Hi Erick, It's been a pleasure and an honor! I know nothing about squirrels or tomatoes (except that the latter are tasty) but I do know about hobbies so I wish you all the best with them!
If you indeed want to be a welder, I am sure that you'll become a good one and probably end up teaching a few folks about it as well :-) Keep us folks in mind and drop us an update from time-to-time. I suggest twitter - it's not new but you might want to sign up for it ;) Take care and have fun! Cheers, Shalin On 1/3/21, Günter Hipler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Erick > > thanks for your work you have done for the library world. > You were one of the people who made it possible to show libraries the > way to use search engines for their "discovery services". > > Günter > > On 30.12.20 15:09, Erick Erickson 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] > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
