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bjghknggkk commented on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun   europeanbusinessmagazine.... · Posted by u/NewCzech
pjmlp · 18 hours ago
On Portugal we have the Multibanco network, which already provided Internet like services for buying stuff on the terminals and eventually graduated to have online payments as well, however only in Portugal.

Likewise, in Germany we can have SEPA for most stuff.

And in Greece there is Viva.

Problem is getting something that actually works across all European countries.

bjghknggkk · 17 hours ago
Show me a german webshop that supports modern payment methods. It usually old school bank transfers still.
bjghknggkk commented on Parse, Don't Validate (2019)   lexi-lambda.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/shirian
munk-a · 18 hours ago
That's going to be up to the business building the logic. Ideally those assumptions are clearly encoded in an easily readable manner but at the very least they should be captured somewhere code adjacent (even if it's just a comment and the block of logic to enforce those restraints).
bjghknggkk · 18 hours ago
How to make a crap system that users will hate: Let some architecture astronaut decide what characters should be valid or not.
bjghknggkk commented on Parse, Don't Validate (2019)   lexi-lambda.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/shirian
dylan604 · 18 hours ago
Obviously the pseudo code leaves to the imagination, but what benefits does this give you? Are you checking that it is 10-digits? Are you allowing for + symbols for the international codes?
bjghknggkk · 18 hours ago
And parentheses. And spaces (that may, or may not, be trimmed). And all kind of unicode equivalent characters, that might have to be canonicalized. Why not treat it as a byte buffer anyway.

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