We just started to build the core of our Trust and Safety group in Amsterdam. We are building/evolving our infrastructure to be correct by design to scale the system for more complex products, larger teams and higher qps. If this is something you've seen/done before and/or are willing to take a stab at it, join us!
Databricks | Senior Staff Software Engineer | Onsite (SF Bay area and Seattle areas only) | Full Time | https://www.databricks.com
We are building the core of the Trust and Safety org at Databricks (Abuse, Security and Privacy/Compliance). We plan to build/evolve our infrastructure to be correct by design to scale the system for more complex products, larger teams and higher qps. If this is something you've seen/done before and/or are willing to take a stab at it, join us!
Databricks | Senior Staff Software Engineer | Onsite (SF Bay area and Seattle areas only) | Full Time | https://www.databricks.com
We are building the core of the Trust and Safety org at Databricks (Abuse, Security and Privacy/Compliance). We plan to build/evolve our infrastructure to be correct by design to scale the system for more complex products, larger teams and higher qps.
This is an exciting space and time to join!
I've been using GitLab instead of GitHub recently for all my new projects and honestly there's nothing worse than GitHub and a few things are better - like having protected branches and master by default in it -, private respositories etc.
That being said, what both GitHub and GitLab are missing is actually becoming a "social network" or maybe more an active network. There are tons of interesting projects that pops up every day, that I would be interested in knowing about, contributing, but there's basically no way to learn about them.
Is their service that good? As a current T-Mobile US customer, it looks like I can get an equivalent plan from Sprint for approximately the same cost, mostly thanks to T-Mobile's aggressive competition.
I was on Tmobile for 3 years and I would say it is a budget carrier through and through. You don't go to it because it has good signal, good customer service, will work on road trips, etc. You get it because its cheaper than the rest.
I honestly thought my tmobile service wasnt bad. They gave me a free router (well lent me) and "signal booster"
The bad? On both of those things, when I went to tmobile store to return them, after about a 30 minute wait they said "You can't return it here, it came from corporate. You have to mail it"
Corporate said "No they should return it to the store."
Went back to the store and the store manager wouldnt accept it because he said when he would send them to corporate they would mark them as unreturned and charge the customer.
Went to another store. Same thing. Said corporate messed up returns.
There seems to be a very big disconnect between Tmobile stores and corporate. So much so that I canceled my service.
I'm no longer a T-Mobile customer because sadly their service does not work at my house. To fix that, I moved to Project Fi, partly because it adds Sprint as coverage (and I knew that Sprint worked here), but partly because it supports WiFi calling and handoff really well, and even if I don't have signal, I generally have WiFi.
T-Mobile's service, where it has coverage, tended to always be really quite good. That said, the thing I think people like about TMo is more about how they treat their customers than how good their network is.
Their Jump upgrade plan is (to my knowledge) the best in the business, and being contract-less is absolutely wonderful.
I didn't always love having T-Mobile as a carrier, but I just about always loved being a T-Mobile customer.
I've had friends who couldn't get their Sprint service to work on major streets in downtown Chicago, but my T-Mobile service worked on the Playa at Burning Man, not to mention that I get free edge data in 140 countries:
"Only from T-Mobile, our Simple Choice Plan makes it simple for you to stay in touch while you explore the world. Now get unlimited data and texting in 95% of the places you travel most—140+ countries and destinations around the globe. Oh, and calls? They’re just 20 cents a minute."
Hrm, anecdotally I've had real trouble with international data roaming in places I'd have expected to be decently covered with cell service, like cafes in Leith. It's a nice bonus when it works, but since it's not even reliable enough for emergencies, it's not worth any carrier loyalty. I'm curious if it worked for you.
Isn't Commnet trying to provide actual cell service at Burning Man? I feel like if you have a company specifically trying to make cell service work in the middle of the desert, with no metal buildings anywhere, it's totally unsurprising that it works.
Which the 7 years prior to jumping over to T-Mobile a year ago has shown me to be an awful thing to have happen to you in life.
At this point I'd rather pay the obscene data fees at Verizon or AT&T before switching back to Sprint, where LTE coverage drops randomly (I actually liked their WiMax network significantly more!), you get text messages two days later, and phone calls to you just never arrive despite ringing and ringing on the caller's end.
Unfortunately not - NV was rolled out in my area in 2012, so I had quite a few years on NetworkVision. It was a marginal improvement at best, and I kinda feel like I'm being a bit generous in calling it an improvement at all.
NV in my region gave a many fold improvement on data performance, voice performance came later (when the NV network launched here - even when done on 80% of the sites - there were still huge dropped call issues, because of the inability to handover between legacy and NV, and because of a lack of meaningful optimizations on the new network)
If you were deployment in 2012 - you must be in Chicago since that was the launch market - Chicago had more problems then the next 4 NV markets combined, huge build quality issues, most of which have been resolved now.
Even then - with NV you didnt see real improvement in most areas until the launch was complete, which took a hell of a long time - 2ish years for Seattle, longer elsewhere.
NV for those not in the know was an forklift upgrade of the sprint network, and involved wholesale replacement of everything from the Antennas to the Switch.
Hum, this is disturbing. I would be curious to know how much malware is actually served over HTTPS and what good alternative to Avast is out there for Windows.
I'd bet that eventually all malware will be served over HTTPS. Movements to encrypt all traffic, like Let's Encrypt, will only hasten this. (Not saying LE is bad, but that's just how it works... it's a cat-and-mouse game.)
We just started to build the core of our Trust and Safety group in Amsterdam. We are building/evolving our infrastructure to be correct by design to scale the system for more complex products, larger teams and higher qps. If this is something you've seen/done before and/or are willing to take a stab at it, join us!
https://www.databricks.com/company/careers/engineering/staff... If you want to directly reach out: michel@databricks.com