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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David C, thanks for the comments. We really need to get you into an open-source recording and playback chain! iTunes, yikes!
Just a coda to this; the February Stereophile magazine, in its review of the MBL Noble Line N31, mentions this issue of intersample overs and that device's ability to cope with such a thing, identifying "multiple instances of consecutive samples at 0dBFS that would result in intersample overs" (stereophile.com February 2018 page 81). So recording with peaks at 0dBFS - definitely not recommended.