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Ask Justin Frankel No reasonable question unanswered since 2009! Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, etc. Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead. Name: Ask: Human (enter yes): [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

Question: You said to contact your email about a business idea? How do I get it? Asked by Chad (24.166.157.x) on May 17 2011, 7:21pm Reply on May 20 2011, 10:02am: my first name at the company I work for dot com. Of course you'd probably be better off just posting it here : "is this a good idea? xxx" Comment... Question: Did you evaluate mercurial at all? Asked by James (24.234.128.x) on May 17 2011, 5:30pm Reply on May 20 2011, 10:03am: No. Comment... Question: Have you tried Unzbin? For $11/mth unlimited everything from Astraweb, Unzbin makes every day like Christmas again, safer. :-) Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on May 17 2011, 2:48pm Reply on May 20 2011, 10:03am: Nice, but I dont download much these days. Comment... Question: You once said only a small subset of win32 is used regularly, what subset of git do you use regularly? Asked by Bill (68.224.131.x) on May 16 2011, 2:13pm Reply on May 16 2011, 10:19pm (edited at May 16 2011, 11:23pm): let's see, git fetch, git pull, git push, git checkout (sometimes with -b), git rebase, git rebase -i, git diff (a lot), git status, git add -p, git log, git merge, git reset --hard... Comment... Question: What do you think of the concept bitcoins? Asked by PinkAsso (208.64.185.x) on May 16 2011, 2:08pm Reply on May 16 2011, 10:19pm (edited at May 16 2011, 10:28pm): At first I thought this was silly, but now I'm slightly intrigued; reading more.. Comment... Question: Is Vectorworks 2008 is compatible with Mac OS 10.6 Show Leopard? Asked by Eddie (78.149.126.x) on May 15 2011, 10:20pm Reply on May 16 2011, 10:20am: No idea, I don't know what that is, even. Comment... Question: with a SC stream - is it possible for someone find out where the source is streaming from without having access to admin panel? Asked by w4gon (220.233.100.x) on May 15 2011, 4:02am Reply on May 16 2011, 10:20am: Not unless they have an account (or exploit) on the shoutcast server box, or an upstream router, I don't think. Comment... Question: (just curious) is it possible to use lice for printing duties? Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on May 14 2011, 5:31pm Reply on May 14 2011, 9:52pm: Hmm, you could render to a bitmap at an arbitrary resolution and then print that, but other than that, I dunno. Printing is one place I have zero experience. Comment... Question: MP3 decoding patents are due to expire Dec 2012. What do you think the implications may be? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on May 13 2011, 2:13am Reply on May 14 2011, 9:52pm: Party time! The encoding patents are the bigger deal IMO. Comment... Question: I never flew VA Im assuming you enjoy the experience sense you always fly with them? Video? His book Losing My Virginity was fun Asked by AnalSeducer (71.204.134.x) on May 12 2011, 10:01pm Reply on May 14 2011, 9:53pm: Yeah they're quite nice. I got to watch a couple of good movies, too (The King's Speech and 127 hours). Comment... Question: What's wrong with wdl repository? I get "fatal: htt../info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?" :( Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on May 12 2011, 6:57pm Reply on May 12 2011, 7:59pm: Ooops sorry. Fixed. Comment... Question: WTF mann your in London? haha Man I'm so jealous. :) Did you fly British Airways Business Class? Or have you ever? Asked by AnalSeducer (71.204.134.x) on May 12 2011, 6:29pm Reply on May 12 2011, 7:59pm: I haven't, no... always fly VA. Comment... Question: Can you explain floating point number storage? How does C/C++ represent a float in memory (binary format)? Asked by James (24.234.128.x) on May 12 2011, 4:57pm Reply on May 12 2011, 5:08pm: To oversimplify: Think of scientific notation, i.e. x.xxxxx * 10^y, where you have a relatively normal sized number, and a scale. Of course, the reality is that rather it being X*10^Y, it is actually +-1.X * 2^Y, with a bit deciding whether its + or -, and some bits to define Y, and the majority of the bits defining X. Then there are some special cases for 0 and infinity and so on... Comment... Question: re: AnalSoft - Noted! - humacentipad haha Funny stuff! The Japanese Guy "OhhHOO I should have never updated the ITTUUNNEESSS" ha Asked by AnalSeducer (71.204.134.x) on May 12 2011, 1:19am Reply on May 12 2011, 5:08pm: So true and so wrong. Comment... Question: Favorite NYC restaurant thus far? Asked by roberttheiii (71.234.18.x) on May 12 2011, 1:08am Reply on May 12 2011, 5:09pm (edited at May 12 2011, 7:58pm): Hard to pick a favorite, really. There's a handful of places that I think are really wonderful. I'm in London at the moment, though, and I want to go back to Morito here soon. mmmm OK a few top picks: Momofuku noodle bar, Ippudo, Hung Ry, Taim, Torrisi, Peel's. Comment... Question: Do you feel the next bubble will be in Mobile Phones? If so do u think it will be web based or software? We can startup AnalSoft Asked by AnalSeducer (71.204.134.x) on May 11 2011, 11:55pm Reply on May 12 2011, 12:08am: That'd be a better TP company, imo. Comment... Question: How much longer do you think this social networking bullshit will go on for? It doesn't move me. I feel lost out there now. Asked by AnalSeducer (71.204.134.x) on May 11 2011, 10:20pm Reply on May 12 2011, 12:10am: Hah, I dunno. I feel strange calling myself a luddite relating to these matters, but hey, everybody has their limit of where they are comfortable. Next up, time to get a humacentipad... Comment... Question: Sophisticated broadcasters will use shoutcast as always. This is to let their friends listen without any technical know-how. Asked by James (24.234.128.x) on May 11 2011, 6:39pm Reply on May 12 2011, 12:10am: Right right, but where would the music come from? "Let me pick some songs from a library that I can make a playlist of" (on demand) vs "here's what i want to be playing right now" (streaming).. there's a difference, I think. Comment... Question: Seems personal shoutcasting could take off if someone made an embeddable facebook player, hmm? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on May 11 2011, 3:12am Reply on May 11 2011, 3:30pm: Hmm maybe... I dunno, where would the music come from, etc? I guess if you use the amazon cloud storage thing... Comment... Question: are you referring to your own iphone app, or one you found? Asked by andrew (173.165.1.x) on May 10 2011, 12:01pm Reply on May 10 2011, 12:25pm: One I made because I couldn't find one that did what I wanted.. it's not nearly ready for distribution or anything, but working for my uses. Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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