Hacker News: b14ck

It's All Perspective

b14ck — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:34:14 +0000

Article URL: http://www.rdegges.com/its-all-perspective/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5474970

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Ambitions

b14ck — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:19:48 +0000

Article URL: http://rdegges.com/ambitions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797706

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

4 Weeks with DuckDuckGo

b14ck — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:00:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/22483556686/four-weeks-with-duckduckgo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933766

Points: 91

# Comments: 121

The Python Standard Library - Where Modules Go To Die

b14ck — Tue, 01 May 2012 05:42:54 +0000

Article URL: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913182

Points: 122

# Comments: 72

A Curated Guide to PostgreSQL

b14ck — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:06:38 +0000

Article URL: http://postgresguide.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3885429

Points: 83

# Comments: 13

Never Stop Hacking

b14ck — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:53:14 +0000

Article URL: http://rdegges.com/never-stop-hacking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3851204

Points: 119

# Comments: 12

New comment by b14ck in "Successful GitHub Development"

b14ck — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:48:23 +0000

To me, wikis just seem 'lazy'. Projects that use wikis as a primary form of documentation make users feel like the project is un-cared for, and not worth documenting.

I have absolutely no stats to back this up--but having officially written documentation gives projects a really good 'feel', and makes it a lot simpler for users to get started (IMO).

Successful GitHub Development

b14ck — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:05:38 +0000

Article URL: http://rdegges.com/successful-github-development

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3841551

Points: 63

# Comments: 9

New comment by b14ck in "Light Table - a new IDE concept"

b14ck — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:36:58 +0000

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

New comment by b14ck in "Caller ID Made Simple"

b14ck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:20:49 +0000

There are some other small countries / territories also on NANPA, but yeah, sorry!

New comment by b14ck in "Caller ID Made Simple"

b14ck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:35:22 +0000

Hey premchai21, thanks for the feedback! You're completely right. I'll be making some adjustments to the way this operates over the coming days to make things much simpler.

Thanks for taking the time to check us out!

New comment by b14ck in "Caller ID Made Simple"

b14ck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:33:42 +0000

Hey mike, thanks for the feedback. I'll be working on this tomorrow to get a fix out.

After all the feedback here, I realize how crazy it is to be returning a 404.

Thanks for checking us out, and thanks for the feedback!

New comment by b14ck in "Caller ID Made Simple"

b14ck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:32:36 +0000

Hey krrose27, we basically pull the information from a variety of sources, all publicly available. If we can get the caller ID name information, then it means any call made from those numbers to a caller ID capable phone (with caller ID service) will be able to see it also.

New comment by b14ck in "Caller ID Made Simple"

b14ck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:26:43 +0000

Hey ars, thanks for the feedback! After reading the comments here on HN (which are incredibly valuable), I'll be making those changes ASAP.

Sorry for the confusion, but thanks again for the feedback. I greatly appreciate it.

New comment by b14ck in "Caller ID Made Simple"

b14ck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:25:43 +0000

Hey samirahmed, thanks for the comment! I'll definitely be updating my blog post and improving the documentation on the website.

Appreciate the feedback.

New comment by b14ck in "Caller ID Made Simple"

b14ck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:24:39 +0000

Hey Adley, thanks for the comment! I'll update the page shortly.

New comment by b14ck in "Caller ID Made Simple"

b14ck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:40:27 +0000

Hi there. So, I'm the author of this article. Anyhow, for our free-tier users we don't provide realtime lookups.

Basically, we'll only return a result if we have a caller ID in our cache. So, if you get a 404 (no output), then try again a few seconds later after we've had time to do the lookup via our backend.

Sorry about that! Realtime lookups are currently restricted to API key users only.

New comment by b14ck in "Why I'm Learning Node"

b14ck — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:46:49 +0000

Thanks, this looks like a really great list. I'm adding these to my reading queue :)

Why I'm Learning Node

b14ck — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:14:57 +0000

Article URL: http://rdegges.com/why-im-learning-node

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3812907

Points: 79

# Comments: 60

New comment by b14ck in "Confnow - Painless 24/7 Free Conference Calls"

b14ck — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:32:02 +0000

Hey again-- I've actually made a response on the related reddit posting to a similar question. I typed out a fairly in-depth response, so I'm going to paste it below.

I hope this clears things up.

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Basically--we partner with telephone companies who colocate our equipment (servers, etc.) which we use to run our software. We purchase phone lines from these telcos (to support incoming calls), and then provide free services for public consumption to make money off the termination cost.

Imagine that you have a T-Mobile cell phone, and your friend has a Verizon cell phone. When your friend calls you, Verizon pays T-Mobile a small amount of money for every minute that your call lasts (this fee is to pay for the physical infrastructure that T-Mobile invests in--telephone polls, switches, service monitoring, etc.). That's why cell phone plans cost money and aren't free.

We operate the same way, except we partner with telephone companies (like T-Mobile in my example above), and split the termination fees with them.

So the more people use our services, the more we can profit from it.

Hopefully this clears it up. There's been a lot of discussion in the internet recently about traffic pumping and companies attempting to get fraudulent traffic to make money. We are by no means doing anything illegal or illegitimate here.

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Also: our motivation for building confnow is to basically to make conference calling as simple as humanly possible. I've personally used the other sites out there (namely: freeconferencecall.com), and nothing is more frustrating to me (as a user) to want to make a quick call and have to go through hoops (setting up accounts, waiting for verification, listening to ads, etc.) when you just want to get into a room as quick as possible and move on with your life.