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Ask Justin Frankel
No reasonable question unanswered since 2009!

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Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead.

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Question: What do you think of embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder ? [permalink]
Asked by Will (24.234.206.x) on January 27 2012, 6:27pm

Question: Does the corporate angst go away when you quit working for a big company and start working for yourself? [permalink]
Asked by McThib (131.107.0.x) on January 25 2012, 1:00am
Reply on January 27 2012, 6:07pm:

Yeah, once you have new things to obsess over, anyway.

Question: should my prototyped functions have variable names associated with the types? [permalink]
Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on January 24 2012, 9:30pm
Reply on January 27 2012, 6:07pm:

Usually a good idea, and an even better idea to have them be labelled somewhat accurately.

Question: How in the hell does the USA have the rights to Police the INTERNETS!? bit.ly/xEzktQ - is this just the beginning? [permalink]
Asked by AnalSeducer (76.103.105.x) on January 24 2012, 7:45pm
Reply on January 27 2012, 6:07pm:

We gave birth to you, so we can destroy you.

Question: Is this what happened with WinAMP 3? www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html [permalink]
Asked by John (70.173.150.x) on January 24 2012, 5:44pm
Reply on January 27 2012, 6:08pm:

More or less, yeah. It is good advice.

Question: myspace.com/gps/music/songs?filter=featured - great band, just sharing. [permalink]
Asked by travis (70.178.38.x) on January 24 2012, 8:06am
Reply on January 27 2012, 6:08pm:

Will look.

Question: Are you impressed with the iTunes vis, or is it lame compared to what you did in 2000? [permalink]
Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on January 24 2012, 6:55am
Reply on January 27 2012, 6:08pm:

I find that it meets the requirements ([x] visualization support, next!) but is totally uninteresting.

Question: Thoughts on what happened to Megaupload? Man, regardless of the money. I still wouldn't want to be in their situation. [permalink]
Asked by AnalSeducer (76.103.105.x) on January 23 2012, 11:30pm
Reply on January 24 2012, 3:37am:

Goes to show you, we don't need SOPA/etc... The govt has plenty of tools.

Question: Any plans to add elastic audio to Reaper? [permalink]
Asked by GhostDad (76.226.60.x) on January 23 2012, 5:34pm
Reply on January 24 2012, 3:37am:

I.e. warp markers? Maybe someday.

Question: When you find a new band that you like. Does it help motivate/inspire you to keep working on reaper & do new things with it etc? [permalink]
Asked by AnalSeducer (76.103.105.x) on January 23 2012, 7:25am
Reply on January 24 2012, 3:38am:

Sometimes, but indirectly.

Question: Have you read "Coders At Work"? www.codersatwork.com/ I found it quite interesting. [permalink]
Asked by schmoe (50.98.72.x) on January 23 2012, 4:14am
Reply on January 24 2012, 3:38am:

Ah no, but interesting.

Question: I've read that you dropped out of college. What did you dislike about school? [permalink]
Asked by travis (70.178.38.x) on January 23 2012, 1:09am
Reply on January 24 2012, 3:39am:

My experiences were not fantastic. The biggest problem was that I injured myself the summer before school, the consequence of which was missing the chance to test out of all of the intro CS classes. Extreme boredom followed.

Question: what is your opinion on how to stop digital music piracy [permalink]
Asked by casabach (108.28.247.x) on January 21 2012, 1:30pm
Reply on January 24 2012, 3:39am:

Step one would be to acknowledge that not all acts of piracy are lost sales -- once you do that, the problem is more manageable.

Question: Dam Jan 20 last day for Portugal to play in NY. Now they are going Europe. Have u seen the current/past tour dates? Must be hard [permalink]
Asked by AnalSeducer (76.103.105.x) on January 21 2012, 4:41am
Reply on January 24 2012, 3:40am:

Sadly I missed it :(

Question: How quick will this make it to REAPER? science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/20/037236/faster-than-fast-four... [permalink]
Asked by Will (24.234.206.x) on January 20 2012, 5:01pm
Reply on January 20 2012, 6:26pm:

Hard to say, it essentially appears to be a lossy FFT, where it picks the frequencies that matter... So not sure if that'll be terribly applicable for things like convolution, though maybe.

Question: Hmmm... I can use the urlbar to search in FF too. :P Kinda don't like Google's policy of tracking your surfing habits though. [permalink]
Asked by EvilDragon (88.207.57.x) on January 20 2012, 8:05am
Reply on January 20 2012, 6:27pm:

I figure they know everything about me anyway...

Question: isaaccaret.fortunecity.com [permalink]
Asked by ruchira (175.157.148.x) on January 20 2012, 6:23am

Question: Heheh, like you couldn't disable automatic updates in Firefox :P [permalink]
Asked by EvilDragon (88.207.47.x) on January 19 2012, 2:17pm
Reply on January 20 2012, 2:01am:

True. I like using the url bar to search, too, in Chrome. And I also like not having to install/constantly update Flash.

Question: This is the longest time you've stayed focused on one big project. Do you see an endpoint? Do you miss the transition to new? [permalink]
Asked by Will (24.234.206.x) on January 18 2012, 6:39pm
Reply on January 20 2012, 2:01am:

Well, REAPER started as a music making tool for me, so it'll continue that way. Maybe someday I'll make some good music and that'll take more of my time...

Question: might we ever see reaplugs on osx? reajs especially [permalink]
Asked by olilarkin (144.32.204.x) on January 18 2012, 5:07pm
Reply on January 20 2012, 2:00am:

Maybe someday, I agree reajs in particular is quite interesting. It would have to be for Cocoa hosts only, I suppose... or I guess there's an api to host Cocoa in Carbon stuff for 10.5+..

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