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Question: tinyurl.com/amn36wb ::funny and since you love STL you'll like it (hope so). So, is STL that good overall? o_0 Asked by gio (94.66.88.x) on January 30 2013, 6:41pm Reply on January 30 2013, 8:22pm: I'm no fan of STL, but that clearly seems to be a case of bad use of STL rather than STL being inherently bad. Having said that, STL does seem very easy to use poorly. Comment... Question: Who is the most famous person you've met? Asked by Dave (69.15.110.x) on January 30 2013, 5:47pm Reply on January 30 2013, 8:24pm: Hmm Nick Offerman was a couple of rows behind me on a flight this past summer... The best part was, when we were deplaning, I got to call him ""sir." Comment... Question: Ever played with Python or Ruby? Any thoughts? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on January 29 2013, 4:26pm Reply on January 30 2013, 1:37pm: I've done a little bit of Python.. I was mostly turned off by how important whitespace ends up being, but that's mostly just me being crotchety and I am not used to it. Anyway, would need some actual project to do in one of these to really dive in. Comment... Question: Maybe WASTE will make a comeback? yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/28/1645252/how-proxied-torrents-cou... Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on January 28 2013, 8:10pm Reply on January 30 2013, 1:38pm: Meh... it could be done in a much broader, better distributed fashion (like email), and could be interesting. I've been sort of designing a system for that, but am feeling quite lazy. Comment... Question: Any advice on getting through dense technical books? Asked by travis (70.178.147.x) on January 28 2013, 10:52am Reply on January 30 2013, 1:38pm: Can't say that I've gotten through many myself. Comment... Question: How many lines of codes in NINJAM? Did you use various programming languages? Asked by French Engineeri (90.38.38.x) on January 27 2013, 9:57pm Reply on January 30 2013, 1:39pm: Not that many. It is GPL, you can read it, the core stuff is probably 8000 lines or so. All C++. Comment... Question: Can you elaborate on why Java is proprietary? (I'm not a Java advocate, just noticed you mentioned it negatively more than once) Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on January 27 2013, 5:05pm Reply on January 27 2013, 7:11pm: I'm no expert on it, but there's no shortage of crap litigation around it (Oracle v Google re: Android, etc), also things like this blog post. Comment... Question: why do you dislike java so much? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on January 27 2013, 2:48am Reply on January 27 2013, 2:44pm (edited at January 27 2013, 2:45pm): I don't have anything against the language, for the most part. The Java runtimes you end up having to install are just awful though, insecure messes. It is also a strangely proprietary platform. Also, for applications, I really think garbage collection is a bad idea. If you have to periodically scan all memory, you're going to have a bad time. I remember this article. Comment... Question: tinyurl.com/bjz9j7o - what do you think of this? Yay/nay? Asked by EvilDragon (88.207.51.x) on January 25 2013, 9:57am Reply on January 26 2013, 3:24am: Could be neat! Maybe. Comment... Question: What do you think will be the greatest step in the evolution of the audio world in the next months/years? Asked by Daniel (187.67.69.x) on January 23 2013, 7:38pm Reply on January 26 2013, 3:25am: Maybe when someone improves the Windows/OSX kernels to avoid DPC issues? Fully re-entrant kernels? Dunno... Comment... Question: Why did Peter Pawloski start writing so many audio plugins for WinAMP? Wasn't that your specialty? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on January 23 2013, 6:12am Reply on January 23 2013, 1:32pm: At a certain point I checked out of Winamp dev and did not a whole lot + took pictures + fucked off + maybe gnutella/waste and lasers too. Comment... Question: why you don't want to be in this list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_audio_software Asked by Arkadi (188.120.236.x) on January 23 2013, 3:25am Reply on January 23 2013, 1:32pm: I wouldn't mind having REAPER .999 in there, but 1.0+ aren't free... Comment... Question: Christophe will get sad for !asking about him. Give him a HI5. Would u tell us a funny story between the fantastic cockos team? Asked by gio (94.66.1.x) on January 23 2013, 2:45am Reply on January 23 2013, 1:31pm: Ummm.. I may come back to edit this if something funny happens... One time we tried to climb some rocks in Schwa's backyard, but it was too hot so instead we had some gin and tonics. Comment... Question: I just want to thank the previous questioner for caring! Wait, that's not a question. Or is it? Asked by Schwa (24.161.32.x) on January 23 2013, 2:35am Reply on January 23 2013, 1:30pm: I don't know, is that all? Comment... Question: We have not seen Schwa on the Reaper forum, hope all is good. Asked by James (68.10.223.x) on January 22 2013, 7:52pm Reply on January 23 2013, 12:45am: Yep all's well! Comment... Question: Do you think you'd do well in a google technical interview? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on January 21 2013, 7:12am Reply on January 21 2013, 7:19pm: I don't know -- I have a friend whose skills I respect greatly, and apparently he didn't feel as though he did well in the interview. He works at Google now, though, so I really have no idea. I would think that I would feel like I did poorly, I guess? Comment... Question: Have you ever written a full tutorial on AVS for Winamp? Asked by Justin Gargano (98.250.83.x) on January 20 2013, 12:54am Reply on January 20 2013, 2:18pm: I haven't, someone probably has though.. but a lot of it ends up being self explanatory, aside from the EEL programming anyway. Comment... Question: How/why did you cut your programming teeth on BSD? Did your brother push you in that direction? Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on January 19 2013, 7:55pm Reply on January 20 2013, 2:17pm: Hmm I did more stuff on SunOS in college and Linux (which my brother introduced me to in the 0.99.x days) than BSD, though we did end up running FreeBSD for web servers back in the day, so I did get to do some stuff for that (SHOUTcast, etc).. Comment... Question: Will there ever be any more features added to ReaSynth? I like the sound, but there isent much you can do with it. Asked by will (96.238.63.x) on January 19 2013, 10:06am Reply on January 19 2013, 3:21pm: Maybe, but it's supposed to be a pretty basic synth. You can always do fun things to its output. Comment... Question: Any thoughts on the whole Lance Armstrong fiasco? Asked by Jordan (70.67.178.x) on January 19 2013, 2:14am Reply on January 19 2013, 3:20pm: I read an interesting article about it on a psychology website, which seemed to be a pretty good assessment of it. Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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