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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: When you use git to push to the reaper site, what happens to modifications server-side when you do checkout -f? Asked by James Swift (92.8.231.x) on August 3 2012, 6:58pm Reply on August 3 2012, 8:07pm: Well, ideally there wouldn't be any modifications, but if there were, you'd either commit and merge, or just merge (provided those files were not modified upstream -- i.e. if they are log files etc). Comment... Question: Is there a simple way to split the threading stuff from the rest of swell? To use it in a plugin i need to include lots of .mms Asked by olilarkin (144.32.204.x) on August 3 2012, 12:25pm Reply on August 3 2012, 8:08pm: Hmm you could, but #ifdefs might be easier actually, since there's a lot of related junk from emulating HANDLEs etc. Comment... Question: name a software so good you wish you had coded Asked by Desert Rain (122.176.230.x) on August 2 2012, 4:28pm Reply on August 5 2012, 3:01pm: OK how about utorrent? Comment... Question: If you were to write a computer/programming book of say, 400-500 pages, which topic would you choose and why? Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on August 1 2012, 9:35pm Reply on August 3 2012, 8:10pm: I'd ditch the programming book and make it a story about a guy who lives in a world where people eat in private and urinate/defecate in public, socially. Comment... Question: And btw, turkish coffe beats drip coffe anytime! Did you try it? :D Asked by Martin (93.139.6.x) on August 1 2012, 4:19pm Reply on August 3 2012, 8:08pm: I haven't really, no. Comment... Question: On moka pot: you should wash it with water only - a thin layer of grease will form and you won't get that metal taste anymore Asked by Martin (93.136.162.x) on August 1 2012, 3:50pm Reply on August 3 2012, 8:08pm: Good to know. Comment... Question: I think espresso coffee is really better without any milk and sugar Asked by bogo (98.143.211.x) on August 1 2012, 1:55am Reply on August 1 2012, 2:53am: I agree, the whole point of coffee is that it behaves as an anti-sugar. A good latte is hard to beat though, IMO. Comment... Question: Do you git commit -a, or do you manually stage shit? What's the win in staging? Asked by John (70.173.150.x) on July 31 2012, 4:34am Reply on July 31 2012, 2:51pm: I often do commit -a, but sometimes regret it (oops, I didn't want to commit that, etc). Staging is nice because often you might want to only commit some of your changes, the most meaningful, and then later toss all of your debug code, or put it in a separate commit if it needs to stay. Comment... Question: Have you ever tried this coffee maker Asked by bogo (98.143.211.x) on July 31 2012, 12:26am Reply on July 31 2012, 2:50pm: (image:) Every time I've tried to use one of these, it always tastes like metal. At home I make drip coffee, and when I am at a good cafe I'll get a latte made in a big machine... Comment... 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... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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