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Question: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hapCuhAs1nA Carmack says he's basically only used highschool math. You too? Asked by John (70.173.150.x) on July 28 2012, 8:35pm Reply on July 29 2012, 2:34am: Watching... I guess it depends on what you learned in high school, but yeah that's about right, through Calculus. Though occasionally there are times where it gets messy, but they are relatively uncommon. Comment... Question: Did you use another SCM before GIT? Back in the Winamp days, how did you manage source control? Did it work? Asked by John (70.173.150.x) on July 28 2012, 5:26pm Reply on July 28 2012, 5:45pm (edited at July 28 2012, 5:46pm): When I started Winamp, I didn't use SCM, which in retrospect is really terrifying... but when you're the only guy working on it, it is somewhat doable. At a certain point we used MS SourceSafe, then SourceOffSite (which allowed it to be used over the internet within reason). SourceSafe at least provided a history, but if you wanted to roll back to the exact state at a particular point in time, err, well that was difficult (and rarely done). After leaving AOL, I used SourceSafe for a bit longer, then moved to SVN, which I used for quite a long time until git. SVN was way way better than SourceSafe (while branches were a pain in the ass, you could at least get a snapshot of a given revision trivially) and git was way way better than SVN (we can actually use branches without complete hell). Using version control initially had a great effect on my workflow -- being able to diff after working was great. Git takes it to the next level in many ways, letting me do even more as part of the process. Comment... Question: How much was it before moving everything to Amazon? (PS our very beefy Softlayer ded. server is $133/mth 100mbps unlimited). Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on July 26 2012, 8:49pm Reply on July 26 2012, 10:18pm: $300 wouldn't have covered the power bill before, ugh. I feel violated by PG&E. I know AWS is a lot more expensive than some alternatives, but being able to make snapshots and replicate and do all that stuff makes it cheap enough to be completely worth it. Comment... Question: Theming: oops sorry (not enough characters allowed..), I meant "pb the the grayed controls that look bad" Asked by frenchos (46.218.205.x) on July 26 2012, 2:13pm Reply on July 26 2012, 3:25pm: I think we just change our window background colors to look better :/ Comment... Question: Why did you leave San Francisco? Isn't it the place to be for high tech? Over rated in that regard? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on July 26 2012, 4:35am Reply on July 26 2012, 2:07pm: If we were really active and wanted to get VC and network with other companies it probably would be helpful to be there... NY has summer and winter though, which is awesome. Comment... Question: What is the monthly cost IT cost of cockos? Asked by PinkAsso (208.64.185.x) on July 26 2012, 3:55am Reply on July 26 2012, 2:06pm (edited at July 26 2012, 8:22pm): For everything we host on Amazon (which is nearly everything), around $300. It would be a bit more if we didn't use reserved instances, too.. Comment... Question: Win32 "theming": found out RmXPStyle trick but now pb = tinyurl.com/cseno2q. Some magic to share? (or BS_OWNERDRAW per Ctrl?) Asked by frenchos (46.218.205.x) on July 25 2012, 8:41am Reply on July 26 2012, 2:06pm: Hmm, yeah not sure. You can try disabling the WS_BORDER style, maybe? Comment... Question: how to practice for programming? Asked by GreenHand (210.21.230.x) on July 24 2012, 12:42pm Reply on July 26 2012, 2:05pm: By making stuff for fun that you want to use... Comment... Question: Do you agree with David? Sortof long, but highly interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDGHxO6N3Ms Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on July 23 2012, 11:24pm Reply on July 24 2012, 1:42am: Watching. I don't remember the last time I was this bored watching YouTube. Comment... Question: What do you use now in place of Vegas? Asked by travis (70.178.38.x) on July 21 2012, 6:23am Reply on July 22 2012, 3:24am: REAPER, mostly, but I don't do much editing other than cuts etc. Comment... Question: what's the git workflow between you and the rest of the team? many Qs for a day. boring day here: we call the situation sparila. Asked by gio (94.66.61.x) on July 21 2012, 5:13am Reply on July 22 2012, 3:25am: We all use a common server, and pull/push to it. We make branches for bugfix releases sometimes, and also for new features when the feature is significant enough (otherwise we just do the feature locally then merge or rebase to the main server's master). We also have a couple of machines which monitor a special git branch and make builds from it. Comment... Question: could you add a link somewhere in order to be able to return back to askjf.com homepage after a search? Asked by gio (94.66.61.x) on July 21 2012, 2:51am Reply on July 22 2012, 3:25am: That might be nice. Comment... Question: guidelines for writing a clean, easy to use API? Asked by gio (94.66.61.x) on July 21 2012, 1:48am Reply on July 22 2012, 3:26am: Make something you'd want to use. I'm convinced a lot of ugly COM APIs were never designed to actually be used. Comment... Question: Isn't it an anachronism to say "ship software"? "We're shipping 2.0 next month". It bothers me. Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on July 20 2012, 11:56pm Reply on July 22 2012, 3:26am: It wasn't always, I guess. I guess "ship" for something going via truck, train or airplane is sort of silly too, since it doesn't go on a ship... Comment... Question: Did you or any of your team work on the Acid Pro Project? Asked by Broly (70.122.194.x) on July 20 2012, 1:26pm Reply on July 20 2012, 10:28pm: No, but once upon a time I used Vegas and Acid 4... Comment... Question: Have you done any sculptures based off your fractal animations? Asked by C-Matt (96.52.235.x) on July 19 2012, 2:54pm Reply on July 20 2012, 10:29pm: I have no fractal animations... Comment... Question: which camera did you use for the -w with video-? Asked by gio (94.66.61.x) on July 19 2012, 9:32am Reply on July 19 2012, 2:22pm: Canon T3i (600D), with a 28mm f/1.8 lens. Comment... Question: Have you tried writing something for iOS? Do you see any interesting possibilities on touch interaction? Asked by Bharath Kumar (117.213.188.x) on July 19 2012, 9:16am Reply on July 19 2012, 2:22pm: I have done a few small things, but didn't really get into the touch elements of it. The one I actually use is something that lets me send text + scaled/cropped/images to a HTTP post, for updating my blog (with photos) on the run... I should release that one at some point, but it's kinda ugly (and not user friendly much). Comment... Question: How programmers ended up being the persons you don't want to invite to a party? Asked by gio (94.66.61.x) on July 19 2012, 8:11am Reply on July 19 2012, 2:21pm: I get called a "technicalitist" by my loved ones, maybe that's why? Comment... Question: How do graphics apps like AVS or games calculate FPS? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on July 19 2012, 6:58am Reply on July 19 2012, 2:21pm: Calculate actual FPS or render such that the output looks right at the eventual actual framerate? For the former, usually you'd keep a rolling window of how long each frame took, and show the average (or better yet average and min/max/etc) for the last second or two or five or whatever. Comment... 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