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I got my current job by responding to a "Who's hiring" comment. It's by far the best job I've ever had.

Hi, post author here.

To anyone upset or offended by the Linux/nerd paragraph: please chill, and please forgive my tone.

I am a nerd myself indeed, and what I wanted to convey by this not-as-funny-sa-expected paragraph was that "going full nerd" is not a solution. There are ways to protect your privacy that will not be available to less tech-savvy people, and it's a problem. HN crowd will use Thinkpads with Arch on them, and phones with Graphene or whatever, but most people won't.

Yours, Absolute nerd and lover of desktop Linux since SuSE 6.0

"Lords of the desert" by James Barr. It's an eye-opening 20th century history of the Middle East.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36592392-lords-of-the-de...

(technically published in 2018, but I only read it this year)

Location: Amsterdam, NL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python, AWS, GCP, K8S, Linux, Clickhouse, Dataflow

Resume: https://piotr.is/cv.pdf

Email: m@piotr.is

I am an experienced backend/data engineer with background in systems engineering/SRE and research. I'm interested in any job that features a significant programming component (not so keen on devops roles). I have remote work experience, but I'd only consider remote work when a large part of the organisation is remote.

MessageBird | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Data Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | Visa

MessageBird is a Cloud Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) company for SMS, Voice and Chat communications that connects businesses to 7 billion phones worldwide. We’re one of the fastest growing software companies in Europe and we’re looking to expand our engineering team with an experienced Data Engineer.

Data engineering at MessageBird is programming-heavy, so we're looking for people who like to code and have significant software engineering experience.

Tech stack: Go, gRPC, Clickhouse, Bigtable, Java, Apache Beam (Google Dataflow), GCP, k8s.

Our data team is currently 10 engineers and 8 nationalities. We have a very well stocked kitchen and a roof terrace in our brand new Rivierenbuurt office.

Apply at https://www.messagebird.com/en/careers and feel free to contact me at piotr@messagebird.com in case you have any questions.

MessageBird | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Data Engineer, ML Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | Visa

MessageBird is a Cloud Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) company for SMS, Voice and Chat communications that connects businesses to 7 billion phones worldwide. We’re one of the fastest growing software companies in the world and we’re looking to expand our best-in-class Engineering Team with an experienced Data Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer.

Data engineering at MessageBird is programming-heavy, so we're looking for people who like to code and have significant software engineering experience. On the ML front we're looking for engineers experienced in delivering products more than purely research-oriented folk, but if you've a solid research background and want to try moving to the private sector, give us a shout too.

Tech stack: Go, gRPC, Clickhouse, Bigtable, Java, Apache Beam (Google Dataflow), GCP, k8s.

Our data team is currently 8 engineers and 8 nationalities. We have a very well stocked kitchen and a roof terrace in our brand new Rivierenbuurt office.

Apply at https://www.messagebird.com/en/careers and feel free to contact me at piotr@messagebird.com in case you have any questions.

Thanks, I guess I'll just have to try it:)

Neat and quite impressive, given how exotic OpenBSD seems to most people. One thing that bothers me though: why? I mean, why wouldn't they do it with any linux distribution? It would probably require less work, less custom tools (like these apps for automatic network configuration or scripts for automounting usb drives they mention), and with some security patches/kernel configurations it should give a similar security level OpenBSD does.

Or am I missing something?

It's astonishing to me that a computer science student wrote such a good book. It's funny, witty, the drawings are great, and the author explains quite complicated concepts of functional programming very clearly. I've already read this book a year ago online, yet I'm still gonna buy it just to support the author.

As much as I admire Alienware computers' design, craftsmanship, speed, etc., and as much as I appreciate the company's interest in linux, I hardly think there's any sense in Alienware linux-based computers, since they're designed for gaming and gaming only.

I'm Polish but I live in Norway (guess that doesn't count).