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Question: I'm about to write a small Win32 program to myself, which needs to play MP3 files. What library do you recommend?
Asked by Rodrigo (187.115.50.x) on June 4 2017, 4:46am
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Question: How many men must a road walk down, before it can call itself a road?
Asked by IXix (86.160.199.x) on June 3 2017, 7:07pm
Reply on June 3 2017, 8:56pm:
    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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Question: Do you use UML for your products?
Asked by Vitali (212.87.13.x) on June 2 2017, 5:39pm
Reply on June 3 2017, 8:55pm:
    Nosir
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Question: What have you been working on lately? How many hours per week do you spend coding?
Asked by Mommy (99.173.156.x) on May 31 2017, 6:11pm
Reply on June 3 2017, 8:55pm:
    Various things, REAPER for linux is one of them. Hours per week -- the last week I took off, so about 5. Normally more than that, but I don't really keep track.
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Question: While I'm here I'd like to take the chance to ask you s.th. but nothing comes to mind. What to do ?
Asked by wasereb4 (79.246.87.x) on May 30 2017, 12:34am
Reply on June 3 2017, 8:55pm:
    Climb a mountain!
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Question: How many road must a man walk down, before he can call himself a man?
Asked by IXix (109.147.109.x) on May 27 2017, 8:38pm
Reply on May 29 2017, 3:36pm:
    were there not men before there were roads?
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Question: Have you ever felt like a failure? Can you describe what it was, if so?
Asked by Will (71.11.219.x) on May 22 2017, 12:14am
Reply on May 22 2017, 3:26pm:
    Usually that's when I'm tired and emotional
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Question: I would love to read an article about the challenges while making REAPER multi-threaded. Is OOP good enough for parallelism and what's your thoughts about DOD?
Asked by Balloonist (79.130.165.x) on May 19 2017, 4:06pm
Reply on May 22 2017, 3:26pm:
    Hah, well I could try to remember the things I did a decade ago, but...
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Question: Are there any technical limitations to supporting more than 62/64 hardware MIDI I/O? Not asking as a FR/fix, just genuinely curious.
Asked by EvilDragon (213.202.92.x) on May 17 2017, 3:03pm
Reply on May 18 2017, 1:40pm:
    We have an int64 mask for enabled bits for devices, that's about the only limitation. The other places should handle it OK.
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Question: Is MP3 encoding/decoding coming in REAPER now that the patents expired?
Asked by Balloonist (79.131.91.x) on May 13 2017, 7:36pm
Reply on May 18 2017, 1:40pm:
    Probably, though there's some noise about two patents that expire in August and December.
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Question: Can I shallow clone your WDL repo somehow (for SWS dev) ? Apparently shallow cloning doesn't work via http. / re: shallow clone, solved,used your GitHub mirror instead.
Asked by wasereb4 (79.246.82.x) on May 10 2017, 7:32pm
Reply on May 10 2017, 10:22pm:
    Our WDL repository is pretty small anyway
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Question: Will Reaper be open source one day?
Asked by Sijmen Koffeman (83.132.230.x) on May 9 2017, 7:43pm
Reply on May 10 2017, 10:22pm (edited at May 10 2017, 10:23pm):
    Not any time soon... I have toyed with the idea of making v.999 GPL, maybe sooner rather than later (already over 10 years, eep!)
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Question: You see all these tutorials about coding these days. They talk about C++, Python, etc. However, it seems like just basic tutorial stuff most of the time. But, what is the best way to learn so one can really create valuable stuff like Winamp?
Asked by Todd (75.64.80.x) on May 8 2017, 1:36am
Reply on May 8 2017, 1:26pm:
    Once you get proficient at the basic stuff then you build useful things on top of it...
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Question: I posted a thread (reaper.fm) that packaging reaper for the Store on W10 is not a technical complication. Can we expect to see Reaper in the Windows (Microsoft) Store? Dont you think students access to Reaper even if they're on 10S is a good idea?
Asked by Sijmen Koffeman (83.132.230.x) on May 7 2017, 1:45pm
Reply on May 7 2017, 9:36pm:
    Choosing whether to participate in an entirely different ecosystem is a complex decision, and I don't think you can unequivocally say that there is no technical complication.
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Question: Will you post a picture of your workstation setup (screens and overall workspace)?
Asked by Will (71.11.219.x) on May 6 2017, 12:05am
Reply on May 6 2017, 2:10am:
    Tomorrow when there's more light I will, now it's too dark to get the screen and physical desktop...
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Question: What's your ideal screen size/config for coding?
Asked by Paul (188.220.162.x) on May 4 2017, 3:54pm
Reply on May 6 2017, 2:09am:
    27" at 2560x1440 is pretty nice... a second monitor for debug output can be nice, but not a big deal.
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Question: If you were to articulate what makes "Ok Computer" such a great album, what would you say?
Asked by Will (50.84.190.x) on May 4 2017, 2:36pm
Reply on May 4 2017, 2:40pm:
    Great songs that go well together, with outstanding performances and engineering? Or something. And a soul.
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Question: Why ___pad in certain classes became public:? Thanks.
Asked by Gio (94.70.23.x) on May 2 2017, 7:21am
Reply on May 3 2017, 4:34pm:
    gcc would complain about unused private members
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Question: I'm about to write a small Win32 program which needs MP4 video playback. What library do you recommend?
Asked by Rodrigo (177.204.35.x) on April 30 2017, 7:27pm
Reply on May 1 2017, 2:47am:
    Unfortunately there's really no good solution that I can recommend. There is a Win8+ API for MP4 decoding, but I don't think it's very straightforward to use, and you can use FFmpeg, but it's also very not straightforward. I'd probably recommend the latter, though.
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Question: What are your thoughts on online anonymity and projects like Tor? Shall one use it?
Asked by asafonov (192.42.116.x) on April 25 2017, 7:54pm
Reply on April 27 2017, 1:13pm:
    For the most part it seems you're trading one attack vector for another... Ideally you should find a provider that you trust and use them, or VPN through them.

    SSL browsing of course helps things a lot -- so your ISP can see what site you're browsing but not which pages, etc.
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