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Question: cargocollective.com/jeffreyjames/Listen-Listen -what do you think of my music? Asked by jeffreyjames (75.161.176.x) on March 11 2012, 12:10pm Reply on March 17 2012, 5:13pm: I will listen, when I get a chance... Comment... Question: What do you think about some opinions said in this thread (posts 3-5)? forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=98603 Asked by Tinny (88.207.58.x) on March 10 2012, 8:57pm Reply on March 17 2012, 5:14pm (edited at March 17 2012, 5:42pm): It's easy to point at something that you think is easy to fix but have it actually be more complicated than you think. Also, while we do listen to users a lot, we also end up prioritizing the things that are the most important to us. Comment... Question: goo.gl/KoEz6 - for my irc question, I just meant for the users, not the devs. Asked by pixeltarian (75.161.190.x) on March 10 2012, 10:49am Reply on March 17 2012, 5:14pm: Ah yeah, could do that too. IRC often degenerates into chaos, though. Comment... Question: i made zero dollars...was more a proof of concept..didn't you disable ads in AIM messenger? following your footsteps ;) Asked by poop (68.28.155.x) on March 10 2012, 1:36am Reply on March 17 2012, 5:15pm: Just replaced them with fancy visuals -- but that was a different point. Comment... Question: I read CreateThread leaks C-runtime memory, and should be used only when no C-runtime calls. Otherwise, _beginthreadex. Right? Asked by Rodrigo (187.112.89.x) on March 9 2012, 11:27pm Reply on March 17 2012, 5:16pm (edited at March 17 2012, 5:18pm): You mean calls that are generally not threadsafe anyway, and require use of TLS to be thread safe (like strtok())? Probably, but we don't use those runtimes. Also, if you link with the DLL CRT, it appears that it shouldn't leak anyway (since it gets DllMain calls on each new thread creation, etc). Comment... Question: i got banned from google adsense how can i get back...i will be a good boy going forth...you think they give 2nd chances? Asked by poop (68.28.155.x) on March 8 2012, 3:00pm Reply on March 9 2012, 3:47am: I have no idea, but people who exploit ads for profit, meh, I have little sympathy.. Comment... Question: Did you read many programming books, or just learn by playing around / online snippets & tutorials? Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on March 7 2012, 5:41pm Reply on March 7 2012, 6:36pm: Yeah, I read a couple of MS books about win32 (both the Petzold one and another, Advanced Windows or similar, by Richters I think, which had all kinds of info on some of the more useful OS features), some Abrash books, a lot of books in the category of Graphics Gems, some stuff by Knuth, etc. Not sure if I would bother these days, the internet has so much good stuff on it. Comment... Question: Any tips on how to implement a "recently opened files" menu entry without making a real mess? Asked by Rodrigo (161.148.171.x) on March 7 2012, 5:22pm Reply on March 7 2012, 6:37pm: Populating a menu in WM_INITMENUPOPUP usually works pretty well. Comment... Question: is reastream proprietary? or would you consider publishing info about creating clients/servers (time permitting)? Asked by olilarkin (144.32.156.x) on March 6 2012, 2:36pm Reply on March 6 2012, 11:37pm: I started documenting it for you, but it's sort of a mess; I should probably fix some real problems with it and then post the spec, sure... It is simple UDP, you could probably sniff it easily enough for audio (the MIDI side is ugly, though). Comment... Question: Legal BS. In R's license R is written w/ TM which means unregistered trademark. In .exe is mentioned registered.. Which is true? Asked by gio (94.66.69.x) on March 6 2012, 12:18pm Reply on March 6 2012, 11:23pm: It is registered now, but at one point it was not. Comment... Question: I start to love STL. Am I doomed? Asked by gio (94.66.69.x) on March 6 2012, 9:50am Reply on March 6 2012, 11:22pm: I don't think you are necessarily doomed, however one can easily do themselves in if they are not careful. Comment... Question: Which particular functions do you use to deal with threads on Win32? Asked by Rodrigo (187.112.69.x) on March 4 2012, 2:14pm Reply on March 5 2012, 5:48pm: CreateThread(), WaitForSingleObject(), CloseHandle(), Enter/Leave/InitializeCriticalSection(), etc, and sometimes CreateEvent() too.. Comment... Question: have you ever considered running a web-based IRC channel for cockos stuff? take a look at this beauty: github.com/thedjp Asked by pixeltarian (75.161.176.x) on March 4 2012, 7:13am Reply on March 5 2012, 5:48pm: Nah, we're often too accessible as it is :) Comment... Question: Why do smart/hip programmers these days (especially SF) answer every question by beginning with "So, ... " Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on March 3 2012, 3:05am Reply on March 5 2012, 5:49pm: So no shit is the prefix I prefer. Honestly I don't really know what you're talking about, though. Comment... Question: If you HAD to use a managed VM platform, would you go with Java or .NET and why? Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on March 2 2012, 2:13am Reply on March 2 2012, 7:01pm: Argh, hell if I know... I guess .NET, but I have little experience with either. Does PHP count? Comment... Question: How will having X amount of people following you on twitter affect your ego? :) Welcome to the dark side. Asked by AnalSeducer (76.103.105.x) on February 29 2012, 6:57pm Reply on March 1 2012, 5:16am: Either validate how important I thought I was, or crush me, time will tell. Comment... Question: www.neveroccurs.com/lab/three.js/gpu_particles/index.html?partic... Look what browsers can do now! Wee! Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on February 29 2012, 12:42am Reply on February 29 2012, 4:52am: It is getting pretty awesome, I agree. I've been playing with javascript stuff for fun, too. Nothing that fancy, though. Comment... Question: What is your opinion on the huge trend away from software efficiency (.NET, iTunes, Windows 7 using 1GB RAM baseline, etc.)? Asked by Josh (75.128.193.x) on February 27 2012, 3:19am Reply on February 28 2012, 1:40am: It's generally awful, though to be honest Windows 7 I rather like, you do get some bang for your buck. The real problem, as I see it, is that people get lazy. People make stuff and don't think too much about code size or overhead or memory use, they just go "whatever, that's good enough". .NET is particularly awful because it lets the user put that blame onto someone else. You can write a nice little tight piece of .NET code, and turn it into a big pile of bloat, but it has a nice SEP field to it. Comment... Question: I've a fresh app with child dialogs & vwnd controls. i get R6025 error while i do .PaintVirtWnd(&g_vwnd). any idea what's wrong? Asked by gio (94.66.78.x) on February 26 2012, 3:36pm Reply on February 26 2012, 8:23pm: I'd have to see more code, but that might be where you do NULLpointer->method(), where method() is a virtual function... Comment... Question: Have you ever listened to any of Nina Simone songs ? If yes, which is your fav.? Asked by tayfun (78.175.239.x) on February 25 2012, 8:40am Reply on February 26 2012, 8:23pm: Can't say that I have. Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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