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Question: Will you ever design a ReaLimiter?
Asked by Jogger (175.33.6.x) on October 20 2014, 3:13am
Reply on October 21 2014, 4:58pm:
    Maybe?
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Question: is WDL_FIXALIGN still required with CLANG?
Asked by olilarkin (86.31.114.x) on October 19 2014, 10:26pm
Reply on October 20 2014, 3:10am (edited at October 20 2014, 3:13am):
    You could test with the following code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    struct foo {
      int x;
      double y;
      int z;
    };
    
    int main() { printf("fixalign needed: %d\n",sizeof(struct foo) == 16); return 0; }
    
    Edit: I just tested, it is needed for 32 bit clang, but not for 64 bit. I'm guessing clang tries to be ABI-compatible with gcc, so this would make sense. clang doesn't appear to support -malign-double (which gcc usually does).
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Question: Is it hard to start a hardware business in US or elsewhere? I assume you had done some kind of research the Jesusonic years.
Asked by gio (94.66.26.x) on October 18 2014, 4:37am
Reply on October 18 2014, 2:41pm:
    I only looked a little bit, enough to decide it was too much work. I'd imagine it's doable if you want to do high margin/low quantity, or if you outsource production elsewhere (I have a friend who did that with the 3doodler, but he'd done it before and has spent/is spending a lot of time in China).
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Question: What brand/model piano do you have?
Asked by Tale (81.204.113.x) on October 17 2014, 5:50pm
Reply on October 18 2014, 2:39pm:
    I have a 1987 Steinway S. I'm not worthy, though.
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Question: Are you still on an old ass version of Quickbooks? I'm using 2010, but dread the PITA of upgrading and reorienting myself to the new interface.
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 17 2014, 5:00pm
Reply on October 18 2014, 2:39pm:
    Yeah 2007 on XP here, hah. I did also use 2013 for some stuff, it was fine, but really no reason for me to upgrade.
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Question: Do you ever internally translate "sharding" to "sharting" and chuckle?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 17 2014, 12:38am
Reply on October 17 2014, 1:33pm:
    I must confess that I don't often encounter the word "sharding"
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Question: How old is gerard way
Asked by Milly (64.223.234.x) on October 16 2014, 2:12am
Reply on October 17 2014, 1:33pm:
    The Google told me who he is, and how old he is.
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Question: what is the description of a sports store super visor
Asked by Richard El Hage (89.108.151.x) on October 15 2014, 4:05pm
Reply on October 17 2014, 1:33pm:
    Everything is awesome
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Question: What are your thoughts on moving bitcoin's proof of work to protein folding? There is much resistance in the community. would you think of bitcoin as a more useful tool for humanity if protein folding becomes the proof of work for bitcoin?
Asked by JayMan (70.192.133.x) on October 15 2014, 2:30am
Reply on October 15 2014, 2:18pm:
    That would be awesome, but it would be unfortunate if people came up with ways to cheat and produce useless results that still resulted in them having earned currency...
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Question: Did you ever use wasabi technology again?
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on October 14 2014, 7:53am
Reply on October 14 2014, 2:35pm:
    Nope
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Question: do you hate eclipse?
Asked by Ruchira (103.247.48.x) on October 14 2014, 2:17am
Reply on October 14 2014, 2:35pm (edited at October 14 2014, 2:36pm):
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Question: What do you all day?
Asked by Patrick (70.114.207.x) on October 13 2014, 5:54pm
Reply on October 14 2014, 2:35pm (edited at October 14 2014, 2:37pm):
    My activities often include: programming, testing, recording music, practicing piano, bookkeeping, support emailing, running, eating, drinking coffee, cycling, reading (fiction and news), listening to music, watching of movies/tv shows, other more personal things, etc.
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Question: From historical recounts of winamp, it seems you started development life on unix before learning Win32. How did that occur? Why did you start on unix?
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on October 11 2014, 5:03pm
Reply on October 11 2014, 7:02pm:
    I did BASIC on the Atari 8-bit, then didn't program much for some years until I had a 386sx and Turbo Pascal, which was awesome, then Turbo C++, then eventually Watcom C++, then djgpp, around that time I also got an early distribution of slackware (on floppies!), which was fun and was a much better experience than Windows 3.1 (hooray, memory protection and preemptive multitasking). I was still programming stuff on djggp and linux (and sunos once I had access to sparcstations in school), when Windows 95 was released, and it took a while after that before I had good enough hardware to use it. Then there was the task of learning win32, Winamp ended up being a good project to do that with.
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Question: Ever considered further plugin development? I mean, surely there are some leading plugins that you must look at and think "I can do that better.
Asked by Mick (27.127.192.x) on October 9 2014, 10:27pm
Reply on October 10 2014, 12:22pm:
    I imagine that we'll add more plug-ins to REAPER eventually, but meh.
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Question: Do you spotify?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 8 2014, 9:57pm
Reply on October 10 2014, 12:22pm:
    No, and I also avoid using words such as "spotify" and "party" as verbs.
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Question: Have you seen a nightmare lately? tinyurl.com/o2omuw4 --- I mean... how shitty specifications like CSS become the de facto standard?
Asked by gio (94.66.87.x) on October 8 2014, 6:37am
Reply on October 10 2014, 12:21pm:
    Hah. I phear CSS
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Question: Did you try bribing Christophe to stay?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 7 2014, 9:31pm
Reply on October 10 2014, 12:21pm:
    It wouldn't really be bribing, I don't think.
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Question: Are you as committed to efficient coding as when you started REAPER or does laziness creep in? Do you perceive laziness in other apps/OS?
Asked by Colin (150.101.85.x) on October 7 2014, 2:32am
Reply on October 7 2014, 6:59pm:
    I'm definitely as committed to making things as small and simple as possible, but am also a bit less dedicated to some of the more platform-specific size optimizations (i.e. using msvcrt.dll on win32), as they are somewhat hacks. I think generally I'd aim for quality as the top priority, then speed and size, with tradeoffs between them generally going towards speed (for commonly used functions anyway).
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Question: Re: Feynman, does it all make sense to you? I tried in the past but the math flies over my head and i end up feeling defeated and stupid. :)
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 6 2014, 6:43pm
Reply on October 7 2014, 7:00pm:
    I haven't read it all (or anywhere close to all) but what I have read made sense, though I haven't gone and applied it. Having said that, most of what I read I think I already had learned elsewhere... but having a good aggregation of it all is awesome.
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Question: When reaper first came out, it had a song include which I liked but have since lost it. You recall the name of the song?
Asked by Erik (67.172.70.x) on October 5 2014, 7:39pm
Reply on October 6 2014, 12:32pm:
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