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purzelraketeon CSV Reader Benchmarks: Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R

I built a pagerank implementation in Julia many years ago. It was operating on an adjacency list with half a billion edges, and I had to resort to writing a custom reader to get reasonable read speeds over the csv. In case anyone is interested: https://github.com/purzelrakete/Pagerank.jl/blob/070a193826f...

purzelraketeon Is Berlin the new home for tech start-up business? [video]

feel free to drop me a mail if you want to know anything about working at soundcloud. i'm an engineer. rany@soundcloud.com

purzelraketeon Exploring Kotlin, writing a simple spell checker

on a somewhat unrelated note, you can write a noisy channel model spell checker with a lot more data and a bit more code: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

purzelraketeon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)

berlin and san francisco

soundcloud is hiring like crazy. check soundcloud.com/jobs if you want to work with an amazing team at an engineering driven company.

feel free to ask me anything – i'm rany@soundcloud.com.

purzelraketeon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)

berlin: http://soundcloud.com/jobs

purzelraketeon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

Berlin, Germany & San Francisco, California

SoundCloud - http://soundcloud.com/jobs

SoundCloud is hiring! Back-end Developers, Front-End Developers, API Developers, VP Eng, Developer Evangelist, Partner Integration Manager, Systems Administrator, and Music Information Retrieval Developer.

Founded in late 2007, SoundCloud is an international start-up headquartered in Berlin with smaller satellite offices in London and San Francisco. With the 50+ people onboard, we’ve got 11+ nationalities covered and a range of interests so diverse that you’ll fit in all over the place!