Hey Erick, I'm sorry for our users and for the project overall to hear you'll be "hanging up the spurs", but excited that you've found new, fun things to expand into in your retirement! I hope they're awesome!
Best of luck man, it's been great working with you! Best, Jason On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 1:05 PM Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
