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Question: have you checked out this new site: www.gigitt.com for musicians?
Asked by Justin (173.55.71.x) on December 13 2009, 10:20pm
Reply on December 15 2009, 6:31pm:

No, but that's very much "coming soon" so what's there to see? Comment...

Question: Is there any particular reason for not compiling reaper with native unicode support?
Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on December 11 2009, 8:38pm
Reply on December 12 2009, 6:33pm:

It started out from wanting to have Win98 compatibility... tho that's getting less relevant as time goes on, without a doubt. Generally speaking I'm quite used to using char * for my strings... Comment...

Question: Do you think this hurt? cdn.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/jerseyshorepunch.gif...
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on December 11 2009, 10:42am
Reply on December 11 2009, 1:10pm:

Ouch.. whiplash.. Comment...

Question: What do you think of OllyDbg (www.ollydbg.de)? It reminds of your softwares: small, fast, powerful and low footprint.
Asked by Fergo (200.17.243.x) on December 10 2009, 11:04am
Reply on December 11 2009, 1:11pm:

Haven't used it. Sounds good in theory somewhat? Comment...

Question: Justin, you were in my dream last night....dreamt you were in a elementary hallway, sitting on a desk and coding... weird huh?
Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on December 10 2009, 7:05am
Reply on December 11 2009, 1:11pm:

Strange. Comment...

Question: Is there to be a linux port of snapease sometimes?
Asked by andrej (84.245.68.x) on December 9 2009, 3:06pm
Reply on December 9 2009, 6:03pm:

I'd need to make SWELL target GTK or something. I've started on it at times, but in general offscreen drawing is sort of a mess on X11, to my knowledge. Comment...

Question: So are you going to make anything revolutionary again? Now that reaper is in a stable v3.x
Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on December 9 2009, 7:01am
Reply on December 9 2009, 6:03pm:

No revolutionary ideas at the moment but if that changes I'll of course let everybody know... Comment...

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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