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Question: I can see why you don't want to be in the corporate world! I've been a developer 12 years, mostly fixing bugz and i know nothin
Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on December 8 2009, 10:22am
Reply on December 8 2009, 12:16pm:

Fixing bugs is a pretty standard part of software development, heh. But yeah, corporate environments aren't so great for the creative side. Comment...

Question: What do you think of VLC Media Player? Done anything on it? Thought of giving it a bad-ass playlist manager?
Asked by roberttheiii (71.235.42.x) on December 8 2009, 10:15am
Reply on December 8 2009, 12:15pm:

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Question: How many years have you been programming?
Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on December 8 2009, 8:08am
Reply on December 8 2009, 12:14pm:

I played around with the Ataris of my older brothers as a kid, but I didn't really start programming until about 1993 or so, using Turbo Pascal and then soon after Turbo C++. Comment...

Question: When I click some mp3 files, a CD cover picture can be shown in the explorer's preview area, where was the picture? in mp3 file?
Asked by Dave (222.90.231.x) on December 8 2009, 1:21am
Reply on December 8 2009, 12:13pm:

It would probably be embedded in ID3v2 tags. Comment...

Question: Would you ever consider writing your own text on your DSP methods?
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on December 7 2009, 11:52am
Reply on December 8 2009, 12:13pm:

I'm not really that great at DSP ;) Comment...

Question: I do you ever wanna go back to school?
Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on December 7 2009, 11:26am
Reply on December 7 2009, 11:43am:

Occasionally, but I quickly realize how much patience I lack... Comment...

Question: How many (c++) programmers are there working for reaper now?
Asked by Medy (117.136.25.x) on December 7 2009, 11:11am
Reply on December 7 2009, 11:42am:

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Question: What do you think of functional programming/languages (i.e. haskell)
Asked by dude (144.122.71.x) on December 7 2009, 2:34am
Reply on December 7 2009, 8:57am:

I've never tried to build anything more than a hello-world level complexity app with that sort of language. Any good examples of it being used for applications? Comment...

Question: When will ReaPhone, OS for iPhone see the light of day? :o)
Asked by mrelwood (80.222.33.x) on December 6 2009, 10:35pm
Reply on December 7 2009, 8:56am:

Hahaha.. no thanks ;) Comment...

Question: What do you want for Christmas?
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on December 6 2009, 3:04am
Reply on December 7 2009, 8:56am:

Ummm... Maybe some good coffee? Comment...

Question: Do you hate C++ namespaces?
Asked by Joh Smith (208.120.234.x) on December 5 2009, 1:31pm
Reply on December 5 2009, 2:48pm:

I don't think I hate them (like I do operator overloading), however I do not use them. Generally speaking I think they just make things less explicit, which is annoying. Comment...

Question: are you not more excited by the open source Android platform? I just got one and i think it kicks the iphone in the you-know-whe
Asked by andrew (24.56.197.x) on December 5 2009, 7:41am
Reply on December 5 2009, 2:48pm:

Last I checked it's not completely open, so not really.. if it was the kind of thing anybody could write completely native code for, then I might care more... Comment...

Question: How many days do you charge iPhone once? Do you think iPhone the best cellphone?
Asked by Medy (117.136.25.x) on December 5 2009, 3:23am
Reply on December 5 2009, 7:32am:

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Question: Would you ever consider making this site feed a Twitter account, or too trendy?
Asked by roberttheiii (71.235.42.x) on December 4 2009, 7:31am
Reply on December 4 2009, 12:25pm:

Nah, I try to avoid other people controlling my shiz. Comment...

Question: (condensed dialog)
Asked by ruchira (202.129.234.x) on December 3 2009, 6:30pm
Reply on December 4 2009, 12:24pm (edited at December 4 2009, 12:26pm):

I didn't see a project or makefile in there. ;)

Ruchira says: @Gangsta, here is an example

shup.com/Shup/249705/BaseUIX-Example.rar

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Question: How's been coding the longest? u, christophe, schwa, or basu?
Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on December 3 2009, 9:16am
Reply on December 3 2009, 1:05pm:

Hell if I know.. an equally useless metric might be hours spent in front of the computer programming, lines produced, unique executable bytes produces, compression ratio of source code or executable bytes, umm... Comment...

Question: Hey Justin, I made a skining framework using lice & your ideas! here it is shup.com/Shup/249108/BaseUIX.zip
Asked by ruchira (202.129.234.x) on December 3 2009, 6:41am
Reply on December 3 2009, 8:39am:

What, no example project file/makefile/etc? :) Comment...

Question: When you code do you see code in your head? Like Hugh Jackman's character in the movie Swordfish?
Asked by Gangsta (66.184.75.x) on December 2 2009, 7:10pm
Reply on December 3 2009, 8:39am:

No, just enormous jugs! Comment...

Question: What do you think of this guy? video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4913196365903075662... Give it at least 10 mins. :-)
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on December 2 2009, 9:44am
Reply on December 3 2009, 8:39am:

Rad.. I only gave it a few minutes, but still... Comment...

Question: Hi, Justin! Just imagine that for some reason you are can't programming anymore. What would you do?
Asked by Alex (89.207.47.x) on December 2 2009, 12:19am
Reply on December 2 2009, 7:45am:

Playing music
Bike riding
Photography
R/C airplane/helicopter flying
Real airplane flying (always wanted to go do that)

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