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Question: Okay then, how about this one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VN8zH366M8
Asked by Will (70.173.80.x) on January 22 2014, 7:01am
Reply on January 25 2014, 3:15am:
    Hell yeah.
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Question: Anything exciting you at NAMM 2014? Are you attending?
Asked by Mick (27.127.192.x) on January 22 2014, 2:33am
Reply on January 25 2014, 3:15am:
    Nah, I'm not much of one for trade shows or orange county.
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Question: Reaper uses cubic bezier for one of it's envelope shape. How would one calculate control points based on bezier tension? Bonus question: do fast/slow/start/end formulas here: pastebin.com/JSuqLynG resemble something you use? Thanks!
Asked by Martin (93.138.91.x) on January 20 2014, 11:42pm
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Question: Which do you use and why: void foo(int *num) or void foo(int &num)
Asked by Rodrigo (187.112.67.x) on January 18 2014, 6:59pm
Reply on January 18 2014, 10:25pm:
    I would typically use a pointer rather than a reference for more instances, because then looking at the calling code it is clear that the parameter could be modified. Using a reference has the advantage of not being allowed to receive NULL, though. If everything was very const-heavy on the calling side I might be inclined to use a reference, but probably not enough...
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Question: Can you talk a little bit about structure/byte alignment, why it's important, and how to test you're doing it right when programming to get the best performance?
Asked by Will (70.173.80.x) on January 18 2014, 7:41am
Reply on January 18 2014, 10:22pm:
    For the most part the compiler should have reasonable defaults, unless you're using SSE, or doubles with gcc and can't set -malign-double (ugh!). For the latter case I made a macro called WDL_FIXALIGN, which I apply to double/int64 members of structs when the alignment is uncertain. One thing I should mention: if you have classes with virtual functions, remember the implicit vtable pointer (which on 32 bit platforms can mean being only 4 byte aligned rather than 8 byte aligned)!
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Question: Do you enjoy books like these? ISBN-13: 978-0307599803 . I.m having a blast reading it myself.
Asked by Haze (153.2.246.x) on January 16 2014, 7:40am
Reply on January 18 2014, 10:18pm:
    Nah I mostly read fiction at this point.
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Question: Feelin this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xjXpD4pfP8
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on January 16 2014, 3:53am
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Question: Why do you still use Apache instead of nginx?
Asked by Patrick (68.65.169.x) on January 15 2014, 4:38am
Reply on January 15 2014, 7:13pm:
    Because it works?
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Question: How do I do "Install for all users" or "Install for current user" in NSIS? I couldn't find it, I even asked LEGO.com
Asked by Nicholas Foryste (173.31.164.x) on January 14 2014, 3:15pm
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Question: Why do you keep your apache keep-alive at 15s? Seems like that's asking for timeouts if someone decides to DOS you.
Asked by Will (70.173.80.x) on January 14 2014, 9:53am
Reply on January 14 2014, 3:15pm:
    Silly ubuntu defaults...
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Question: What you think about Peercoin?
Asked by Harvey (220.255.2.x) on January 13 2014, 1:28pm
Reply on January 14 2014, 3:15pm:
    Meh...
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Question: It seems like you're into travelling. How much time do you spend in other countries/cities during the year? What do you like the most about visiting new places?
Asked by asafonov (87.250.44.x) on January 13 2014, 12:56pm
Reply on January 14 2014, 3:16pm:
    Right now I'm really liking being at home, actually.
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Question: Hello Justin, I have huge admiration for your Reaper work. Speaking for many radio/spoken-word feature audio people, Reaper WITHOUT breakout effect lanes was MUCH better. The last ever Reaper without breakout effect lanes was version 2.58, rel 15th March 2009. I am worried that one day, I will no longer be able to use this ver of Reaper. My Q: In current
Asked by Glen (65.49.2.x) on January 10 2014, 5:47am
Reply on January 10 2014, 2:46pm:
    If you mean envelopes having their own lanes, added in 3.0, you can disable this option in Preferences/Editing Behavior/Editing display. If you have lanes active, it won't remove their separate lanes, but it'll prevent newly created envelopes from appearing in new lanes. For existing envelopes (existing projects), you can click on the envelope lane panel, the little envelope button, and choose "move to media lane".
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Question: Regarding Sublime vs. vim, Sublime has a "vintage mode" so vim keys/modes will work, plus you get the bennies of Sublime. :)
Asked by Will (70.173.80.x) on January 7 2014, 4:20am
Reply on January 7 2014, 4:57pm:
    Yeah that's cool, but I often just fire up vim from within the terminal/msysgit/etc... oh and it's already installed everywhere and free.
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Question: Ever read about temporal hierarchical memory algorithms? Like Numenta's bit.ly/1cwf0s3 ? I personally think this class of algorithm will revolutionize AI...Any thoughts?
Asked by raymond (67.172.42.x) on January 4 2014, 4:17pm
Reply on January 7 2014, 4:58pm:
    Neato, but my limited comprehension says it looks like normal neural nets.
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Question: do you use xcode data formatters with WDL_Strings? asarazan.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/data-formatters-in-xcode-or-ho...
Asked by olilarkin (81.100.230.x) on January 4 2014, 4:15pm
Reply on January 7 2014, 4:58pm:
    Ah no, any way to make them automatically included for classes? if you could specify them within ifdefs or comments that would be nice.
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Question: Are you cooking EEL3? o_0
Asked by gio (79.131.41.x) on January 3 2014, 10:08pm
Reply on January 3 2014, 10:49pm (edited at January 3 2014, 10:50pm):
    EEL 2.01 maybe? :) Or just EEL2 v1.1..
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Question: Alot of snow makes Justin a happy/sad panda?
Asked by Haze (153.2.247.x) on January 3 2014, 12:28pm
Reply on January 3 2014, 5:36pm:
    Happy, but I need a sled.
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Question: Do you think you'd ever be able to be an employee or would you end up being sarcastic to a PHB, etc. (or were you previously)?
Asked by Will (70.173.80.x) on December 31 2013, 7:41am
Reply on January 2 2014, 12:16am:
    Yes and yes, I guess?
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Question: ...do is somehow terribly unbalanced. Provide your wisdom, can't wait to read this one. (Oops, that was longer than I thought, sorry)
Asked by gio (79.131.45.x) on December 26 2013, 8:26am
Reply on December 28 2013, 3:25pm:
    See below =)
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