Hi Erick, too bad that you want to leave us. I really hope to see you in person after COVID19 allows us to meet at conferences again. It was always nice discussions with you on the mailing list, although I am not subscribed to solr-user@lao, so the whole work you were doing is not so obvious to me.
About the squirrels: As an European, I have no idea why those grey American squirrels are so aggressive and eat all your tomatoes! https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8w441njq8xvaxd/20210104_185757.jpg?dl=0 (sitting in my garden) Here in Bremen, I have no problem at all with tomatoes and squirrels. The European red squirrels only collect and eat nuts (or to be more correct: they collect nuts and then forget about them, making hazelnut trees grow everywhere in my garden, if you do not destroy them). https://www.dropbox.com/s/e9twup0850vxpdz/20210104_185720.jpg?dl=0 (leftovers of the nuts...) My tomato plants all survived and I was able to harvest this year. Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen https://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 3:09 PM > To: dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Old programmers do fade away > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
