Thank you Erick for your guidance, mentorship and your contributions. I hope to meet you over Activate, if you're planning to come over (whenever it is organized again). I shall miss you very much. Have a great time, and I hope you secure the tomatoes and come back to Solr soon. :-)
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 8:21 AM Tomoko Uchida <tomoko.uchida.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Erick. > > 40 years is indeed amazing - I'm not sure I can keep up with the > fast-paced industry for that long ;) > Meanwhile, life is also long today, hope to see you again someday. Thank > you for all your contributions. I'll miss you as others will do so. Wish > you all the best. > > Tomoko > > > 2021年1月2日(土) 9:11 Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net>: > >> Hey Erick! >> >> I'm really happy to hear that you have found something that interests you >> even more than programming and open source. It's been great pleasure >> working with you all this while. >> >> Thank you for all your contributions and good luck with the welding >> machine. I'm looking forward to seeing what you build and hope to see you >> when things are safe and we are in the same city :) >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:09 AM 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 >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Anshum Gupta >> >
