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 very interesting comment, Jud. It would be good to hear a bit more about these audible artifacts you noticed. At what moment do they occur in the track "Sprawl"? What do they sound like to you? Have you tried another ripper - I'm not familiar with MusicBee, but one possibility must be that the process generated errors that were audible in the MusicBee rip. What is your DAC? I don't think I have this CD but I'd love to experiment with it if I did (especially since I'm using a different platform than you are).
Nice interview, Jen! This is a very cool thing. It will be interesting to see if any other manufacturers build on the open source nature of this system.