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Skoobe, a new ebook subscription service based in Munich/Germany. C and Python are in fact our most-used and loved languages. We developed a cross-platform library in C that makes our codebase reusable across multiple platforms, currently we support iOS, Android, Linux and MacOSX. Next: maybe Windows/Windows Phone? Most of our backend services and our web site are running on Python/Tornado. Additionally, we use Pytho…
We do alot of async and evented I/O in Python/C/Cython using Gevent.
Python is just one of those languages that is so easy to extend with native code.
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did you write the libraries yourself? is it libsvm with a python wrapper? I'm curious
Definitely influenced by a few existing libraries (libsvm, svmlight etc.) but ultimately custom built to really ramp up performance and scaling. Our customers throw the Twitter firehose at us, so we need to be able to analyze data quickly.
Skoobe, a new ebook subscription service based in Munich/Germany. C and Python are in fact our most-used and loved languages. We developed a cross-platform library in C that makes our codebase reusable across multiple platforms, currently we support iOS, Android, Linux and MacOSX. Next: maybe Windows/Windows Phone? Most of our backend services and our web site are running on Python/Tornado. Additionally, we use Pytho…
Don't pigeonhole yourself by languages you want to use. Interestingness of work is not correlated with language very much.
Good advice in general, but if C and Python are the only languages that he currently knows, getting a job at a company that uses them might be much easier than convincing an employer that he could quickly learn Ruby or Haskell.
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.
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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.
I feel like this is from the movie Yes, Man! That aside, I take your advice to heart. I don't want to be the no in my life. :)
Check out www.omnicloudapp.com - they're hiring devs in Stockholm / the US for disrupting the hosting world.