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Re: Ask HN: How can I help you?

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #6

Asking here in case others find it interesting. Can you share more about your experiences building in Russia, especially more unique challenges you faced (e.g. harder to literally get funds from foreign clients, regulatory environment, etc.). Are there things solved there that you are shocked you haven't seen elsewhere? What is your feeling about the current buildup of troops around Ukraine & what do Russian friends/…

Tangentially you often fall into needing dual compliance with the rest of Europe and then Russia having their own systems/regulations in place.

From my past life in automotive we had a huge nightmare certifying cars to have European E-call which runs on GPS AND the Russian equivalent that runs on GLONASS.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/security-and-em...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS

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Post by ignoramous »

Mostly technical questions from me:

1. Re: Presto/Clickhouse: Have you looked at dsq, pola.rs, DuckDB, Apache DataFusion, Clickhouse Local? If so, what's your opinion on where the (data science) ecosystem is moving towards (for example, ibis-project.org taking over Presto/Trino).

2. Re: Bitmaps: What's the most compact way you know to store a bitmap-index in printable ASCII (b64 etc)? Puny code esque state machines are elegant (used in DNS), but is there anything else that's better?

3. Re: Unit economics/Opex: Are you a believer in the cost effectiveness (both eng and monetary) of the overall Serverless storage and compute movement?

4. Re: Russia: From the looks of it Russia (and Eastern Europe, in general) has fantastic yet untapped pool of talent, but then, how do you compete for talent with Yandex, Klarna, Spotify, UiPath, and others?

5. Re: py/go: Choose one? ;)

Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: How can I help you?

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Post by convolvatron »

is there a service for this? i mean i hate the fact that everything has to be an app, but i'm in a similar boat. i've been trying to get more out of life by engaging with other people (outside a commerical context), but its hard to keep jobs coming.

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Post by jimhi »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #3

I’d like to be CTO / VP of engineering one day. How did you get to that point? What roles did you do before that to be able to step up into being taken seriously for that kind of role? I’m in the odd? Position of being more commercially experienced and less technically experienced than most (senior)/software engineers. Right now I fall into wanting to prove my chops technically and building new products/ mvp’s while…

I'm not the poster, but this is most of my career - check out my profile and website.

The short answer is either:

1. Be willing to take a severe or entire pay cut at the start (i.e. Do it because you trust the person and believe the product and your equity will be worth it)

2. Know founders and investors and have a rich history of being a CTO / technical CEO with a plethora of launched apps to point at.

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Post by shepik »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #3

I’d like to be CTO / VP of engineering one day. How did you get to that point? What roles did you do before that to be able to step up into being taken seriously for that kind of role? I’m in the odd? Position of being more commercially experienced and less technically experienced than most (senior)/software engineers. Right now I fall into wanting to prove my chops technically and building new products/ mvp’s while…

I was a software dev, and then a technical co-founder, so when the idea became a company and the company grew, i kinda grew into the CTO role. But I did manage to build a team and a product, so i think i was taken seriously because of that.

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Post by shepik »

altdataseller wrote: post #18

What are the risks of investing in a public Russian co (ie Yandex and Ozon and Semrush)

IMO most of Yandex/Ozon revenue is in Russia, so you a betting both on a company and on a ruble. Semrush, on the other hand, has most of its revenue outside of Russia (i think).
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