Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Thanks for the nice comments, Kyle. Please be cautious about accepting uncritically the xiph.org comments. The AES reference I mention in the article reviews the published results of trials and finds the conclusions about high resolution indicated in the xiph.org article to be incorrect. Personally, I find the idea, advanced on the xiph.org site, that we should avoid accumulating high resolution music because our playback equipment might struggle to reproduce it well to be a bit odd, too - why not instead advocate acquiring equipment that doesn't have problems with the high resolution content?
Aaaaaaaaaanyway, YMMV as they say! and thank YOU for writing!
100% de acuerdo contigo Giovanni!