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Question: Re: money from money. Are you referring to socialite types of people & brokers who collect interest doing jack shit?
Asked by AnalSeducer (75.125.220.x) on November 7 2011, 6:34pm
Reply on November 8 2011, 2:33am:

I meant more the arbitrage/high volume trading stuff... At least if you have money and you invest it, say, in municipal bonds, you're providing value to those municipalities that need the working capital to get shit done. If you have a computer that buys and sells stocks thousands of times a day to make money, what's the value (for society) in that? Comment...

Question: have you wrote software/script for stock market? are you interested?
Asked by Да&# (178.208.83.x) on November 7 2011, 4:53pm
Reply on November 7 2011, 4:59pm:

I think that making money from money without contributing anything to society is a bit soulless and awful. Comment...

Question: Classic skinner yo! Reading up on REAPER, sounds really cool. Just saying hi, and that some of us still skin the cool way.
Asked by Mike-db (184.66.82.x) on November 6 2011, 9:49pm
Reply on November 7 2011, 4:59pm:

Hi! Comment...

Question: Hey Buddy how are you? I noticed you did the interview for that doc. How'd it go? Were you pleased or sadly a waste of time? :)
Asked by AnalSedcuer (75.125.220.x) on November 6 2011, 6:41pm
Reply on November 7 2011, 4:59pm:

It was fine, looking forward to the movie. Comment...

Question: Why no new pics on 1014?
Asked by PinkAsso (208.64.185.x) on November 5 2011, 3:36pm
Reply on November 5 2011, 8:45pm (edited at November 5 2011, 8:46pm):

so lazy... and shy. Comment...

Question: If you were to start as a programmer TODAY, which languages / platforms would pique your interest?
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on November 5 2011, 1:15am
Reply on November 5 2011, 8:48pm:

I think web based stuff (html/css/php/javascript/ajax) gets you the most bang for the buck, but I really prefer end user software as you can scale it cheaply. Comment...

Question: Is it possible to link mingw LIBs/DLLs with vc2005?
Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on November 4 2011, 2:40pm
Reply on November 5 2011, 8:49pm:

LIBs would probably not trivially link, no. DLL loading I'm sure you can do, though the C++ calling conventions probably differ, so if you use classes/interfaces across modules/compilers it would be a world of pain. Comment...

Question: What hardware do you use to backup source code? In addition, what's the new build environment? (Ref: changelog v4.11pre3)
Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on November 4 2011, 8:52am
Reply on November 5 2011, 8:50pm:

We use git, and the hardware doesn't really matter (it's all online storage, really, just in many locations). Comment...

Question: how old are you?
Asked by gorka (212.142.175.x) on November 2 2011, 11:19am
Reply on November 5 2011, 8:50pm:

33 Comment...

Question: REAPER media items lane painting (WM_PAINT) is really smooth... do you use double buffer? Hardware accelerated (DirectX)?
Asked by Rodrigo (200.146.60.x) on October 31 2011, 11:22pm
Reply on November 1 2011, 9:25pm:

It just renders to a DIB using LICE, and then BitBlt()s it to screen. Nothing fancy. Comment...

Question: Is signal theory that complicated once you have a firm understanding of it?
Asked by John (24.234.128.x) on October 31 2011, 5:37pm
Reply on November 1 2011, 9:26pm:

Depends on what "signal theory" means, I suppose... I never quite get my head around the multidimensional math of recursive filters, but other things end up pretty simple to me. Comment...

Question: How did you determine what to optimize to make Nitrane so fast? Did you just "borrow" others optimizations or were they yours?
Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on October 31 2011, 4:38am
Reply on October 31 2011, 3:20pm:

I had spent a lot of time optimizing other decoders.. and Intel was nice enough to give us VTune early on, and we also got MMX and 3DNow! supporting CPUs, which were optimized for.. other than that, it was a lot of trial and error, and yes, learning from how other people optimized. Comment...

Question: Check out Anvil Studio: www.anvilstudio.com/ Any ideas of score editor in R4?
Asked by Bharath (117.192.150.x) on October 30 2011, 8:10pm
Reply on October 31 2011, 3:19pm:

Maybe someday but not terribly soon. Comment...

Question: vpn: I totally agree. Are you a fan of paying in cash and prepaid credit cards? To stay out of Databases. Stay cozy my friend.
Asked by AnalSeducer (75.125.220.x) on October 29 2011, 10:05pm
Reply on October 31 2011, 3:19pm:

I don't go that far, I'm not really that interesting to the big businesses, I don't think. I'd rather get frequent flier miles, too (even though it ends up being at the expense of the merchants, oh well). Comment...

Question: Do you and Schwa ever look at other DAWs to get ideas? Are you afraid of the competition?
Asked by Mommy (184.32.227.x) on October 29 2011, 9:30pm
Reply on October 31 2011, 3:18pm:

Not often, and not really; we don't compete in the traditional sense.. we just make something nice that we'd like to use. Comment...

Question: If you were seeking some form of anonymous would you simply recommend a VPN for browsing etc?
Asked by AnalSeducer (75.125.220.x) on October 29 2011, 5:36pm
Reply on October 29 2011, 5:42pm:

It depends on who you are hiding from. The website owners will always be able to track you, unfortunately, and if you're worried about your ISP or other man in the middle, then yeah, any VPN should work, I'd think. Comment...

Question: Is it just me, or this a Nullsoft shirt? www.flickr.com/photos/joeholmes/6266790295/in/set-72157627821754...
Asked by blowery (72.228.12.x) on October 28 2011, 11:37pm
Reply on October 29 2011, 4:18pm:

I'm guessing not, I think the NS llama had one back leg, if I remember right.. Comment...

Question: Is Cocoa anything like win32, or is it an entirely different animal?
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on October 28 2011, 9:32pm
Reply on October 29 2011, 4:20pm:

It is similar in many respects, but different in others. You have NSWindow and NSView which are roughly equivalent to HWND, where NSWindow is top level HWND and NSView are child windows, and so on... but the way they are accessed is quite different (HWNDs are handles with API functions that use them, vs objective C objects, etc)... but there are plenty of common underlying ideas, sure. Comment...

Question: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ceHzA5hSE (just to let you know) Any nostalgia or each just past and better things are to come?
Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on October 28 2011, 1:27am
Reply on October 29 2011, 4:20pm:

Haha nostalgia is cool. I like old PC demos for that. Comment...

Question: sure you aint tolec?
Asked by jofre (189.29.251.x) on October 27 2011, 9:22pm
Reply on October 29 2011, 4:20pm:

yeah. Comment...

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