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Question: Did Ruby enter into the conversation when it came to adding more scripting languages? How do you feel about that language in general?
Asked by Punky Brewster (76.226.51.x) on September 21 2015, 4:05pm
Reply on September 22 2015, 1:29pm:
    It didn't. I don't know much about Ruby, is it designed to be integrated into other applications? Lua really does a good job at that...
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Question: I love the reaplugins. Can you make a Realimiter. My plugings will be complete if you do.
Asked by TeaCoffeeSleep (175.32.10.x) on September 21 2015, 1:11pm
Reply on September 21 2015, 3:11pm:
    I just use eventhorizon2, it is my favorite!
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Question: Maybe I'm mixing up who I met him with then.. I thought it was you! Could've sworn! Do you visit SF / talk to Steve / etc?
Asked by Numair (187.210.189.x) on September 21 2015, 2:37am
Reply on September 21 2015, 3:11pm:
    I do get to see them, happily! though it usually ends up being in places other than SF.
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Question: Tough math question: How many hookers does it take to kake a stable?
Asked by Punky Brewster (76.226.51.x) on September 19 2015, 11:34pm
Reply on September 20 2015, 12:31am:
    a metric stable? errr
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Question: Today I remembered meeting Darren Aronofsky with you in SF when I was 16. lol ... Do you still talk to any of the old Nullsoft crew? Still on IRC?
Asked by Numair (189.217.18.x) on September 19 2015, 7:40pm
Reply on September 19 2015, 10:02pm:
    wait what, I've met Darren Aronofsky?!
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Question: www.twitch.tv/handmade_hero/v/16401283 @7m
Asked by Random Dude (94.60.120.x) on September 18 2015, 2:57am
Reply on September 19 2015, 1:45am:
    ah nice, thank you!
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Question: Reaper appeared on today's stream of handmade hero :)
Asked by Random Dude (94.60.120.x) on September 17 2015, 3:06am
Reply on September 17 2015, 1:43pm:
    Ah, don't see it, which day is that? (or is it a day behind, the recorded ones?) and at what time?
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Question: Javascript eh? Have you tried out React or Node?
Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 15 2015, 9:43pm
Reply on September 17 2015, 1:43pm:
    I played with node.js a little, but it's more fun in the browser...
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Question: How did you become an expert at programming. And also what programming languages do you like?
Asked by Vivek (202.83.19.x) on September 14 2015, 8:14am
Reply on September 14 2015, 2:19pm:
    I'm an amateur! At this point I find Javascript to be sort of the most enjoyable, but I'm much better at C and C++. PHP is also a good time. Perl has a certain minimalist elegance that I like too, but I'm really terrible with it.
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Question: Did it really sound terrible, or was it placebo because you knew about the rounding errors?
Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 11 2015, 9:34pm
Reply on September 12 2015, 4:42pm:
    Terrible is subjective, but let's just say non-transparent...
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Question: On Sept 3 2009 on here you said you have nitrane source on a CD-R. Were you lying then or lying now? haha :P
Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 8 2015, 10:56pm
Reply on September 9 2015, 5:47pm (edited at September 10 2015, 2:37pm):
    When I moved to NY I got rid of / destroyed a lot of old things (whether there was an old CD-R with Winamp code on it, I have no idea -- but I can tell you with certainty now that I don't have anything).

    Also: Who cares? It was a bunch of optimizations for CPUs which nobody uses anymore, and modern CPUs crush it. Also the MMX optimizations, for example, involved a lot of integer rounding errors that made it sound terrible.
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Question: Would it be interesting to rethink the way DAW�s have traditionally drawn graphics by implementing more GPU processing? I have the feeling that if the graphics and audio �fields� merge a little more lot�s of new user interface capabilities and workflow paradigms would emerge. How would a DAW feel like if it was built around GPU accelerated graphics? (Editing
Asked by Oblong (92.250.121.x) on September 6 2015, 11:25pm
Reply on September 7 2015, 2:43am:
    I don't think it would be that interesting, the graphical rendering portion isn't really the bottleneck, generally, and also sending lots of data to the GPU has more potential to interrupt audio, IMO.
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Question: *sigh* how do you have the highschool email program still up on 1014, but nitrane code only exists on a failing CD-R in storage somewhere? isn't that a bit ironic that the bits that gave you everything you have are least coddled? haha :P
Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 6 2015, 5:33am
Reply on September 6 2015, 7:10pm:
    I destroyed all copies of Winamp code that I had when I left AOL, it wasn't mine to keep!
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Question: Did you highschool email program use any of the Netware APIs, or did it just read/write to a central shared file on a network drive?
Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 5 2015, 4:18am
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Question: What DAW (besides Reaper) are you most impressed with lately? Updates frequency, proper priority, direction in which the software is heading and all that jazz.
Asked by Chris (159.205.22.x) on September 4 2015, 9:19pm
Reply on September 5 2015, 5:48am:
    I don't really look at the others much.
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Question: Why are you doing more interviews lately? Suddenly all chatty! :) I enjoyed this one: youtube.com/watch?v=oMz4uBxoEYo
Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 3 2015, 9:34pm
Reply on September 4 2015, 6:53am:
    Just happened to get requests from nice people in town... :)
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Question: I code shitty C# winform apps in Visual Studio so Design/Designer View is where the app's GUI is created/modified by dragging and dropping. I'd love to see the environment that allows you to write code and modify REAPER's GUI. Please???
Asked by Digaldeman (99.173.156.x) on September 3 2015, 5:39am
Reply on September 3 2015, 7:28pm:
    We don't really have that, other than visual studio's dialog editor for designing dialog boxes...
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Question: Can you share (record) your screen while you code for a few seconds? Show us the code view as well as the design view. Please, please, please?
Asked by Digaldeman (99.173.156.x) on September 2 2015, 7:19pm
Reply on September 2 2015, 8:55pm (edited at September 2 2015, 8:56pm):
    Heh I was thinking actually I might have something that would be fun to show. Having said that, I code in various environments from xcode 6 to VC6 to VS2013 to vim, so if I did do it it would just be a random snapshot and not indicative of all things...

    Also, design view?! What's that?
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Question: Thanks for maintaining lwa.blorp.com ... Is that a question?
Asked by Hugh / iomegajaz (203.8.131.x) on September 2 2015, 4:23am
Reply on September 2 2015, 8:56pm:
    Sure haha it's silly but happy to be able to have preserved it.
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Question: Roughly how many lines of code is Reaper now?
Asked by PunkyBrewster (69.212.228.x) on September 1 2015, 6:25pm
Reply on September 1 2015, 6:53pm:
    reaper.exe, not including WDL/, around 350k I think, including blank lines and comments and everything.
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