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Ask Justin Frankel No reasonable question unanswered since 2009! Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, etc. Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead. Name: Ask: Human (enter yes): [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

Question: How did you become an expert at programming. And also what programming languages do you like? Asked by Vivek (202.83.19.x) on September 14 2015, 8:14am Reply on September 14 2015, 2:19pm: I'm an amateur! At this point I find Javascript to be sort of the most enjoyable, but I'm much better at C and C++. PHP is also a good time. Perl has a certain minimalist elegance that I like too, but I'm really terrible with it. Comment... Question: Did it really sound terrible, or was it placebo because you knew about the rounding errors? Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 11 2015, 9:34pm Reply on September 12 2015, 4:42pm: Terrible is subjective, but let's just say non-transparent... Comment... Question: On Sept 3 2009 on here you said you have nitrane source on a CD-R. Were you lying then or lying now? haha :P Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 8 2015, 10:56pm Reply on September 9 2015, 5:47pm (edited at September 10 2015, 2:37pm): When I moved to NY I got rid of / destroyed a lot of old things (whether there was an old CD-R with Winamp code on it, I have no idea -- but I can tell you with certainty now that I don't have anything). Also: Who cares? It was a bunch of optimizations for CPUs which nobody uses anymore, and modern CPUs crush it. Also the MMX optimizations, for example, involved a lot of integer rounding errors that made it sound terrible. Comment... Question: Would it be interesting to rethink the way DAW�s have traditionally drawn graphics by implementing more GPU processing? I have the feeling that if the graphics and audio �fields� merge a little more lot�s of new user interface capabilities and workflow paradigms would emerge. How would a DAW feel like if it was built around GPU accelerated graphics? (Editing Asked by Oblong (92.250.121.x) on September 6 2015, 11:25pm Reply on September 7 2015, 2:43am: I don't think it would be that interesting, the graphical rendering portion isn't really the bottleneck, generally, and also sending lots of data to the GPU has more potential to interrupt audio, IMO. Comment... Question: *sigh* how do you have the highschool email program still up on 1014, but nitrane code only exists on a failing CD-R in storage somewhere? isn't that a bit ironic that the bits that gave you everything you have are least coddled? haha :P Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 6 2015, 5:33am Reply on September 6 2015, 7:10pm: I destroyed all copies of Winamp code that I had when I left AOL, it wasn't mine to keep! Comment... Question: Did you highschool email program use any of the Netware APIs, or did it just read/write to a central shared file on a network drive? Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 5 2015, 4:18am Reply on September 5 2015, 5:48am: It was just filesystem based, the code is mostly here. (and it is terrible) Comment... Question: What DAW (besides Reaper) are you most impressed with lately? Updates frequency, proper priority, direction in which the software is heading and all that jazz. Asked by Chris (159.205.22.x) on September 4 2015, 9:19pm Reply on September 5 2015, 5:48am: I don't really look at the others much. Comment... Question: Why are you doing more interviews lately? Suddenly all chatty! :) I enjoyed this one: youtube.com/watch?v=oMz4uBxoEYo Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 3 2015, 9:34pm Reply on September 4 2015, 6:53am: Just happened to get requests from nice people in town... :) Comment... Question: I code shitty C# winform apps in Visual Studio so Design/Designer View is where the app's GUI is created/modified by dragging and dropping. I'd love to see the environment that allows you to write code and modify REAPER's GUI. Please??? Asked by Digaldeman (99.173.156.x) on September 3 2015, 5:39am Reply on September 3 2015, 7:28pm: We don't really have that, other than visual studio's dialog editor for designing dialog boxes... Comment... Question: Can you share (record) your screen while you code for a few seconds? Show us the code view as well as the design view. Please, please, please? Asked by Digaldeman (99.173.156.x) on September 2 2015, 7:19pm Reply on September 2 2015, 8:55pm (edited at September 2 2015, 8:56pm): Heh I was thinking actually I might have something that would be fun to show. Having said that, I code in various environments from xcode 6 to VC6 to VS2013 to vim, so if I did do it it would just be a random snapshot and not indicative of all things... Also, design view?! What's that? Comment... Question: Thanks for maintaining lwa.blorp.com ... Is that a question? Asked by Hugh / iomegajaz (203.8.131.x) on September 2 2015, 4:23am Reply on September 2 2015, 8:56pm: Sure haha it's silly but happy to be able to have preserved it. Comment... Question: Roughly how many lines of code is Reaper now? Asked by PunkyBrewster (69.212.228.x) on September 1 2015, 6:25pm Reply on September 1 2015, 6:53pm: reaper.exe, not including WDL/, around 350k I think, including blank lines and comments and everything. Comment... Question: Did you see San Andreas? How'd you feel about seeing your old city wiped out? Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on September 1 2015, 4:10am Reply on September 1 2015, 2:06pm: I didn't, but I enjoyed the video game immensely. Comment... Question: What would be the hardest part of recreating the crusFX with RPi, win10 and REAPER? Do you dabble in hardware projects these days? Asked by Colin (121.45.153.x) on August 31 2015, 9:28pm Reply on September 1 2015, 2:06pm: Would be pretty easy, though I'd need to make EEL2 target ARM, which would be tricky to do efficiently, at least the way EEL2 is designed. At the moment the only way it can work on ARM is by running bytecode, which is quite slow. Comment... Question: justin, is writing a new OS for pc, laptop ect from scratch, geared mostly for music such a mammoth task? Asked by fixerdave (92.28.249.x) on August 31 2015, 2:00pm Reply on September 1 2015, 2:05pm: Yeah, it would be. Linux would be the way to go there, I'd think. Comment... Question: "Other mechanisms"? Telepathy? Smoke signs? Messenger pidgeons? Sending singing telegram Playboy bunnies? :) Asked by Marconi (46.114.106.x) on August 30 2015, 10:16pm Reply on August 31 2015, 1:38am: You get the general idea! Comment... Question: Thank you for abiding by the anti trust laws Asked by ajawamnet (69.251.129.x) on August 30 2015, 4:27pm Reply on August 31 2015, 1:39am: Riiiight... Comment... Question: Did you ever talk to Tony Million? Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on August 29 2015, 3:55pm Reply on August 30 2015, 1:33am: On IRC I think, way back when. Comment... Question: Can you give an example of something you just aren't able to do? www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2015/september/virtual-real... Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on August 28 2015, 9:01pm Reply on August 30 2015, 1:35am (edited at August 30 2015, 1:48am): (in case the link is truncated http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2015/september/virtual-reality-of-john-carmack) Thanks for the article link. Umm, lots I guess, but where would I begin? I can't turn left. Also I have trouble writing even halfway decent happy music. Edit: I can't embrace GTK+, so I've resorted to targeting GDK: Comment... Question: How do you communicate with the other team members (JeffOS, Schwa, etc)? Do you use Skype? How often do you have meetings? Asked by Digaldeman (99.173.156.x) on August 27 2015, 10:02pm Reply on August 30 2015, 1:34am: Mostly IRC, but also Skype, meatspace, email, and other mechanisms. Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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