Take care, Erick. Thanks for all your contributions. Lots of people will miss you. I wish you all the best.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:09 PM Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> 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: " > erick.erick...@gmail.com". 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: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
