Ask HN: What startups use C and Python? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by pulletsforever » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 2:11 PM UTC

Nest is using both C (for embedded Linux on the thermostat) and Python (some of the API services) they are also hiring for lots of positions, some are listed at nest.com/careers

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by shrughes » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

Don't pigeonhole yourself by languages you want to use. Interestingness of work is not correlated with language very much.

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by danielwozniak » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

davidjohnstone wrote: post #19

The server side code of http://www.cyclinganalytics.com/ is almost entirely Python with a small amount of C. There's one particular bit of data processing that gets a couple of orders of magnitude speedup by writing the code in C rather than Python. It involves lots of loops and indexes, and it's possible there's a faster way to do it in Python, but I couldn't think of one.

I'm not sure that you would be able to get it as fast in Python but if you have not checked out the bisect module, I highly recommend it.

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by jasonlotito » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 2:31 PM UTC

brewerhimself wrote: post #7

dkhenry wrote: post #6

The company I work for uses C and PHP mainly , but as our platform is Gentoo that also makes us users of python. I also write most of the utility scripts I use in python. http://sevone.com

SevOne's careers page says that a Bachelor's degree is a requirement. How strict is SevOne (or any other company, for that matter) on this requirement? Do you know of any software engineers that don't have a degree?

> SevOne's careers page says that a Bachelor's degree is a requirement

Don't let this stop you. Every. If you honestly think you have the skills for the job after reading the description, seek it out. Let them determine if you are right for the position.

Don't be the no in your life.

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by endlessvoid94 » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 2:49 PM UTC

Kontagent uses both.

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by waterside81 » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 2:58 PM UTC

Repustate.com

Our machine learning code is in C and accessed from Python via Cython.

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by jrockway » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 3:12 PM UTC

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #20

reiz wrote: post #8

I know that Google is using C and Python. The first version of Google was written in Python. Today the webserver and the web page are written in C, for performance reasons. But internally they still use a lot of Python.

So far I have only seen C++ from Google, never C. Are you referring to anything specific from them?

We have some C; adb for example.

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by the_cat_kittles » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 3:37 PM UTC

waterside81 wrote: post #26

Repustate.com Our machine learning code is in C and accessed from Python via Cython.

did you write the libraries yourself? is it libsvm with a python wrapper? I'm curious

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by rikthevik » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 4:20 PM UTC

I worked for Veridae (veridae.com) doing some really interesting EDA software and we used both very heavily. They got acquired by Tektronix last year.

Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?

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Post by jurre » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #25

Kontagent uses both.

Just FYI, that means butt-agent in Dutch :)