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Question: Many people are saying all over the internet that Studio One 4 copied lots of features from REAPER. What's your opinion regarding this? ;)
Asked by Yay! (220.158.145.x) on June 13 2018, 4:33pm
Reply on June 13 2018, 6:53pm:
    I haven't used it, but in general I don't think that's really a problem (everybody copies everybody else some amount of the time, otherwise software would be completely unique and useless).
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Question: Got an old thinkpad for Linux/Reaper. Are you running Debian stable for linux development and daily use?
Asked by Travis (70.178.64.x) on June 12 2018, 4:40pm
Reply on June 12 2018, 5:45pm:
    Debian stable on 2 diff linux machines, Ubuntu 18.04 on another, and Ubuntu xenial-on-crouton-on-ChromeOS on an ARM Chromebook.
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Question: As you are a very great programmer, I want to know from where I can learn programming, from basics to advance, online. Any good websites?
Asked by Abhi (61.2.249.x) on June 12 2018, 1:17pm
Reply on June 12 2018, 3:26pm:
    Ah thank you for the kind words... I started learning programming decades ago so it's hard for me to know where the best place is to start these days. I'm clueless!
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Question: G Morning Frank. I am curious about how many people is working around Reaper to keep it so so so updated. I imagine something like a loft with a bunch of people happily working, each one developing in a new feature or fixing something. By the way, ¿Que tal tu español?
Asked by Javier (195.235.163.x) on June 12 2018, 7:13am
Reply on June 12 2018, 1:15pm:


    I studied some spanish in highschool and remember some but if I were to answer in spanish it would be very broken and use strange vocabulary I imagine ;)
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Question: I didn't know New York had beaches! I had to google it. When I think of NY, I think of rats, subways, and agressive cops. Are the beaches as nice as Florida's or the Caribbean?
Asked by Mommy (76.110.183.x) on June 12 2018, 4:28am
Reply on June 12 2018, 1:15pm:
    The beaches in the rockaways are nice! Not *that* nice, but pretty nice!
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Question: How does this make you feel? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/0...
Asked by Will (50.84.190.x) on June 11 2018, 2:43pm
Reply on June 11 2018, 3:04pm (edited at June 11 2018, 3:05pm):
    Ugh I think all software patents need to go. Five years ago I'd say "well google is probably doing it defensively so that nobody else can, they have a good track record of that (look at their open video codec stuff)", but these days who knows. :(
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Question: Do you have morning rituals? (if yes, can you name some?)
Asked by Georgy (172.250.71.x) on June 11 2018, 12:35am
Reply on June 11 2018, 1:00am:
    Coffee is the biggest. I spent some time at the beach and really enjoyed swimming in the mornings, maybe I can work that in.
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Question: If you wouldn't be developing Reaper, what kind of software would you be developing instead? /MS from Sweden
Asked by MS2000 (77.218.242.x) on June 10 2018, 7:58pm
Reply on June 11 2018, 1:00am:
    Hah I have no idea.
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Question: Are you going at some point hire more people at Cockos or do you plan to stay as a duo in the forseeable future?
Asked by Magnus (155.4.132.x) on June 9 2018, 6:17pm
Reply on June 10 2018, 1:41am:
    No plans either way -- I will say that I'm not a terribly good manager, or at least that I don't enjoy managing people, so that's a bit limiting.
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Question: Can you tell the reason why you avoid them (voice-recognizing AI thingy)?
Asked by fujimotos (153.236.103.x) on June 9 2018, 3:39pm
Reply on June 10 2018, 1:40am:
    No reason, just don't see the point (prefer to type on a real keyboard!)
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Question: What is your feeling about Cortana? Do you like the feature?
Asked by fujimotos (153.236.103.x) on June 9 2018, 2:04am
Reply on June 9 2018, 2:34pm:
    I never use Siri or Cortana, and have them disabled on all of my devices.
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Question: How are you today?
Asked by Javier (195.235.163.x) on June 8 2018, 8:12am
Reply on June 9 2018, 2:35pm:
    Pretty good, overall? Had a good swim this morning.
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Question: Have you ever smoked weed? Do you know any weed smokers who were capable of writing good code?
Asked by Mommy (76.110.183.x) on June 7 2018, 9:39pm
Reply on June 8 2018, 12:56am:
    Yes, but I try not to code while intoxicated. I know one programmer who smoked a ton and also produced great code... don’t think he smokes as much these days, though...
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Question: Do you have a family foundation or donor-advised fund, or otherwise do any kind of philanthropy?
Asked by Nord Lead (96.89.239.x) on June 7 2018, 7:11pm
Reply on June 7 2018, 7:41pm:
    No family foundation, but we do give to a number of nonprofits. Also: more and more lately, to political campaigns...
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Question: Are you concerned about climate change?
Asked by Nord Lead (173.14.146.x) on June 7 2018, 3:03pm
Reply on June 7 2018, 5:18pm:
    Absolutely!
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Question: In m3u-playlist head is given:#EXTM3U..tvg-shift="-1"..;and [...]
Asked by Michael (79.211.247.x) on June 6 2018, 12:34pm
Reply on June 6 2018, 4:23pm:
    Hell if I know I haven't touched #EXTM3U in 15 years probably, tvg-shift= is over my head.
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Question: Apple will (deprecate) OpenGL starting from 10.15. What's the direction for LICE, MoltenVK (Vulkan) or Metal? Does that mean an upgraded toolchain too?
Asked by Gio (62.103.216.x) on June 5 2018, 11:11am
Reply on June 6 2018, 4:22pm:
    Doesn't really affect us since we use ancient Cocoa drawing APIs still. Though eventually we'll want to deal with it, probably. Procrastination is always a good thing (eventually)...
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Question: What kind of hobbies do you share with you wife and can you tell the most recent funny/interesting story?
Asked by Georgy (172.250.71.x) on June 5 2018, 7:27am
Reply on June 6 2018, 4:21pm:
    We both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about. And quoting movies. And riding bicycles, and the great saunter.
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Question: Will the WavPack version in REAPER be updated anytime soon? Version 5.1 was released in Jan 2017. What are your thoughts about recording directly to WavPack instead of WAV?
Asked by Michael (47.184.86.x) on June 4 2018, 8:37pm
Reply on June 5 2018, 12:02am (edited at June 5 2018, 12:03am):
    Ah perhaps, yeah (though not sure anything in 5.1 would even apply to the reaper plug-in). I record to wavpack rather than .wav a lot of the time! It uses more CPU but usually when recording I have a ton of CPU to spare (even on a very old C2Q).
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Question: Your thoughts on Microsoft acquiring GitHub?
Asked by fladd (131.174.45.x) on June 4 2018, 3:14pm
Reply on June 4 2018, 7:25pm:
    GitHubLinkedIn ugh. But I dunno really.
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