waterlooalex

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Building a free on-the-fly image optimization pipeline /w Cloudflare/Cloudinary(syncwith.com)
6 points by waterlooalex 3y ago|0 comments
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by waterlooalex 8y ago
I didn't have that problem, maybe they've since fixed it?
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
https://transferwise.com/blog/2012-04/send-money-abroad-comp...
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Wow. When ever I've done cross border wires they take at minumum 1 day.
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
I'm curious, are those payments for work you've done for a US company? I do love what transferwise is doing, thats awesome that the banks are riled up about it :)
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Thats pretty slick.
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
A friend had mentioned XE to me, it looked like a good option. What makes it a PITA? You mentioned broker but I'm not sure exactly what you mean.
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Even international wire transfers? Eg US to another country.
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Is it safe to use Bitcoin?
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Wire transfers always seem to take so long. How long do they take for you?
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
I read about them, they sound awesome. Is your employer happy to use them?
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Does PayPal also charge their international fee and currency exchange fee? https://www.paypal.com/cr/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-xborde... https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter&#x2
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Yes, transfer fees etc. Also I found out my bank takes a cut on currency exchange!! Eg they take 2.5% vs the market rate. PayPal fees seem high.
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Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
13 points by waterlooalex 12y ago|33 comments
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Very slick, works well on my phone. But I dont really get it. What does it do?
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
You could avoid that by 1. having many apps up at once instead of just one. 2. Probably isn't hard to use a proxy for each device.
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Ah interesting, as in: she's the person who rates your app if you "buy" some ratings?
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
The swiping seems to be really laggy, makes it seem like its broken.
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Bandwidth doesn't grow on trees :) Verizon's position is that simply adding more cards within the free peering agreement will make it even more unbalanced in level 3's favour, hence their suggestion that level 3 pay for bandw
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
I think Level 3 is saying they'd be willing to pay for the cards, but not bandwidth, eg continue using the free peering agreement. Verizon is saying that Level 3 should pay for the bandwidth (probably way more costly than the cards), s
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
It doesn't look like they had a control group, did they?
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Ask HN: Retargeting – does it really work?
1 points by waterlooalex 12y ago|0 comments
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Looks like you built your own http://cloudinary.com but with less features
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Ask HN: Does AdWords work for you?
7 points by waterlooalex 12y ago|7 comments
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
I'd be interested in discussing further. Fire me an email alex at alexblack.ca
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Idea: look at Craigslist for some big cities like NYC and see which categories have the most posts, and use that as a proxy for sales?
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The world as 100 people(visual.ly)
2 points by waterlooalex 12y ago|0 comments
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
OK makes sense. 40 customers, nice! What are your transcoding costs? Eg what is your profit margin on $0.3 per min?
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Thanks for the responses! 3. From what I've seen customer acquisition is the key challenge of any startup. If you can acquire customers for less than their life time value then you are set! Without a process to acquire customers your
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by waterlooalex 12y ago
Also: 5. What are the reasons someone would pay to use transcoder.io instead of zencoder? 6. What are the reasons someone would pay to use transcoder.io instead of elastic transcoder?

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