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Question: Its not a question. Only thanks and appreciation. I can't believe you made winamp that was my favorite software when I was a kid and because of winamp i was exposed to mp3s and eventually DAWs and now knowing you make a DAW, i don't know what to say!!! I am officially a fan of your brain. I will however always bother you with my questions, I value your opini
Asked by Mankey (188.53.111.x) on May 23 2013, 9:12pm
Reply on May 26 2013, 12:53pm:

Uh, thanks. Comment...

Question: Linus discussed your branch timestamp issue, do you agree/disagree with him (below comments): kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/3/1/240167
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 22 2013, 10:28pm
Reply on May 23 2013, 1:38am:

Yeah, I remember that -- those work, but aren't always ideal. I did make a script that would save/restore timestamps based on the hash of the item, and got it to work well... but I never use it. If anything I just look at things in other branches directly via git show branch:pathtofile etc Comment...

Question: You once said you use git diff "alot". What do you diff the most? Working dir vs. HEAD? vs. staging?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 22 2013, 5:43pm
Reply on May 23 2013, 1:38am (edited at May 23 2013, 1:39am):

All kinds of things, working copy against the head, look at individual commits, diff between older commits, etc. It's important to always look at how things change, to make sure things are not accidentally wrong (nevermind plain wrong programmer error). Comment...

Question: Do you do all GIT stuff from a command shell window you keep running? Or do you use GUI integration?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 20 2013, 10:37pm
Reply on May 21 2013, 3:22pm:

Yeah, from msysgit's shell or a terminal window on OSX. Occasionally I'll use git gui or gitk but normally just the command line. Comment...

Question: I'd also like to help program a plugin that can make AVS' current frame available to other video engines as a service.
Asked by Andrew Hall (75.82.58.x) on May 20 2013, 10:10pm
Reply on May 21 2013, 3:22pm:

Could just take the AVS source and make it do what you like... Comment...

Question: Continuing AVS discussion: Well, there is great potential to expand AVS to allow its artists to create stock media clips on sites like Pond5...ever seen this? www.pond5.com/
Asked by Andrew Hall (75.82.58.x) on May 20 2013, 7:01pm
Reply on May 21 2013, 3:23pm:

Yeah, I suppose, but as it is open source it shoudl be pretty straight forward. Comment...

Question: What do you like most about hosting with Amazon? How about least?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 20 2013, 5:11pm
Reply on May 21 2013, 3:23pm:

It'd be nice to have a serial console to your VM, but other than that I'm pretty happy. Things do occasionally go awry, which is something you're supposed to plan for yourself (rather than relying on EC2 to have perfect uptime), but it doesn't seem to happen too often. Comment...

Question: Thoughts on the Kemper Profiling Amp? Ever had the chance to play with one?
Asked by Mick (203.201.154.x) on May 20 2013, 5:55am
Reply on May 21 2013, 3:23pm:

Haven't. Comment...

Question: WHats your take on the analog vs digital wars? do you use a daw other than reaper?
Asked by Mankey (188.48.31.x) on May 20 2013, 1:46am
Reply on May 21 2013, 3:24pm:

I think recording of audio is recording of audio, the xiph.org videos relating to that are pretty awesome. I don't use any other DAW (other than for occasional but rare testing). Comment...

Question: Do you prefer screen over tmux?
Asked by Justin (76.90.232.x) on May 19 2013, 2:46am
Reply on May 19 2013, 3:27pm:

I'm used to using it, at any rate. Comment...

Question: Every time I do an apt-get upgrade that requires a reboot, I'm nervous. Have you had important remote systems not come back up before?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 18 2013, 9:14pm
Reply on May 19 2013, 2:08am:

If you can, clone the box via snapshots, do the upgrades, and test, then swap it out as the new box. Otherwise, if you're upgrading from ssh, be sure to do it in screen in case you get disconnected. It's rare that an apt-get upgrade fails on boot these days, but anything is possible. Comment...

Question: Would you ever be interested in working on new AVS-related projects? I have been working on learning special effects for almost twenty years now, and even my best efforts can't match what you did back before 2000. In particular I still have no idea how you created presets such as Dynamic Movement, and other code-enabling presets. I use AVS presets as blue
Asked by Andrew Hall (75.82.58.x) on May 16 2013, 9:55pm
Reply on May 19 2013, 2:09am:

I do find vis stuff interesting still, but unsure of what makes sense to work on. AVS is open source, of course... Comment...

Question: Awesomesauce, mr. Justin. Forbes!
Asked by EvilDragon (88.207.79.x) on May 14 2013, 7:01pm
Reply on May 16 2013, 12:36pm:

Hah, yeah. Comment...

Question: I was reading this paper queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2484010 when suddenly "Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult" kicked in from the radio. I thought that this is not a coincidence... I should send this to Justin, he knows best! No Q. ;)
Asked by gio (94.66.14.x) on May 11 2013, 9:21am
Reply on May 16 2013, 12:36pm:

I have a fever.. Comment...

Question: What is your take on adobe's new subscription only licensing model?
Asked by Druid (108.227.207.x) on May 10 2013, 5:02am
Reply on May 10 2013, 12:34pm:

Mainly: overpriced. If it was the full CS for $10/month, they'd probably get WAY more users... Comment...

Question: What do you think are currently the most innovative products for DAW/VST/Hardware?
Asked by Mick (203.201.154.x) on May 9 2013, 10:51pm
Reply on May 10 2013, 12:35pm:

Hmmmmmmm I dunno. Comment...

Question: I'm interested to know why more modern versions of VC++ crash when compiling your code? Why would that be?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 9 2013, 7:14pm
Reply on May 9 2013, 9:58pm:

I think it was a bug, that was probably fixed. I started compiling REAPER in vs2012, which worked fine, except a lot of the code we use relating to WDM-KS/DirectShow/DX plug-ins is a complete pain in the ass to get working. So I sort of gave up on it. Comment...

Question: Are we doomed? :|
Asked by travis (70.178.147.x) on May 9 2013, 3:31am
Reply on May 9 2013, 9:58pm:

No? Comment...

Question: What would you do if the source code to Reaper got leaked? Pretend it didn't happen, or embrace and open source it?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 8 2013, 9:46pm
Reply on May 9 2013, 12:19am:

We would not open source it, no; we would do everything we could to discourage its distribution and of course prevent anyone else from using it. Comment...

Question: Re: the last question - should we assume from your answer that your wife doesn't read this page? :D
Asked by schmoe (216.232.39.x) on May 5 2013, 3:01pm
Reply on May 5 2013, 7:22pm:

or that she is a reasonable person... :) Comment...

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