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by fpierfed 7y ago
I am writing this with sadness and frustration in my heart. The only issue I have found seriously limiting my ability to use my own self hosted email server is the deliberate decision of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to make it hard for me to
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by fpierfed 7y ago
IRAM | System Administrator | Granada, Spain | ONSITE | VISA | Full Time IRAM (iram-institute.org) is an international research organisation for millimetre and sub-millimetre astronomy supported by the CNRS (France), the Max-Planck Gesellsc
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by fpierfed 7y ago
This is totally my experience as well. It got so bad that I gave up operating my email server. Anyway, Gmail is getting some heat in this thread and rightfully so. We should however not forget that Microsoft and Yahoo are just as bad if not
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by fpierfed 7y ago
Sure: nice in theory. What about Pinochet’s arrest and non extradition to Spain in 1998 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Aug... ) then?
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by fpierfed 8y ago
Working in a research org: A possible especially in a senior position; B possible; C yes, depending on the project; D possible; E tossup; F quite likely; G possible; H yes; I definitely. Good luck
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by fpierfed 8y ago
I worked with long (>> 24 hours, some times up to a week) complex workflows on big (thousands of nodes) clusters. We used custom software layered on top of a job scheduler like PBS Pro or HTCondor. The nice thing about this setup is t
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by fpierfed 9y ago
For Europe, I used https://www.eurojobsites.com as well as the job vacancy sections of individual companies and organizations. Each country tends to have its job boards as well (e.g. https://www.jobs.ch/en/
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by fpierfed 9y ago
Well, I lived in seven different countries so far. I never moved to another country without a job. This is not to say that it cannot be done of course. It is just that I never did it. Finding a job in a country other than the one where you
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by fpierfed 9y ago
I agree. Also, we should not forget that there is a significant difference between rights and charity. Rights, once won, are hard to revoke. Charity can be taken away at any time.
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by fpierfed 9y ago
You can expect to write software with a long (10+ years) shelf life in astronomy. Especially if you write observatory infrastructure code. Things like data-flow software, science archive code, pipelines etc. Also most end-user analysis soft
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by fpierfed 15y ago
"In general I found having a car was a pretty key part of living in Boston". I would agree with that assuming that you live in and/or want to go out of Boston for whatever reason (work, visiting friends, etc.). I live in Beacon Hill without