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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: what's top of your list of things you'd love to do but haven't quite found the time yet? Asked by themike (90.195.247.x) on November 27 2011, 5:55pm Reply on November 30 2011, 4:01am: Hmm getting a pilots license would be sweet... just can't commit to devoting enough time to it, and it's something I'd want to do well, not just half assed. Comment... Question: How do you decide when something is done and ready to ship? Asked by Mr. Distributed (77.247.181.x) on November 24 2011, 6:20pm Reply on November 27 2011, 3:49pm: That question can be applied to so much in life! You never really feel anything is done, but "good enough" or "better than the last version" are feelings you do get. Comment... Question: www.reaper.fm/download.php doesn't work! :) Asked by Stench (75.119.11.x) on November 24 2011, 3:34am Reply on November 27 2011, 3:50pm: Hmm, was it down or something? It works fine here. Comment... Question: Do you use standard VC6 timers for anything in Reaper? Asked by schmoe (208.181.106.x) on November 22 2011, 10:48pm Reply on November 27 2011, 3:50pm: Do you mean standard Win32 timers, i.e. SetTimer()? If so, then yes, but only really tasks that are the lowest priority. Comment... Question: EuCon support! Please?!! Anything that the community can do to support? Asked by Bharath (117.192.144.x) on November 22 2011, 5:49pm Reply on November 27 2011, 3:50pm: Get Avid to publish specs for it? Comment... Question: Not that we are old. But do you ever look back to the 90s & think damm that was a good/fun time? winamp, id soft, napster etc Asked by AnalSeducer (206.217.221.x) on November 20 2011, 7:55am Reply on November 27 2011, 3:50pm: It was, though I've had more fun since then. Comment... Question: Any thoughts on the C++11? Asked by Rodrigo (187.112.249.x) on November 19 2011, 1:40pm Reply on November 27 2011, 3:52pm: Doesn't really interest me much; once it gets wide compiler support that may change, but much of the additions are to things/styles which I make little use of currently. Comment... Question: sedona.net haha awesome! What year did you get on? Looks like you didn't wait for those AOL Floppy disks to show up in the mail Asked by AnalSeducer (75.125.220.x) on November 19 2011, 5:36am Reply on November 19 2011, 6:12am: It was 1994 I think. AOL didn't have a local access number, even. Comment... Question: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnR3ZMiYczw does that make you laugh, or is it cheezy? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on November 19 2011, 5:05am Reply on November 19 2011, 6:12am: Hah. Not really my style. Comment... Question: (speaking of production) you like your servers up to date or if they are rock solid you run them for as long as possible? Asked by gio (62.103.65.x) on November 19 2011, 12:26am Reply on November 19 2011, 6:11am: the stuff that can't go down often doesn't get updated often.. if it's a dev server, it'll be more up to date... There's a nice balance to be had, though.. if you never reboot, you never know what'll happen when you do finally need to reboot. Comment... Question: Who was your first ISP? Netcom? Aol? Asked by PinkAsso (208.64.185.x) on November 18 2011, 8:24pm Reply on November 19 2011, 12:15am: sedona.net, booya. Comment... Question: You ever dream and have a Codemare? I had one recently where my app only worked fine for me & when people used it, it had errors Asked by AnalSeducer (75.125.220.x) on November 18 2011, 7:59pm Reply on November 19 2011, 12:15am: Nah, I have good music dreams where I've just played some really awesome riff, and I'm afraid I'll forget it tho. Which I of course do. Comment... Question: Do you ever want to quit Reaper then and do music only? (I'm assuming your WinAmp payday was big enough to retire.) Asked by John (69.15.110.x) on November 18 2011, 7:17pm Reply on November 19 2011, 12:14am: No, because then I'd use REAPER and want it to do X Y or Z and thus the cycle would continue. Comment... Question: Why don't consumers naturally work backwards to what's "good" then? Is marketing control that powerful? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on November 18 2011, 7:05pm Reply on November 19 2011, 12:14am: A lot of it comes down to availability -- you can only (easily) buy the new stuff. Look, a lot of new versions can be great, but when you've been using the old version, especially in a production environment, upgrading is not something that can be taken lightly. Even if we could migrate our VC2005 win64 projects to VC2010, and have them easily compile, we would want to have those builds tested for extended periods before we released them. Too much can change. Comment... Question: I sent you an email maybe 2 weeks ago. about an idea i've been working on, i'm just curious if you got it. Asked by DevXen (174.27.237.x) on November 17 2011, 2:37am Reply on November 18 2011, 4:10am: Yeah those sorts of emails are a bit pointless imo. Comment... Question: Word 2000, old HTML, VS6 ... would you say you may be an"old dog" who doesn't want new tricks? Do you still learn new tech? Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on November 17 2011, 12:20am Reply on November 18 2011, 4:11am (edited at November 18 2011, 3:24pm): Edit: when new things are good, I'll switch to them. VC2010 can't compile my code without crashing. Xcode 4 is awful. I've only been using Git for a year, but I can't imagine going back to SVN. So much new is terrible, though. Newer versions of Word? no point, really. Comment... Question: Thoughts & Opinions? americancensorship.org/ Asked by AnalSeducer (75.125.220.x) on November 16 2011, 10:49pm Reply on November 18 2011, 4:11am: I think censorship is bad, but I'm not too worried. Comment... Question: Why do you still use transitional HTML presentation attributes instead of CSS? Never bothered learning it? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on November 16 2011, 6:43pm Reply on November 16 2011, 10:13pm: I do know some CSS, but not enough. Every time I make anything using it there's a ton of fiddling trying to get things to look right and/or work as I expect. :( So I'm lazy and just whip out a table. Comment... Question: Ever feel like Reaper is in maintenance mode and you want to start something totally new? Asked by John (69.15.110.x) on November 16 2011, 6:11pm Reply on November 16 2011, 10:14pm: I often wish I would spend more time writing music in REAPER than programming... It doesn't feel like maintenance mode though, overall, constantly big things needing to be done. I'm reminded of a great quote: "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." (Vonnegut, from Hocus Pocus) Comment... Question: is victor gay? Asked by Fred (85.134.194.x) on November 16 2011, 5:30pm Reply on November 16 2011, 10:15pm: The internet doesn't allow you to know these things, ever... Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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