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Question: when is the last time you had mcdonalds? :P and where's the best burger at
Asked by Other (213.7.9.x) on May 5 2019, 1:14am
Reply on May 5 2019, 12:49pm:

I don't think I've ever had a mcdonalds burger. I do like burgers from In 'n Out (aside from the hate) or Shake Shack though, and from various restaurants around too. Comment...

Question: What is the best cup of coffee you have ever had? At home, coffee shop, etc? And, do you remember what kind ( country of origin )?
Asked by Jercontact (75.83.3.x) on May 4 2019, 6:50am
Reply on May 4 2019, 11:30am:

Hell if I know, but I've had lots of good cups of coffee that were all very different and enjoyable in their own ways... Comment...

Question: If you ever get bored with REAPER and choose to do something else - are you going to sell the company? Or simply stop the development? I hope it won't ever happen, though. :-)
Asked by bassg (90.183.66.x) on May 3 2019, 1:04pm
Reply on May 3 2019, 1:38pm:

Meh hypotheticals... 1 Comment...

Question: I know that White Tie is your long-time friend and it would be incorrect to ask him to step out from the development of V6 theme. Unfortunately his attitude towards feedback and aesthetics of theme development contains huge flaws, that in future correspond to negative feedback form overall user base. Is it possible to ask him present more than one design for public evaluation (mockup, not final version) or create open theme mockup competition for other talented designers (Blankfiles, Commala, Janne83…etc)?
Asked by I know that White Tie is your long-time friend and it would be incorrect to ask him to step out from the development of V6 theme. Unfortunately his attitude towards feedback and aesthetics of theme development contains huge flaws, that in future correspond to negative feedback form overall user base. Is it possible to ask him present more than one design for public evaluation (mockup, not final version) or create opNicholas (149.28.179.x) on May 3 2019, 2:24am
Reply on May 3 2019, 3:29am:

While we value feedback from our user community, at the end of the day I get to make the final decisions on all of this stuff... so, uh, no. 2 Comments...

Question: Is there, in your opinion, a clearly better driver/sysyem between ASIO, ALSA and CoreAudio? Why do you think that Microsoft never developed a built-in low-latency universal driver if even Linux has one?
Asked by Joan (37.159.65.x) on May 2 2019, 11:55pm
Reply on May 3 2019, 3:28am:

CoreAudio: slightly crufty but relatively decent API. Multiple clients (awesome!), floating point, aggregate devices, overall winner IMO.
ASIO: pretty easy API, but missing functionality (nobody seems to implement underrun indicators???), and most drivers don't support multiple clients/routing.
ALSA: moderately clean API, but hard to get right across various drivers, also programmer responsible for scheduling. No multiple-client support.
JACK: probably the best API of all worlds, but configuring it is still a pain

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Question: Is Primus still worthy their own genre and if yes, which songs defines that the most?
Asked by mespotine (109.104.55.x) on May 2 2019, 7:59pm
Reply on May 3 2019, 3:24am:

I'm not sure if they ever were (defining your own genre is meaningless, really) but it was funny anyway ;) Comment...

Question: Is it possible to use LICE to draw a line inside or over a ListView control and be portable with SWELL? What I want to achieve is some kind of indication while the user rearranges the items of the list.
Asked by Gio (79.130.181.x) on May 2 2019, 12:21pm
Reply on May 2 2019, 2:06pm:

You could use the GDI (GetDC() and LineTo() etc), but not LICE exactly. Comment...

Question: Visualize a guinea pig. It turns out this is a magic guinea pig, and your fortunes are now linked. That is, your happiness is tied to its happiness. You must take care of the pig for the next five years. Question: what would you name the piggie?
Asked by Reve (76.93.155.x) on April 30 2019, 5:42am
Reply on May 1 2019, 2:01pm (edited at May 1 2019, 2:02pm):

Number One. And I'd try to do a Picard accent when speaking to it. Comment...

Question: How not to hate the most ridiculous language (C++) ? :) if you started to make REAPER today, would you choose c++ or something different?
Asked by Pony (94.230.207.x) on April 29 2019, 7:28pm
Reply on April 29 2019, 9:34pm:

There's a non-ridiculous subset of C++, IMO. 5 Comments...

Question: Why have you decided to port Reaper to Linux, since nobody else in the industry seems to care? Thank you anyway!
Asked by Gios (93.35.73.x) on April 29 2019, 9:10am
Reply on April 29 2019, 2:17pm:

Because it's good for me, and good for REAPER! Comment...

Question: Cockos' domain is not reachable when the clock is out of sync, is this by design or some default value at the web server? It isn't something that happens often but if you use VMs with snapshots etc the clock might take a while before it syncs etc.
Asked by Gio (79.130.181.x) on April 29 2019, 3:27am
Reply on April 29 2019, 3:33am: