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I have the exact opposite experience and find Fastnail's spam detection quite superior. There is the occasional spam.email getting through - maybe 1 per day - despite the fact that I have quite a number of custom domains with catch-all email addresses.

At the same time I really never have to check my spam folder for false positive, everything in there is literal spam so I forget checking it for weeks on end. Whereas on n Gmail I always need to check the spam folder, Google completely overdoes the filtering it and a lot of wanted emails end up in spam.

Works for me on a 2018 Moto w stock Android 10. My color options are (translated) natural, boosted and saturated, w saturated active. Seems to be the factory default.

My most time saving programs didn't change in several years:

Slickrun, floating command line for Windows https://bayden.com/slickrun/

Autohotkey - shortcuts, text expander and scripting for everything https://www.autohotkey.com/

Total Commander, still the best file manager on Windows https://www.ghisler.com/

CyberChef - The "Cyber Swiss Army Knife" - single file web app for all kinds of conversions, encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

Adminer - lighweigt database manager https://www.adminer.org/

Dropbox Shop Beta 4 years ago

BTW: the waitlist signup does not seem to work: [an error occurred while processing this directive]

Dropbox Shop Beta 4 years ago

Same. I almost exclusively use Dropbox, despite having an Office365 subscription with 1TB OneDrive. I tried moving to OneDrive when Dropbox raised their prices, but gave up after a couple days when OneDrive still couldn’t sync my files. Dropbox just works, no matter the number or size of files I throw at them.

Dropbox Shop Beta 4 years ago

I can literally already hear the desperate cries for help from people who have lost access to their Dropbox accounts because they are accused of selling things that violate vaguely worded terms of service.

I like and use Witopia.net. 70 USD p.a. w/ unlimited traffic and gateways in basically every region of the world.

Anonymous domain registration, no about us page, total lack of info about who's behind it = deal breaker

BTW: websites hosted by Germans are required to have an imprint ("Impressum") with full contact data incl. phone number.

We've been doing the simpler version of this for years now, basically stolen the idea from a 2007 MarketingSherpa article [1]: we just raise a modal window for every subscriber address and ask something like "Please check again: is this your email address? - Yes / No (I want to correct it) (with the email address in big letters). Has worked wonders ever since ;)

[1] http://www.marketingsherpa.com/content/?q=node/2223

I wonder what would be hard about FatFree? To me it does not get much simpler than that. And it has a router, templating engine, auto loader (even with name space support, if you wish) and several other plugins.

It helps when you need it and lets you do things your way at the same time.

The only caveat is there's basically only one guy developing it.

All this is nice and well, but how would one build an "unsubscribe" link into a newsletter system without a GET request changing the state of the resource (i.e. deleting the email address from the active recipients table by just clicking a link)?

Would this be the exception to the rule or is this problem totally unrelated to REST?

BTW: I'm not debating, I really wanna know.

Health Care: self employed can choose between private and public insurance, private being less expensive for younger people (starting around 150 EUR or even lower for basic plans) but rates go up quickly when you're getting older.

Public insurance rates are related to income but are capped at a certain rate (slightly adjusted year by year), so you're not going to pay more than like 650 EUR or so, even if you're making millions. But they are more expensive to start with (I think around 300) and they offer only basic plans (no special treatment, no alternative medicine, etc.).

As you can not easily switch back from a private to a public plan, it can be a tough choice.

Retirement: when self employed, you really can opt out of retirement plans, there's no obligation.

That's pretty easy, at least in Germany: if you are self employed you are not automatically insured, you need to pick a plan from a private insurance company on your own (or go with one of the expensive "voluntary" plans of the public insurances). If you don't, you simply don't have insurance.

I don't know what happens when they find out that you're uninsured, however it's possible to have no health insurance.

At the doctors or at the hospital just say you have private insurance and you'll get a invoice after the treatment.

My whole point is, the invoice amount would be not quite close to what that Amarican hospital charged.

[Edited for clarification]

As far as I can tell from the facts given in the EU you would have paid about the same amount the author had to pay out of his own pocket (~ 700 USD). If you had no health insurance at all.

To me this sounds - a litte - overengineered.

To do more than 99.9% of the companies out there it would be enough to just send generic follow up autoresponders based on sign up date. Email them on day 0, 1, 3, 7, 11, 14 ... etc.

You can do this with AWeber, Mailchimp, Getresponse and a dozen other services.

Just tell the customer what he can do with your service and ask a lot of questions: "Have you tried this?", "Did you know you can...", "How can we help?". Use the feedback you already have to come up with ideas for content. Point them to a lot of your help and learning resources. In each email tell them you are really interested in their feedback and give an easy option to contact you. Then read the feedback as it comes in - like manually reading, with your eyes ;-) - and respond promptly and indvidually.

Setting his up takes a day or two - and mostly consists of coming up with ideas for the content. After having this running for a few weeks you might come to the conclusion that you don't need a complicated machine learning, metrics based system :-)

I've written about this in another context earlier this year, basically about how we handle the trial period: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979048

TL;DR: "Eighty percent of success is showing up." (Woody Allen)