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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] get that good [at programming]? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012705 Asked by hn-anon (76.69.68.x) on December 23 2009, 8:12pm Reply on December 24 2009, 9:57am: Haha... errr Comment... Question: What's your most hated perseverative coding-mistake? Asked by Nico (87.78.73.x) on December 23 2009, 5:14pm Reply on December 24 2009, 9:57am: This is sort of a crappy answer, but probably not testing things thoroughly enough -- so cockiness, I suppose ("that code will TOTALLY work."). Comment... Question: Why don't you code projects for linux? Asked by admin (96.255.209.x) on December 23 2009, 4:24pm Reply on December 24 2009, 9:56am: Hmm, I've done some stuff, such as NINJAM, for linux. Generally it's not an enjoyable platform to dev on. Offscreen rendering in X11/GTK/etc is a pain, generally. No easy way to create a surface that you can both manipulate pixels, and draw on using OS primitives (such as text drawing). If someone wants to finish swell/gtk, I might start developing more on Linux ;) Comment... Question: Who is Oscar? Asked by Will (75.23.212.x) on December 23 2009, 3:20pm Reply on December 23 2009, 4:12pm: Probably either my nephew or a Saint Bernard? Comment... Question: How do you keep a parent window without xp theme and all the child windows xp themed? just curious... 8) Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on December 23 2009, 11:09am Reply on December 23 2009, 4:12pm: Dunno, maybe by manually enabling it for the children? Comment... Question: On the same note, is your wife a leet programmer as well? Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on December 23 2009, 10:43am Reply on December 23 2009, 4:11pm: Nope, she's a badass with a chef's knife, though... Comment... Question: Does your wife use Reaper? Asked by James (68.225.40.x) on December 23 2009, 10:35am Reply on December 23 2009, 4:11pm: No, but she has no need for it. My sister, on the other hand, uses PTLE. Barf. It's not right. Comment... Question: Thoughts on Songbird? Asked by roberttheiii (192.249.47.x) on December 23 2009, 9:10am Reply on December 23 2009, 4:09pm: Songwhat? jk. Not really, no. Comment... Question: You haven't upload any pictures onto your "pics" site for a long time...why? (I like all the galleries, so please...) Asked by Dave (222.90.231.x) on December 22 2009, 7:55pm Reply on December 23 2009, 4:08pm: Lazy I guess. Snapease was supposed to encourage me too, but I guess I end up programming or playing music more than taking pictures... Comment... Question: Considering win32 GUI apps are so centered around one big-ass wndproc switch(), how does one write custom cross-plat GUIs. Asked by Will (75.23.212.x) on December 22 2009, 6:48pm Reply on December 23 2009, 4:07pm: One way is to use SWELL.. Another would be to abstract out the application logic from the wndproc.. I prefer the former. Comment... Question: I have a classic ETW for fileio that work great in real-time with winxp/2k. In win7 seems to turn to buffered mode. Advise plz? Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on December 22 2009, 10:09am Reply on December 22 2009, 4:51pm: no idea, outside of my area of expertise... Have you tried running as administrator to see if that improves things? Comment... Question: I want to scroll text like winamp ticker! How to do it? Asked by ruchira (202.129.233.x) on December 22 2009, 12:06am Reply on December 22 2009, 8:11am: You mean in its taskbar button, or do you mean the title display in the main UI? For the taskbar button, just a timer and string mangling and SetWindowText() ought to do the trick. Comment... Question: www.thinkingparallel.com/2007/03/06/c-vs-c-a-checklist-from-a-c-... Asked by Will (75.23.217.x) on December 21 2009, 6:57pm Reply on December 21 2009, 10:22pm: Most of the items in the "pro" list I'd consider "cons". :/ Comment... Question: Have you ever considered the new features of C# as they relate to productiveness in coding (not the gay runtime, just language) Asked by Will (75.23.217.x) on December 20 2009, 9:31pm Reply on December 20 2009, 9:54pm: Hmm, what features do you speak of? Comment... Question: How much wood would a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood ? Asked by Chuck (150.101.96.x) on December 20 2009, 8:19pm Reply on December 20 2009, 9:27pm: a lot of fucking wood, I'm told. Comment... Question: by putting certain web page details in such small font, are you discriminating against people with poor vision? Asked by andrew (24.56.197.x) on December 20 2009, 2:34pm Reply on December 20 2009, 7:28pm: hmm depends on what your browser font is set to... Comment... Question: Do you play background music when coding? Asked by countach (80.37.78.x) on December 20 2009, 2:25pm Reply on December 20 2009, 7:28pm: A lot of the time, yeah.. usually variations of rock, sometimes jazz... Comment... Question: Do you have a set schedule for programming/work time vs. social/wife time? How do you force a balance? Or is it natural? Asked by Will (75.23.217.x) on December 20 2009, 12:14pm Reply on December 20 2009, 7:28pm: Not really at this point. Generally I code whenever possible when my wife isn't dragging me away. Having said that, the dragging me way is a very good thing, otherwise I'd completely overwork myself. Comment... Question: where is your list of suggested topics for askfj? i don't see it on the home page, or any clear link for it. Asked by andrew (24.56.197.x) on December 20 2009, 8:06am Reply on December 20 2009, 11:00am: It's right above the "ask" field. "Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, etc." Comment... Question: has askjf turned out pretty much as you had expected? did you expect so much of the questions to be programming related? Asked by andrew (24.56.197.x) on December 18 2009, 5:16pm Reply on December 19 2009, 12:24pm: More or less, yeah! I was hoping for lots of programming related stuff (as it is the first in my list of suggested topics). Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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