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 coment, Artur, good point! I had called this a number of other things along the way. Probably should change this too.
Trevor, thanks for the comments.
I must say I disagree with many of your recommendations. First of all, the way to get rid of the DC offset is to fix the cables and electronics! Second, let's not run limiters and compress this lovely music! Third, let's not try to make our recordings look as though they came from a CD - the whole point here is to celebrate the strengths of the original, not to turn it into a homogenized CD-safe version of its original beauty!
In my opinion, at least.