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Question: I got a program Idea, but suck at coding. I drew a prototype. What would u do if you had sucked@ coding for Winamp?
Asked by Erik (98.211.237.x) on March 13 2013, 5:10pm
Reply on March 13 2013, 10:59pm:
    Who says I didn't?
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Question: Any idea why nullsoft.com is down?
Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on March 13 2013, 3:58pm
Reply on March 13 2013, 10:59pm:
    Because AOL probably doesn't give a crap?
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Question: did you ever watch the 1992+ version of "the tomorrow people" whilst playing simcity 2000?
Asked by rtqp (146.115.74.x) on March 13 2013, 7:54am
Reply on March 13 2013, 10:59pm:
    Nope, but I have very fond memories of Simcity classic.
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Question: Would a fft-based vocoder sound cleaner? VST "aaah" choir patch singing lyrics through a vocoder: bit.ly/10D67JJ
Asked by Bernard (188.154.73.x) on March 13 2013, 12:05am
Reply on March 13 2013, 10:59pm:
    Neat.
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Question: THX! No pb, this will remain between us Haha! Just for the rules.. askjs.com, askct.com some day?
Asked by frenchos (46.218.205.x) on March 11 2013, 4:50pm
Reply on March 13 2013, 11:00pm:
    Could ask them, but I doubt it. We could have them have guest spots here, I suppose...
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Question: [Easy on Win but google didn't help for OSX] How can a main thread wait for smthg -but- keeps its UI updating ? I'm using SWELL.
Asked by frenchos (46.218.205.x) on March 11 2013, 2:54pm
Reply on March 11 2013, 4:45pm (edited at March 11 2013, 4:46pm):
    Ideally you should make it event driven and check on a timer, but if you insist on doing it in a loop, you can do '[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:ms*0.001]]' in your loop. We are guilty of doing this in the splash screen, I think, ugh (for fades).
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Question: Is it possible to use Reafir as an fft-based vocoder? Just heard an awesome "aah" choir patch singing lyrics through a vocoder.
Asked by Bernard (188.154.73.x) on March 11 2013, 2:14pm
Reply on March 11 2013, 4:42pm:
    Hmm you can do some interesting things using it in gate mode (or possibly convolve l/r), but it wouldn't quite be a vocoder.
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Question: Justin, are you still looking for some nasty linux guy for reaper port?
Asked by S�rgio (95.136.93.x) on March 11 2013, 2:17am
Reply on March 11 2013, 4:42pm:
    Yeah someone with deep GTK+ and Win32 familiarity could do some magic.
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Question: re:sad bikes - Wouldn't that point be when the bolt cutter slices through the lock? (lol)
Asked by schmoe (50.98.72.x) on March 11 2013, 1:32am
Reply on March 11 2013, 4:41pm:
    Heh, then you're just a thief taking scraps.
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Question: So Live9 can convert polyphonic audio to MIDI and drumloops/beatboxing into GM drum MIDI. Cool eh? Any ideas how they did it?
Asked by Ryan (69.172.158.x) on March 10 2013, 10:49pm
Reply on March 11 2013, 4:41pm:
    Dunno.
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Question: Ever contemplated ways you could re-purpose sad bikes?
Asked by schmoe (50.98.72.x) on March 9 2013, 3:16am
Reply on March 10 2013, 5:20pm:
    I wonder at what point you could go collect the parts and build new bikes out of them.. At what point does one cease to have ownership of bike fragments?
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Question: When are you going to insert pattern based workflow?
Asked by Vlad (89.18.20.x) on March 7 2013, 6:57pm
Reply on March 8 2013, 2:07am:
    See above.
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Question: If you wear socks for long enough, will your skin grow over them?
Asked by Andy (184.146.75.x) on March 5 2013, 8:57pm
Reply on March 8 2013, 2:06am:
    Eww. I hope not.
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Question: Any tips for starting a business (not software, need a change of pace). IE keeping the work/life balance and not going broke?
Asked by tacotime (170.146.225.x) on March 5 2013, 8:53pm
Reply on March 8 2013, 2:06am:
    Well, I'd say make software since you can write it once and sell it infinitely. Sorry -- I dunno, really. Find things that you really enjoy doing and then figure out how to do stuff that you'd enjoy relating to that?
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Question: A positive and a negative word about Cubase 7?
Asked by Centralmusic (86.59.98.x) on March 5 2013, 2:34pm
Reply on March 8 2013, 2:05am:
    I haven't used it.
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Question: What am I listening to?
Asked by Maeleen (67.116.241.x) on March 4 2013, 4:33am
Reply on March 8 2013, 2:05am:
    The sound of crickets?
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Question: Do you actively study to learn new things, or just pick up stuff as you go?
Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on March 3 2013, 7:48am
Reply on March 8 2013, 2:05am:
    Both.
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Question: Agree or disagree on "pure programmers"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pn-f6Z-qj0&NR=1
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on March 2 2013, 12:21am
Reply on March 2 2013, 2:19pm:
    I wouldn't discourage anybody from programming, and you can write completely awful code in any language.
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Question: Have you ever thought to keep all global vars in one structure instead of g_barman?
Asked by Jeremy, the kid (178.147.28.x) on March 1 2013, 10:13pm
Reply on March 1 2013, 10:21pm (edited at March 1 2013, 10:29pm):
    Reasons against a global struct storing all global vars:
    1. You usually only initialize some of them to values other than 0 -- if using a single struct, the 0 variables will be encoded as 0s in the binary, whereas with individual variables the linker can put all 0-initialized values in the BSS.
    2. The file that defines that struct will probably be a pain to merge.

    I don't really see the upside.

    As a side note, I absolutely insist on all structs/classes that have non-trivial methods to have their member data begin with m_. Having to work with code that does not do this is completely maddening. Using g_ and s_ prefixes for global / static data is also a must*, and generally never causes any problem for me (even if sometimes you end up at the top level with 'static int g_foo' or 'int s_foo' which is misleading).

    * Note: static data without the s_ prefix is OK to me if the scope of that data is very small
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Question: Do you have to rewrite a lot of stuff for these midi/strech markers updates? How exhausting it is, code wise?
Asked by Martin (93.136.33.x) on March 1 2013, 3:12pm
Reply on March 1 2013, 10:19pm:
    The midi editor stuff probably has a lot more rewriting than the stretch markers.. stretch markers don't add that much code, just gotta get it tweaked to work right.
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