibe!

PS: I now know that I'm missing a 'h' :-)

Have a good flight back home, Patrick. It has been a pleasure to meet you in real life. Thanks for all the information you shared and for entertaining us at the buffet. Those stories were gold :-)

I was really wondering where the difference to the normal syntax was. Thanks for the clarification

I think the poor handling is very much AA's fault. As in:

  - I get back to my customers ASAP with new information
  - I own my errors
  - I rectify my mistakes ASAP (yes, even if someone outside my company f*cks up)

He probably doesn't. patrick@[any domain he owns] Also see http://www.kalzumeus.com/standing-invitation/

My gut tells me, that this is not legal (it would not be in Germany), so I don't advise you doing this before consulting with a lawyer first.

That being said, I just got a US phone number and I get at least 3-4 calls a week for the previous owner of my phone number. Those calls seem to be revolving around credit loans that she had.

To me it seems as if they try to remind her that she should pay those loans back. One could pretty easily build a really annoying twilio-based version of those phone calls...