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 your comments, Tom Potts. However you are incorrect when you state "no one has ever successfully identified difference s in 16 bit and above or CD and higher sample rates of uncompressed files". I direct you to the Audio Engineering Society metastudy I mentioned in my article.
With regard to recording at 24 bits, I prefer to receive my music in that bit depth rather than being massaged into 16 bits. YMMV!
Thanks for the comments, David C. I agree with your points and your conclusions. Moreover, if the music in question was mastered at say 96/24 then I prefer to receive it that way, rather than further - and gratuitously - converted to 44.1/16. Conversely, if an album I want is only available at 44.1/16 or even MP3 then I'll take it the way it is.