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Question: What's your position towards weed? :)
Asked by dimovich (92.114.228.x) on April 20 2011, 10:51am
Reply on April 20 2011, 12:54pm:

Not a huge fan, but I think if you use it you should vaporize it rather than smoke it... Comment...

Question: What's your proudest achievement?
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on April 20 2011, 10:25am
Reply on April 20 2011, 12:55pm:

Pride isn't my strongest area. Somehow ending up with a woman who loves me, perhaps? Comment...

Question: Have you ever seen this band live? bit.ly/10Ds4h if so I would be very Jealous
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.204.133.x) on April 19 2011, 3:39pm
Reply on April 20 2011, 12:55pm:

No, but I have a DVD of them live, which is awesome. I'd go see them in a heartbeat as well. Comment...

Question: Does reaper's code differ much between win&mac versions?
Asked by Dave (222.90.231.x) on April 19 2011, 1:59am
Reply on April 19 2011, 8:01am:

Most of it is the same; occasional ifdefs relating to window menus, and other things.. then there's winutilfuncs.cpp and macmisc.mm, respectively, and macprefs.mm, and main.cpp vs Controller.mm, etc. Really just a handful of differences, plus WDL/swell/*.mm. Oh and aunit.cpp (osx) vs dxplugin.cpp (win32), too. and the audio/midi subsystems have their own code on each platform. OK that's getting to be a long list. Comment...

Question: Have you upgrade to xcode 4? Don't...
Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on April 18 2011, 10:11pm
Reply on April 19 2011, 7:59am:

I haven't, but thank you for the advice (because I have contemplated it). Comment...

Question: What breed is this dog? tinyurl.com/3zch9xn
Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on April 18 2011, 8:30pm
Reply on April 19 2011, 7:59am:

Black lab I think. He is a sweetheart. Comment...

Question: I'll be in SF soon for a week - any good 2nd-hand guitar shops over there?
Asked by daniel (74.125.56.x) on April 18 2011, 5:47pm
Reply on April 19 2011, 7:59am:

Hmm nothing is coming to mind. Comment...

Question: What method(s) do you use for writing music? Do you improvise and record audio? Write and edit scores?
Asked by Paradiddle (72.235.248.x) on April 18 2011, 2:14pm
Reply on April 19 2011, 7:58am:

Mostly I just improvise and/or screw around with REAPER.. also sometimes I write freeform poetry and then try to fit it to music. Comment...

Question: Do you get to sleep at night, or are you like me - clouds of code are all over your mind even when you sleep?
Asked by Asswhoop (163.167.206.x) on April 17 2011, 11:33am
Reply on April 18 2011, 10:36am:

Depends on the night -- last night I was out. Comment...

Question: Do you feel like more people respect you because you're tall? Do you see guys under 5'10 as weak since you look down?
Asked by James (68.224.131.x) on April 17 2011, 7:33am
Reply on April 18 2011, 10:36am:

No, and no. Comment...

Question: With a gun in your head someone asks you which DAW you like (other than R) - what would you say?
Asked by superman (122.164.171.x) on April 17 2011, 3:58am
Reply on April 18 2011, 10:34am:

Vegas, I guess? Comment...

Question: When was the last time you HAD to use Linux?
Asked by Anon (82.69.60.x) on April 15 2011, 3:45pm
Reply on April 18 2011, 10:34am:

I use it all the time, mostly for server type stuff. I also use it on my eeepc... Comment...

Question: Which lang. did you code R in? Using what tools?
Asked by superman (122.164.171.x) on April 15 2011, 9:08am
Reply on April 18 2011, 10:33am (edited at April 18 2011, 10:34am):

REAPER is written in C++, and compiled with VC6 (win32), VC2005 (win64), and Xcode on OS X. We use ICC for all of those platforms, too. Also, we use WDL (www.cockos.com/wdl). Comment...

Question: int (*sf)(int key) usage in winamp dsp?
Asked by ruchira (123.231.14.x) on April 11 2011, 12:13am
Reply on April 12 2011, 9:41am:

Hell if I know. It's not in the old dsp.h I have. Comment...

Question: what is int (*sf)(int key) ?
Asked by ruchira (123.231.15.x) on April 9 2011, 7:42pm
Reply on April 10 2011, 11:53am:

It's a pointer. The type of the pointer is a function that takes an int parameter and returns an int. Comment...

Question: I am getting my MBA from USC. We are interviewing entrepreneurs for a class project. Would you be interested in a 1 hour talk?
Asked by mark duffield (68.225.17.x) on April 7 2011, 3:10pm
Reply on April 7 2011, 6:26pm:

I suppose if it was a 5 minute interview via email, I could be convinced... Comment...

Question: Visited the folks recently. Saw this while everyone was sleeping. Talk about Nostalgia bit.ly/aDkEWs remember this sh*t?
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.204.133.x) on April 5 2011, 1:17pm
Reply on April 7 2011, 6:25pm:

Awesome. I hadn't seen that. Comment...

Question: Do you agree with Burt's views on breakthroughs? www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0eayJvqW6Y
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on April 5 2011, 11:24am
Reply on April 7 2011, 6:25pm:

I love him. Comment...

Question: Was the transition to EC2 smooth?
Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on April 3 2011, 1:35am
Reply on April 3 2011, 7:31am:

Yeah. EC2 is pretty awesome. If you reserve instances in advance, it gets very inexpensive too (for a business). Comment...

Question: You said you like a "subset" of C++. What subset is this?
Asked by Rodrigo Dias (189.114.201.x) on April 2 2011, 6:45pm
Reply on April 3 2011, 7:34am:

Essentially C with classes, limited to single inheritance (and mostly just inheriting from an abstract base class), templates, declaring variables when needed (rather than forcing a new {} block), and using default parameters. That's about it, maybe? No operator overloading, except some basic operator= on widely used classes since the default operators are often unsafe for most classes. Comment...

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