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by timrogers 13y ago
Indeed - Twilio is awesome purely because it allows you to integrate with the phone networks, which are basically a legacy system, naturally within your applications. I've not really played with Asterisk. How is it to configure, and wh
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by timrogers 13y ago
We've generally found it to be decent, although (naturally) variable. We use Twilio alongside a UK SIP provider called Voipfone ( http://voipfone.co.uk ) which is how we actually get our calls through to PSTN. Twilio Client (
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by timrogers 13y ago
Hi Josh - I'm the same. Building solutions to these kinds of problems is really interesting. We've not implemented that yet, but I've spoken to another company doing similar things with around 100 agents and they've mana
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by timrogers 13y ago
OP here. If you have any questions about building this kind of thing, feel free to comment or drop me an email at tim [at] gocardless [dot] com.
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Rolling your own cloud phone system(gocardless.com)
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by timrogers 13y ago
I work at GoCardless.com, a UK-based payments startup (YC S11), and thus I have a above-average insight into these kinds of issues from my day-to-day work. From the point of view of fraud protection and risk management, I can see why PayPal
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by timrogers 13y ago
Awesome! Speak to you soon hopefully!
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by timrogers 13y ago
Very interesting point - I'm not sure how best to judge what is exploitative and what isn't. I guess it becomes exploitative if it serious subverts in some way the business model of the original data/service provider. But the
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by timrogers 13y ago
OP here. I agree - for me, the only exception is where data is being abused for overtly commercial purposes. This obviously isn't one of those cases, and I'm doubtful as to whether unofficial APIs (i.e. screen scraping) can ever w
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by timrogers 13y ago
Interesting question - I haven't had to try it yet. My scrapers are all read-only at the moment, and (afaik) none of the UK banks require two-factor in any form for that kind of operation. Potentially using Twilio ( http://ww
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by timrogers 13y ago
Hah - glad you like it. Did you find it before, or is this the first time you've spotted it? I built a cool frontend too that you might be able to cannibalise if you'd like to share your status online - see https://gith
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by timrogers 13y ago
I actually saw your library, it's super cool - it's currently pretty much the top result for "Rap Genius API", apart from the tweet I refer to ( https://twitter.com/RapGenius/statuses/24505732632
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by timrogers 13y ago
No problem - great to engage with people's opinions. HN has such a wealth of knowledge. You might find my response below ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229617 ) interesting, on that front. My guess is that for R
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by timrogers 13y ago
Thanks. I'd imagine an API is on the cards, but I could be wrong. As far as I can see, beyond the website, their data has two markets: - Embedding in personal blogs - this is probably best achieved by a simple embed code (which I'
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by timrogers 13y ago
OP here. It's a fair point. I'd love to hear the thoughts of other HNers. I tend to think that this kind of thing is okay for personal use, whereas it wouldn't be en masse - for instance, if you were using it to power and adv
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by timrogers 13y ago
This is a typical example of a policy that is both pointless and ineffective. The government is, for one, not clear on what the goal of the policy is. If it's to thwart child pornography, that won't work because if you wanted to v
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by timrogers 13y ago
Thanks George - I appreciate it.
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My own Rap Genius API(timrogers.co.uk)
28 points by timrogers 13y ago|21 comments
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by timrogers 13y ago
An archaic British spelling of jail, nevertheless.
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How we moved our phone support to the cloud(gocardless.com)
4 points by timrogers 13y ago|0 comments
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by timrogers 13y ago
FWIW I'd love to see this too. We have a semi-regular paper-reading club at GoCardless (YC S11) and this could be super interesting.
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by timrogers 13y ago
What are the legal specifics of a case like this? Does this mean his US citizenship has been revoked, ergo he is a stateless person? Would love to know.
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by timrogers 13y ago
Is there actually any hard evidence that the event has any relation to Flickr?
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by timrogers 13y ago
That seems like something of a bizarre argument - there's a different between a computer reading it and a person doing so. I'm not convinced privacy is infringed if it goes through, perhaps detects particular phrases (which are presumably r
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by timrogers 13y ago
Is there any reason that Tumblr couldn't take the freemium route? It has high engagement, and a passionate audience that might well be willing to pay to keep the same Tumblr they always had, as opposed to a sanitised ad-friendly one. Of cou
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by timrogers 13y ago
Facebook does this as well - they will hit any URL you post. This doesn't prove any malice, in fact, quite the opposite.
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by timrogers 13y ago
For me at least, http://gov.uk is a lot better - it's far more minimal and puts the information first, whereas I can't help but feel that this Manchester City Council site is more about the sexy design that it is about usability and actua
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by timrogers 13y ago
Agreed. Depending on context (of the content and myself!), sometimes I'll want to save and sometimes not. A prompt from the browser would be the best option, but alternatively, I'd want the site to offer me an option as to how the external
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by timrogers 14y ago
Not sure they can be considered fait accompli necessarily because they are "works". The rule [1] they can't be copyright by virtue of what they are seems more compelling. [1] http://macwright.org/2013/02/14/the-law-is-public-domain.htm..
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by timrogers 14y ago
I'm confused by this comment. What change would you expect? What would the benefit be? (Just interested.)

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