Eric, thanks so much for your open and true words! You will always be part of this community if you subscribed to the lists or not. (you can't escape :D) Thanks for your contributions, this is a team effort and you are a part of it.
enjoy the welding!! simon On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:09 PM Erick Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 40 years is enough. OK, it's only been 39 1/2 years. Dear Lord, has it really > been that long? Programming's been fun, I've gotten to solve puzzles every > day. The art and science of programming has changed over that time. Let me > tell you about the joys of debugging with a Z80 stack emulator that required > that you to look on the stack for variables and trace function calls by > knowing how to follow frame pointers. Oh the tedium! Oh the (lack of) speed! > Not to mention that 64K of memory was all you had to work with. I had a > co-worker who could predict the number of bytes by which the program would > shrink based on extracting common code to functions. The "good old > days"...weren't... > > I'd been thinking that I'd treat Lucene/Solr as a hobby, doing occasional > work on it when I was bored over long winter nights. I've discovered, though, > that I've been increasingly reluctant to crack open the code. I guess that > after this much time, I'm ready to hang up my spurs. One major factor is the > realization that there's so much going on with Lucene/Solr that simply being > aware of the changes, much less trying to really understand them, isn't > something I can do casually. > > I bought a welder and find myself more interested in playing with that than > programming. Wait until you see the squirrel-proof garden enclosure I'm > building with it. If my initial plan doesn't work, next up is an electric > fence along the top. The laser-sighted automatic machine gun emplacement will > take more planning...Ahhh, probably won't be able to get a permit from the > township for that though. Do you think the police would notice? Perhaps I > should add that the local police station is two blocks away and in the line > of fire. But an infrared laser powerful enough to "pre-cook" them wouldn't be > as obvious would it? > > Why am I so fixated on squirrels? One of the joys of gardening is fresh > tomatoes rather than those red things they sell in the store. The squirrels > ATE EVERY ONE OF MY TOMATOES WHILE THEY WERE STILL GREEN LAST YEAR! And the > melons. In the words of B. Bunny: "Of course you realize this means war" > (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNr-BQgpd0)... > > Then there's working in the garden and landscaping, the desk I want to build > for my wife, travel as soon as I can, maybe seeing if some sailboats need > crew...you get the idea. > > It's been a privilege to work with this group, you're some of the best and > brightest. Many thanks to all who've generously given me their time and > guidance. It's been a constant source of amazement to me how willing people > are to take time out of their own life and work to help me when I've had > questions. I owe a lot of people beers ;) > > I'll be stopping my list subscriptions, Slack channels (dm me if you need > something), un-assigning any JIRAs and that kind of thing over the next > while. If anyone's interested in taking over the BadApple report, let me know > and I can put the code up somewhere. It takes about 10 minutes to do each > week. I won't disappear entirely, things like the code-reformatting effort > are nicely self-contained for instance and something I can to casually. > > My e-mail address if you need to get in touch with me is: > "[email protected]". There's a correlation between gmail addresses > that are just a name with no numbers and a person's age... A co-worker came > over to my desk in pre-historical times and said "there's this new mail > service you might want to sign up for"... Like I said, 40 years is enough. > > Best to all, > Erick > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
