Amazon.co.za

[sybawoods]

Heads up for those who are interested: Amazon has opened it's development centre in South Africa (Cape Town) - http://www.amazon.co.za/index.htm - and is currently recruiting.

Amazon.com is delighted to announce that our new software development centre in South Africa is now fully operational. The Centre offers a unique opportunity to be a part of a rather unusual start-up -- one which will serve tens of millions of active customer accounts around the world. We are now looking for outstanding individuals across a number of different areas of expertise to join the start-up team.

 

[Vlad]

didn't they start two months ago already?

 

[sybawoods]

Actually basic operations started in July already. *Official* recruitment has only just started tho, so a good time to make a move if you plan on getting in

 

[JStrike]

I dont know of any South African who has contributed at the kernel level to OSS. Hell, the amount of South Africans that have contributed to OSS at all is tiny. Should be interesting.

Knew I should have learned Java. Maybe I can talk them into using Mono

 

[savage]

Interesting how www.amazon.co.za goes to www.netpoint.co.za. Also interesting that the exact given url - www.amazon.co.za/index.htm returns a 404.

 

[TheRoDent]

I dont know of any South African who has contributed at the kernel level to OSS. Hell, the amount of South Africans that have contributed to OSS at all is tiny. Should be interesting.

Hello. I've done kernel work.

Secondly, if you knew some perl, more specifically Mason, then you'd be exactly what Amazon wants. http://www.masonhq.com/?AmazonDotCom

Since mid-2002, Mason has been Amazon.com's official website templating system, powering the main Amazon.com site as well as partner sites. As one engineer at Amazon writes, "Mason elegantly solves the problem of large-scale web development, giving Amazon.com web developers the power of industry-standard Perl and the simplicity of re-usable components. This has made it easy to manage and evolve a very large mission-critical global codebase, and has halved the ramp-up time for new developers."

Knew I should have learned Java. Maybe I can talk them into using Mono

MONO? Java? Pfffft.

 

[ScrnScrm]

Interesting how www.amazon.co.za goes to www.netpoint.co.za. Also interesting that the exact given url - www.amazon.co.za/index.htm returns a 404.

wtf? mine works fine... you need to flush your dns dude...

 

[JStrike]

TheRoDent : I actually wrote your name in my post, but then deleted it for being obvious.
However, your work on the Sentech modems drivers are the only OSS kernel work I know of (There are of course lots of people doing closed source stuff, but nevertheless)

I really should have learnt Perl by now, but I have been a Mono/C# person now for so many years. And obviously .Net because of that.

Bah

 

[mbs]

Umm... not that it's relevant to the thread or verifiable as fact, but the guys responsible for the Impi distro did some reworking of the Debian kernel, I'm led to believe...

 

[thisgeek]

As for OSS, I remember reading about a local guy that started out developing OpenBSD or some other fairly well known BSD variant. I read it quite awhile ago, so my memory is very sketchy.

 

[Maskie]

As for OSS, I remember reading about a local guy that started out developing OpenBSD or some other fairly well known BSD variant. I read it quite awhile ago, so my memory is very sketchy.

The guy is called Theo de Raadt and yes he is South African by birth by as far as I know he has not lived in SA for very long. He started OpenBSB.